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UN Environment Policy : Promoting Greater Protection for Environmental Defenders

… have defined environmental activities related to land and environmental construction and development … by greater competition for natural resources communities' land by private, business or state actors at n in search of a … human rights relating to the environment, water, air, land, environmental human rights defenders as “defenders …
13 Aug 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work

… between water, energy and food (or the management of land for food, fodder, and fuel production) – the nexus – has … of Sussex, UK. • Tira Foran, Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia. • Stephen Biggs, … resources ‘commons’ such as water, air, forests and land or even minerals span an ownership spectrum with shades …
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Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… guidance to the financial mechanism; (b) mechanisms; (c) land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF); and (d) compliance, … overlay of common law regarding nuisance, negligence, and land law. Although such a vast array of relevant bodies and …
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Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 6 Cultural heritage -- Wetlands -- a cultural landscape

… tained the terraces over 2,000 years, creating a cultural land- scape of such beauty that the area was accepted as a … In many parts of the world there are examples of wet- land landscapes that fishermen and seafood gather- ers have … regulations by a number of countries to conserve cultural land- scapes, the adoption of the European Landscape …
13 Aug 2026 Document

Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty

… to agriculture, the most important ones include changes in land use, replacement of traditional varieties by modern … intensification, increased population, poverty, land degradation and environmental change (including climate … large inputs of labour and time, and vast areas of land to contain adequate sam- ples of the genetic variability …
13 Aug 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Risks from Maritime Traffic to Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea. Identification of Issues and Possible Responses

… on the part of the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, or IUCN concerning the legal status of any … reflect those of Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea or IUCN. This publication has been made possible … by funding from the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea. Published by: IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and …
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Water Management and Stewardship

… 76 4.7 Land … taking stock of corporate water behaviour Discussion Paper land management. For water stewardship to work, private … catchment/basin level, including for medium/long-term. • land/planning laws: allocation of land and terms of occupation/ ownership. • Compliance regime: …
13 Aug 2026 Literature

Sharing governance! A practical guide for marine protected areas in West Africa

… success or failure, humanity and the planet need as much land as possible that is unspoiled (or nearly un-spoiled), to … but have not benefited from conservation efforts like the land surface of the planet. Overfishing, the use of … the coastal zones, the pressure of population growth, land ownership and competition between different business …
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Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… then Principal Legal Adviser and Chief, Biodiversity and Land Law and Governance Unit at the UNEP-Division of … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities, National Cleaner Production Centres, … with Article 3, paragraph 8 (b) Those Parties for which land-use change and forestry (all emissions by sources and …
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MEA Negotiator’s Handbook

… Antarctica, for example is considered terra nullius or land that is not the sovereign territory of any country, like … • climate change • international waters • ozone • land degradation • persistent organic pollutants Capacity … meeting, the Instrument was amended to allow POPs and Land Degradation as focal areas. • Representatives of the GEF …
13 Aug 2026 Document in Environmental Governance