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Collaboration for resilience: How collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st century

… • environmental stress – from worsening damage to land, water, forests and fisheries, and • climate stress – … reorganise, critical to resilience. • Learning – and access to information and knowledge. Companies, communities … north-west Tanzania to eradicate tsetse fly and to open land for agricultural cash cropping. By 1985, the region was …
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Transboundary Air Pollution - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… sulphuric acid and nitric acid that is deposited back onto land through wet dispositions like rain, fog or snow, as well …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

… of a state consists of the following components: the land (including islands and rocks), internal waters, … to harvest the entire TAC, it must give other states access to the surplus of the TAC. The coastal state is … by ships through dumping and operational discharges, from land (through rivers) or from the exploitation of the non- …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

First report on the protection of the atmosphere

… and commercial vehicles (Euro 5 and Euro 6) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information … of haze (largely originating from recurrent forest and land fires in Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam), the … same Convention defines the territory of a State to be the land areas and adjacent territorial waters. The airspace …
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Women’s participation and gender considerations in country representation, planning and reporting to the BRS Conventions

… conservation and sustainable development, limiting women’s access to, control over and benefits from resources and … is growing vegetables and fruits for consumption on the land, in the land where cotton and tobacco plantations were until 1995. As …
25 May 2026 Document

IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 - A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites

… Our Place World Heritage who have provided extensive access to their collections of stunning photos of World … Nepal Chitwan National Park 29 Mali Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) 30 Costa Rica Cocos Island National Park … Benin / Burkina Faso / Niger 29 Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali 32 p Comoé National Park, Côte …
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Special Rapporteur on the Environment_2016 Report

… water”.12 25. Climate change will compound the problem of access to safe drinking water, currently denied to about 1.1 … are potentially affected by climate change, including food access, utilization, and price stability”.15 It is very … States. Global warming expands ocean waters and melts land-based ice, causing sea levels to rise. Long before …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Marine plastic debris and microplastics – Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change

… of Action for the Protection of the Environment from Land-based Activities GPML Global Partnership on Marine … Litter prevention from land-based sources - GPA … their inclusion; (ii) Providing and protecting a right to access to relevant information on marine plastics, including …
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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 … and makes sure that humans, animals and plants have access to fresh water over the entire year. IUCN is working …
25 May 2026 Document

Volta River Basin Ghana & Burkina Faso - Transboundary water management through multi-level participatory governance and community projects

… of natural resources contributing to water scarcity, land degradation and the siltation of river channels. Despite … resources promoted integrated basin management, equitable access, water for nature and international cooperation. That … and rice cultivation. An estimated 1,137 people now have access to water for dry-season farming; m Approximately 16 …
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