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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… implementation requires careful calibration at the local level to ensure the environmental gains and social justice … the international intention of ABS may falter at the local level, thus undermining its ability to implement Article … (IUCN) defines a protected area as “an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of …
Water Management and Stewardship
… opportunities and issues to which water stewardship gives rise, as well as identifying expectations that are misplaced … them. As the Action Plan of the UN and World Bank-led High Level Panel on Water notes: ‘Pressure on water is rising, and … that are not economically exploitable, or flows to the sea. 75 4. What companies do not talk about, or talk about …
An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… of the ABS concept at the regional, national and local level in the future. IUCN considers ABS, the third objective … UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNDRIP United Nations Declaration on the Rights of … legislations the terms and conditions that would give rise to a case of so-called misappropriation. Article 15 sets …
Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with mercury or mercury compounds
… التابع لأمانة اتفاقية بازل والوكالات المتعاونة فيه (BCRC-SEA)، والذي يمكن استخدام التقرير الصادر عنه كمرجع عملي.( ) 76 … Beijing, China. Honda, S. et al, 2006. “Current Mercury Level in Cambodia - with Issue on Waste Management”, NIMD … Hylander, L.D. and Meili, M., 2005. “The Rise and Fall of Mercury: Converting a Resource to Refuse …
A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows
… throughout the term of the project have achieved the level of legal excellence expected of the IUCN Environmental … of secret traditional knowledge and more hits. Q will rise with c but not indefinitely as diminishing returns set … (ISA) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) enjoys monopoly power over the seabed. Even …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… and Kate Studd Chapter 4 Enhancing rights and local level accountability in 97 water management in the Middle … laws and customs, generation by generation, that give rise to the rights asserted. The laws and customs may have … acknowledgment of indigenous rights, including land and sea rights, subsistence rights and self-determination, is …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… individuals or user groups re-evaluate their share of, and level of control over, strategic resources. This can create … elites or foreign entities) privatization also gives rise to a much more intimate form of exclusion when young … 2009; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 1982). Principle 11: Common heritage and common …
Food and Agriculture Organization (2017), IPPC Procedure Manual for Standard Setting
… (3) Feasibility of implementation at the global level (includes ease of implementation, technical complexity, … to the world’s second largest crop, wheat, continues to rise. The killer fungus, Ug99, causes stem rust disease, … These will deal with minimizing pest movement by sea containers and air containers and reducing the pest risk …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… a contribution to Rio+20. The report builds upon the High Level Expert Meeting on the “New Future of Human Rights and … effort by the OHCHR and UNEP. It is a result from the High Level Expert Meeting on the “New Future of Human Rights and … Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution (Barcelona, June 10, 1995), arts. 15 …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… What are the important questions to be asked at the level of situation analysis? Where do we lack knowledge that … of Florence Nuoffer IUED-Geneva Table of contents 1 The Rise of Socially Responsible Conservation … terms, relegating monetary indicators to the second level. 18 Institutional economics focuses its analysis on the …