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Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2015: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development

… degradation listed are coastal development and sprawl, chemical contamination, marine litter, marine noise, invasive … private sector Ongoing Water use efficiency (domestic, industrial, agricultural) Energy use efficiency Rate of … the pollution in the Mediterranean is due to inefficient industrial processes and poor management of waste. Apart from …
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Assessing the international forest regime

… pulp are traded internationally,” while “6-7% of global industrial roundwood output is currently traded.”32 While … of forest land, accounting for an estimated 0.5% of global industrial production.51 By establishing national and … stems from the fact that some timber products, such as chemical extracts, are not readily recognizable specimens of …
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ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime

… without permit or contrary to permission. Establish industrial forest factory, sawmill, Forest Products & … fishery products; Posting to establish new fishing lots or industrial fishing in the open access areas; Exporting and … Destroying water quality in all forms, poisoning, using chemical substances, disposing of solid and liquid wastes …
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Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromocyclododecane

… in Annex F of the Convention. January 2011. European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and PlasticsEurope, 2013. … management options for HBCDD”, SWEREA (Scientific Work for Industrial Use) report 09/52. Suzuki, S. and Hasegawa, A., …
27 May 2026 Document

Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… and of dangerous activities, including the operation of chemical factories and waste-collection sites. The … The WHO defines the environment as “all the physical, chemical and biological factors external to a person, and all …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges

… of cumulative anthropogenic GHG emissions since the pre-industrial era have been stored either on land (in plants and … and duration of flooding events, and negative physical and chemical changes in low flow periods (<0.85 cubic … per year (Marulli & Mallarach, 2005). Rapid urban and industrial sprawl in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, …
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Depend on nature: Ecosystem services supporting human livelihoods

… to 135 trillion by 2050 (World Bank, 2004b). Today’s industrial economies consume unsustainable quantities of … without converting more land to cultivation, reducing chemical inputs, and making crops more nutritious. These … depleted predatory fish communities to 10% of their pre-industrial biomass (Myers and Worm, 2003). While the direct …
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Text of the Standard Material Transfer Agreement

… for food and agriculture. Such purposes shall not include chemical, pharmaceutical and/or other non-food/feed industrial uses. 6.2 The Recipient shall not claim any …
27 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

… active components for pharmaceutical products, potential industrial (chemical) applications, and useful genes and their …
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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security

… and cause severe economic damage; - pollution, from chemical waste and agricultural inputs, has severely degraded … Over-harvesting of forest products 7.6 Desertification 7.7 Industrial logging/illegal logging 7.8 Over-grazing/cattle …
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