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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… rise to a multitude of legal mechanisms, including prior assessment of environmental harm, licensing or authorization … that flows from the concept of prevention is prior assessment of potentially harmful activities. Since the … considered that a properly conducted Environmental Impact Assessment might serve as a standard for determining whether …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… with this Protocol ................. 243 Article 31 Assessment and Review … and not the one that acquires them. In other words, the risk addressed by PIC in the CBD context is legal … with the international patent system and the risk of undermining innovation. Another concept that was …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

State of Biodiversity in West Asia

… momentum over the past decade. Prior spatial planning and assessment of habitat destruction has been ignored and only … Nonetheless, further capacity-building efforts relating to risk assessment and the management of genetically modified …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India

… making. The present publication outlines a synthesis of assessment approaches and methodology for the three ecosystem … EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EMCaB Environmental Management Capacity Building … ecosystem management and invest in conservation for its risk management value and economic Building upon the …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

UNEP Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… climate change. The IPCC’s findings, set out in its First Assessment Report in 1990, provided the scientific basis for … develop? �� The pre-negotiation phase also involves the assessment of existing legal regimes. This often includes a … document relating to the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety at …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Guide for Negotiators of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… climate change. The IPCC’s findings, set out in its First Assessment Report in 1990, provided the scientific basis for … develop? �� The pre-negotiation phase also involves the assessment of existing legal regimes. This often includes a … document relating to the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety at …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Guide for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements

… climate change. The IPCC’s findings, set out in its First Assessment Report in 1990, provided the scientific basis for … develop? �� The pre-negotiation phase also involves the assessment of existing legal regimes. This often includes a … document relating to the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety at …
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Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas

… putting tradi tional prac tices and manage ment systems at risk, without substi tuting effec tive new rules. This can … nity insti tu tions playing their roles or is there a risk of raising false expec ta tions? Is the commu nity … commu ni ties depend on, and which would other wise be at risk from destruc tive external forces. In other cases, …
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World Declaration on the Environmental Rule of Law

… systems that take due consideration of environmental risk and the vulnerability of social and economic systems in the face of ecological deterioration, d) Environmental assessment, incorporating multidimensional, polycentric …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

… � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 19 Article 6: Assessment and review of control measures�� � � � � � � � � � … that such limited information reported by parties puts at risk the current exclusion of process agent uses of … Protocol Noting with concern that there is a serious risk that, for some parties operating under paragraph 1 of …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere