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Embedding the Environment in Sustainable Development Goals
… ly improving resource efficiency through more effi- cient production and recycling, reducing waste, and modifying … related to combating poverty, sustainable consumption and production, sustainable livelihoods, youth and education, … (NPP) - the net amount of solar energy converted to plant organic matter through photosynthesis. The NPP has been …
Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… map they created of their own island. The production of this map helped them to obtain an official … tu tions and tourist oper a tors. 136 See for example Plant and Hvalkof, 2001. Simeón Jiménez, an indig e nous … Protected Areas (see also Oviedo, 2002). 181 Roldan, 2002; Plant and Hvalkof, 2001. 182 Maldidier, 2000. 180 Do …
Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants
… aimed at restricting and ultimately eliminating their production, use, release and storage. The treaty, called the … POPs. • Once in force, it will ban immediately all production and use of the pesticides endrin and toxaphene in … is to be periodically reviewed. • It will limit the production and use of chlordane, hexachlorobenzene and mirex …
The Tacaná Watersheds - Developing untapped potential: Strengthening resilience through cross-sectoral collaboration
… 26% for human consumption and 10% for agribusiness. Coffee production and export plays an essential part in the … scarcity in the dry season is problematic for agricultural production, affecting community income generation as coffee … watersheds; • Supported the building of a water treatment plant and advised on how water can be recycled in the …
Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
… example, telling developers that they need to buy land and plant trees or gazette land as a Protected Area or take some … Article 18 concerns the protection of animal and plant species and provides that, if, having taking all … “concession agreements”, “host government agreements” and “production sharing agreements” are contracts between …
International environmental governance: An international regime for protected areas
… of air pollution in excess of the critical loads of many plant species,2 and there are both immediate and underlying … forests: these areas had often in effect been left out of production before but certification standardized and helped … areas are generally not designed or intended for the production of income. Their very name suggests that, …
The valuation of ecosystem services: Are the challenges too many to ensure the maintenance of ecosystem integrity?
… and the use of ecosystems through activities such as food production, aquaculture, transport, hunting, mining, energy production, recreation and building on the other hand. One … the services coming from the original system. A filtration plant for instance replaces only a small part of what a …