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Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group

… rights and protect their environment, and a person whose loss continues to be felt by their family, their community … was also an advisor to the Chico mendes institute for Biodiversity Conservation. He had opposed environmental … those consequences include, inter alia, ‘the gradual loss of control over indigenous lands, territories and …
17 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

The Role of legal instruments to support Green low-emission and climate-resilient development - A guidebook on assessing, selecting and implementing legal instruments

… Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants; –– National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan—Convention on … low- hanging fruit The scope of the Vietnamese Law on Biodiversity has been extended to cover climate change by the … leads to an overall weak- ening of the law in force and a loss of credibility and effectiveness of the particular legal …
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Land and water - the rights interface

… through the machinery and coercive power of the state.19 Loss of, or damage to, a land right or a water right is prima … Non-payment of such taxes may ultimately lead to the loss of a land right, but only if the entity to which the … land management has shaped and conserved high levels of biodiversity.150 As 148 See Swallow, B., Garritty, D.P. & van …
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Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas

… and action groups, focusing in particular on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of habitats and … Nonlinear applications involving mirrors can expect a 30% loss of signal at each point of reflection which will … can be far removed from what they measure with little loss of signal. The limits of optical, sonic and magnetic …
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Third report on the protection of the atmosphere

… 32 dealt with, inter alia, mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, finance, technology development and … Change 220 and the Convention on Biological Diversity (Biodiversity Convention), 221 provide for sustainable … sustainable development”. Article 1 of the Biological Biodiversity Convention states that: “The objectives of this …
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Handbook for the Preparation of Voluntary National Reviews (VNR)

… X X Water Sector Development Policy X X X X National Biodiversity Strategy X X X X Land Policy Act X X X X … old age, incapacity for work, unemployment, sickness and loss due to the death of a breadwinner. Everyone is entitled …
17 May 2026 Literature

Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual

… ƒ Land law ƒ Agriculture law ƒ Protected areas law ƒ Biodiversity law, including access to genetic resources ƒ … companies to compensate the upland communities for the loss of their livelihoods when shifting cultivation and … of all of this upfront investment, it will be a huge loss if your companies have to stop logging in concessions …
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Perspectives and guidelines on food legislation, with a new model food law

… and other texts. Their subject matters range from biodiversity to organic inspection to organic seed. Some are … prevention of harm to the environment, the maintenance of biodiversity and the protection of animal health, among … as well as the environment (the potential effects on local biodiversity from the unintended dissemination of such …
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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… and serious intimidation to community members, and the loss of food security. The NHRCT designated its Subcommittee … on the collective, stating that “Nature and its biodiversity, the environment and the national heritage are …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands

… threatens domestic poultry and human health as well as biodiversity (particularly avian). Collaborators, working … to development pressures has led to the increasing loss or degradation of wild ecosystems, which are the natural … aid control of future disease issues that affect wetland biodiversity, viability and livelihoods; 19. ADVOCATES the …
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