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World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 1: Wetlands: A natural safeguard against disasters

… wetlands to minimize the damage from disasters Defined as land areas that are flooded with water, either seasonally or …
25 May 2026 Document

Global Mercury Assessment

… was evaluated separately, with total releases to water and land totalling more than 800 tonnes per year. Deforestation … the atmosphere) and releases (mercury going into water and land), that is, those associated with human activities. The … Committee (INC) for more information on releases to land and water. The aquatic environment is the main route of …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 7 - Wetland products

… of invasive alien species, use of high levels of harmful agricultural chemicals, and the impact of conversion to other land uses. The need to tackle these problems was recognized …
25 May 2026 Document

Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 6 - Reservoirs of biodiversity

… faster than those from other ecosystems, as a result of land conversion and excessive water abstraction. Factsheet 6 …
25 May 2026 Document

CBD: Measures for Conservation and Sustainable Use - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Development and Environment, of Physical Planning, Land and Forest Management and of Agriculture, Animal …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation

… Act of 2003 requires offsets for impacts that result in land-use change to forested areas. The recently enacted … 19), including undertaking projects that may affect their land, territory or resources including mining and other … or the safeguarding of essential user interests in land use, and has statues or regulations, documenting 137 …
25 May 2026 Literature

Protected areas and other areas important for biodiversity in relation to environmentally damaging industrial activities and infrastructure development

… carefully their decision to dedicate and manage their land for conservation purposes. Australia’s position is that …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Aspects of Trans-boundary Snow Leopard Conservation in Central Asia

… of SPAs in the Central Tien Shan through regulating land-use in wildlife corridors and adjoining territories. … and corridors taking account of the interests of existing land-users; (iv) Provide technical and financial support to … or more protected areas and under different management and land uses, but still inter-connected, and which as a whole …
25 May 2026 Document

UNEP Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… seeks to bring together agriculture, forestry, fishery, land use and nature con- servation in new ways. The UN … conventions, atmo- sphere conventions, land conventions, marine pollution conventions, and chemi- �� … supported the US-led ‘Miami Group’ as all were major agricultural exporters. In the end, developing countries …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… seeks to bring together agriculture, forestry, fishery, land use and nature con- servation in new ways. The UN … conventions, atmo- sphere conventions, land conventions, marine pollution conventions, and chemi- �� … supported the US-led ‘Miami Group’ as all were major agricultural exporters. In the end, developing countries …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance