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Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… Biodiversity with the United Nations Development Programme/Global En- vironmental Facility, and Patrick McGuire, who … CBD unless stated otherwise) DNA deoxyribonucleic acid GEF Global Environment Facility IGC WIPO Intergovernmental … rights to other levels may reflect a particular national strategy, indicating that ABS has been integrated into a …
The "Chemical & Waste Conventions": the Basel Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
… World Trade Organization Geneva, 15 November 2016 The Global environment & Trade www.brsmeas.org @brsmeas … Stockholm Convention: to respond to the need for global action on “POPs” i. e. chemicals that are “persistent, … & procedures yet to be adopted; Clearing-House Mechanism – strategy to be revised for 2017, information requested (BRS) …
Aspects contemporains du droit de l'environnement en Afrique de l'ouest et centrale
… par exemple, au Cameroun, les statistiques produites par Global Witness dans le cadre de l’observation indépendante : … du respect de la législation. 228 Voir sur cette question Global Forest Watch, qui rapportait que pour les 5 provinces … de l’ensemble des opérations dans ces régions. Voir Global Forest Watch, An Overview of Logging in Cameroon, WRI, …
The status of natural resources on the high-seas
… framework of UNCLOS 77 1.2. Hard law vs. soft law 79 1.3. Global and regional approaches 84 1.4. International … is well established. WWF and IUCN have both adopted a strategy of facilitating the establishment of networks of … of interest, the report reviews habitat characteristics, global distribution, associated fauna, exploitation value, …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… In this context, two approaches exist: the traditional strategy of command and control, and the use of economic or … Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the UNDP GEF (Global Environmental Facility). Furthermore, this publication … freshwater reserve – approximately 12 per cent of the global supply lies within its borders (World Resources …
Land and water - the rights interface
… and South Asia. World Bank, 2003. Water Resources Sector Strategy: Strategic Directions for World Bank Engagement … an agreement, and pending the entry to force of the only global instrument to address this issue, the 1997 United … Water Resources Management, TAC Background Paper No. 3, Global Water Partnership Technical Advisory Committee, p. 6. …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… Degradation and Drought 2nd Edition, November 2015 IUCN Global Drylands Initiative Land Degradation Neutrality: … Drought Second Edition 27/08/2015 With contributions from Global Drylands Initiative, CEM, WCEL, WCPA, CEC1 1 … which have been revised in line with the UNCCD 10 Year Strategy, which in turn has ensured greater alignment of the …
Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols
… NOx reducing additives may also have a role in a strategy to combat diesel vehicle NOx. Control Technologies … of episodic peak ozone levels; that, in addition, their global-scale oxidation in the presence of nitrogen oxides … are designed, other effects on the environment (e.g. global climate change) and on human health should also be …
Recognizing the indigenous territories as conservation areas in the Amazon Basin
… on the planet, for which it is a region of strategic global importance; BEARING IN MIND that the Amazon is shared … that they contain biomass of high value for regulating the global climate and that they guarantee the food and medicinal … play an important role in conserving biodiversity and as a strategy to face up to climate change; The World Conservation …
AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 10 - Guidelines on Avoidance of Introductions of Non-native Waterbird Species (TS No. 12)
… the wild is the most effective and least costly management strategy to reduce threats posed by biological invasions and … markets for international wildlife trade and 75% of the global trade in birds (Raymakers 2001). For many years, … from quarantine (G. Elliott, pers. comm.). An on-line Global Invasive Species Database …