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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
… involvement in land management decisions, land-use trade-offs and long-term goal setting. These are central … forest products 7.6 Desertification 7.7 Industrial logging/illegal logging 7.8 Over-grazing/cattle ranching 7.9 Invasive …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… of economic and ecological factors suggested some trade-offs for improving land allocation decisions and The … resource itself. Coverage: Global Topics: Bioprospecting, Trade, Incentive measures, Financial mechanisms, Valuation, … in most of Africa has been largely attributed to the illegal harvesting of ivory. The decision to ban all trade in …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… control (e.g. industrial polluters, wildlife smugglers, illegal occupiers) or to receive benefits or support (e.g. … social justice, or important aspects of sustainability). Trade-offs between competing values are not amenable to … empirical analysis, though scientific techniques can make trade-offs more transparent. Credible conclusions about the …
Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual
… standards to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in terrestrial animals and their products. … still occur regularly as a result of both legal and illegal movements. It is, therefore, important to familiarise … animals that are considered unfit to travel, and it is illegal to do so in many countries. This includes individuals …
European Union overseas coastal and marine protected areas - overview of coastal and marine conservation efforts in the European Union's overseas countries and territories and outermost regions
… ment of marine conservation efforts and combat- ting illegal activities in EU Overseas waters • Giving special … 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive … countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation • By 2030, …
The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… 14 2.1.4 The World Trade Organization's Basic Principles … 24 2.1.8 WTO Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) … Veterinary Office GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services GSP … farm animal production will not continue if they are made illegal, because they depend upon large manufacturers who are …
Energy law and sustainable development
… that characterize the debate over the liberalized trade sector and the environment sector. For proposals to … into the park which already faced intense pressures from illegal logging and slash-and-burn colonizing. While the … stick again in 2000, to the US it was again viewed as an illegal cartel. OPEC did move closer to the image of a …
From the MDGs to Sustainable Development for All - Lessons from 15 years of practice
… global partnership for development, with targets for aid, trade, and debt relief. (See Annex 2 for mDg goals, targets … attention to the impor- tance of making debt, aid and trade policies conducive to human development and advancing … that pressures from rapid population growth, poverty, illegal timber extraction and hunting had fueled extensive …
International environmental governance: An international regime for protected areas
… rejection on the basis of “double standards” or disguised trade conditionalities. These standards may also be relevant, … environmental law with other fields such as international trade or human rights.112 International Environmental … carry legal weight in many countries. For example it is illegal in European Community countries to sell food labelled …
Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts
… of unintentionally produced POP s, requiring some trade-offs for policy makers. There are technologies and … co- benefit cases occur in many more situations than the trade-offs situations and so the major focus in this chapter … Stockholm Convention and the Basel Convention to reduce illegal dumping of hazardous waste or the uncontrolled export …