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Guidance to Designated National Authorities on the operation of the Rotterdam Convention

… Chemin des Anémones CH – 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzer land Tel : (+41 22) 917 8177 Fax: (+41 22) 917 8082 E-mail : … Chemin des Anémones CH – 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva , Switzer land Tel: (+41 22) 917 8177 Fax: (+41 22) 917 8082 E-ma il : … environmental incident is defined as the contamination of land, water and/or air by a severely hazardous pesticide …
14 Aug 2026 Document

UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015

… of whom live in slums and areas close to contaminated land, landfills and hazardous waste dumping sites—are most … she says she had always had “an enormous love of water and land taught to me by my father”, an engineer. Her mother, a … reduce marine pollution of all kinds, particularly from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient …
14 Aug 2026 Document

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, … by ships through dumping and operational discharges, from land (through rivers) or from the exploitation of the non- …
14 Aug 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Strengthening the implementation of Farmers' Right in Guatemala

… 300 meters. The weather is diverse due to differences in land elevation. Location of Huehuetenango, Guatemala In the …
14 Aug 2026 Document 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 …
14 Aug 2026 Literature

Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… changing agricul- tural practices and loss of agricultural land. The use of genetically modified organisms in cen- tres … who is engaged in the conservation of genetic resources of land races and wild relatives of economic plants and their … or sell seeds for reproduction and replanting in their own land. Section 72 allows for the establishment of inventories …
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Invasive Alien Species - a threat to biodiversity

… of invasives. Invasive alien species also alter land-use and natural disturbance patterns (e.g. " res, insect … wash boats with hot, high pressure, tap water on the land-side before travelling to a new waterway. Let boat dry " …
14 Aug 2026 Literature

Champions of Water Governance - Leadership building for local to transboundary water cooperation

… integrate watershed management into local economic and land use plans, and to support the establishment and oper- … at the borders of the three countries about sustainable land and water use. In doing so, they could support the integration of water and land issues, using their capacity to organise and produce …
14 Aug 2026 Literature

Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities

… 2007). The causes of this process are manifold: changes in land use and carbon emis- sions, alterations in both … (AOGCMs), describ- ing the atmosphere, oceans, sea ice and land, and pos- sibly chemistry, the carbon and nutrient … an overall view of the marine area (and any adjacent land areas) and inte- gration across all sectors, including …
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The status of natural resources on the high-seas

… unproductive areas of the tropical ocean, distant from land, and greatest abundances are found in the coastal … separated. Deep-sea trenches are also often close to land where the wastes are created, such as mining tailings. … Important colonies of seabirds have been identified on land. It is far more difficult to ascertain the distribution …
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