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WTO Panel Report on the "EC-Biotech" Case: Considerations for Trade and Development"
… particularly for developing countries with insufficient human and financial resources for swift yet effective … WTO Members to attain their chosen level of protection for human, animal or plant life or health. In this regard, the … Members to adopt and enforce measures necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, and the need to …
RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions
… areas no deeper than six metres at low tide, as well as human-made wetlands such as waste-water treatment ponds and … procedures, decisions and actions of public bodies and the rights and duties of the private sector, communities and … complex issues that exist between: • wetlands, people and human institutions; • land and water use within and beyond …
Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific
… world. There is therefore an increasing acceptance that human development cannot occur through preservation, but must … can help in this endeavour by increasing understanding of human behaviour in an environment like the Pacific where … developed countries to enhance their quantity of emission rights in their home country. Because of the fact that …
B2 - Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Resources in Practice
… prevention of significant harm. The requirements of vital human needs must be specifically kept in mind. An existing … development and inter-generational equity. Improvements in human health, poverty conditions, and human access to … The remedies available to the watercourse State(s) whose rights have been violated include an order for cessation of …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… objections to utilization based on, for instance, animal rights concerns. Key issues and questions for further … of serious or irreversible harm to the environment or human health in the absence of scientific certainty about … Applying precaution will usually involve restrictions on human actions: such restrictions (by definition) cannot be …
Need for non-regression in environmental law and policy
… in environmental law and policy ALARMED that the human ecological footprint exceeds global biocapacity and … that the principle of constant advancement of protected rights, and the non- regression of fundamental rights, must apply to the human right to a healthy environment; CONSIDERING that human …
Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks
… manage natural resources for the well-being of both human populations and the environment. … of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the maintenance of their ecosystem … even lack of respect for community and indigenous peoples’ rights. A multiplicity of different forms of recognition …
Landscape conservation law. Present trends and perspectives in international and comparative law.
… for the conservation of biodiversity and, indeed, for human wellbeing and development. Long before words like … determined by the action and inter-action of natural and human factors". Landscape, defined in these terms, has … Europe provided, many decades ago, in the field of human rights. When the United Nations started work on human rights, …
Glossary of terms for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements
… 1995, entered into force in 1999. Afforestation The direct human-induced conversion of land that has not been forested … to forested land through planting, seeding and/or the human-induced promotion of natural seed sources (UNFCCC). … civil society to support ten principles related to human rights, labour, anti-corruption and the environment. Global …
Case Study - Opportunities provided by the Nagoya Protocol in specific cases of the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and agricultural sector
… benefited from provisions related to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), e.g. co-inventorship and sharing of royalties … plans on develop- ing veterinary medicine and, later, on human drugs as well. IMPRINT Published by: Deutsche … exclusive and includes the possible development of human drugs Actors: CIMTECH, Parnell Pharmaceuticals En try p …