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Can carbon dioxide storage help cut greenhouse emissions?

… further. While the individual components of CCS are well developed, they still need to be integrated into full-scale … legal and regulatory environment also needs to be further developed. This must include agreed methods for estimating … if climate change is to be successfully addressed at least cost. For further information, see www.ipcc.ch. c18 …
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Chemicals for a sustainable future; Report of the EEA Scientific Committee Seminar (Copenhagen, 17 May 2017)

… of the impact of individual and mixtures of chemicals has developed gradually over the past 60-70 years. Nevertheless, … of major pollutants suggests that the societal cost is at least 10 % of the GDP (xxii,xlii). Other factors causing harm … the mechanisms of toxicity you would like to avoid, or at least which families or groups of chemicals do not possess …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts

… to Mediterranean and European countries, are being developed to support large CSP stations. However little … the most vulnerable to climate-induced impacts and are the least able to adopt adaptation measures. Energy scarcity and …
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Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues

… can be expected to increase in future in order to meet at least some of the increased demand for water storage. • … drop in GDP due to 1997- 1998 floods, partly because the country was unable to store and distribute water efficiently … water storage; Asia, Africa and Latin America have only developed 22%, 7% and 33% of their potential hydropower, …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan

… options, three main investment packages has been developed in this report as follows: 1.«Hima» Sustainable … 1 .1 CONTRIBUTING TO THE COUNTRY ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABLY PRESERVING ITS RANGELAND … grazing periods can be substantially increased (resp. at least two-fold and from 1 to 3 months) when adequate “Hima” …
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Aspects of Trans-boundary Snow Leopard Conservation in Central Asia

… was initiated by the President of the Kyrgyz Republic and developed in collaboration with the World Bank/Global Tiger … and 5 million small livestock (sheep and goats) in the country. Satellite collaring of argali has been carried out … Kul in June 2014. These were defined as containing at least 100 breeding age snow leopards, supporting adequate …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Mr. Michael Frost, Analysis on the situation of Environmental Human Rights Defenders

… (SLAPP) that occur with State complicity or at least disregard. 67% of HRDs murders in Asia were of EHRDs … EHRDs at risk • In almost every affected Latin American country, Government and corporate actors are involved in the … assessments (HRIA) by States and corporations should be developed with the active participation of EHRDs and …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Plant protection legislation

… of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or … million. To erase such a food deficit will involve at least doubling food production by the year 2000. This … more effective measures to improve plant protection may be developed and enforced 6/. 2. LEGISLATIVE TEXTS Knowledge of …
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Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China

… territory or geographic area, or by using the term “country” in this document, IUCN and ADB do not intend to … for the improvement of LD laws was derived from the model developed by the Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) of the … for environmental management. In this regard, there are at least three major categories of comprehensive environmental …
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International water governance: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems Vol. 1: International agreements compilation and analysis

… carried forward by an expanding network of regional and country offices, located principally in developing countries. … site listing and each Contracting Party shall designate at least one suitable wetland within its territory 4 … manner. The international watercourse shall be used and developed with a view of achieving optimal and sustainable …
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