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GUIDANCE on feasible flame-retardant alternatives to commercial pentabromodiphenyl ether - 2009 (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/INF24)
… and there are no single universal solutions for fire protection of materials and applications. 5 Even though there … and more effective and improved technologies for fire protection. In the light of this trend, a large number of … the list of toxic substances in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA, 1999). 1 BSEF, personal communication …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2014: A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… concerns 18 Significant concern 21 Critical 23 Threats 26 Protection and Management 27 Values 29 Conclusion 29 Next … The threats affecting those values ■ The effectiveness of protection and management The overall conservation outlook … The threats affecting those values ■ The effectiveness of protection and management Each of these elements is first …
Convention text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury
… the activities of the World Health Organization in the protection of human health related to mercury and the roles … means most effective in achieving a high general level of protection of the environment as a whole; (ii) “Available” … (i) The non-Party has measures in place to ensure the protection of human health and the environment and to ensure …
Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
… Phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) at refrigeration plant of “Frinko” 1,081,724 Phasing out of CFC-11 from … is an important means of risk prevention and environmental protection . As such, the GENASIS provides a model of … drug smuggling and organised crime . Customs and border protection officers constitute the front line of every …
Issues o compliance: Considerations for the international Regime on access and benefit sharing
… Programme (SPREP) has developed a “Model Law for the Protection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Innovations … established a second model law, “The Model Law for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of …
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… right to adequate food, poverty eradication, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development. … housing security, rural development, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development. … of promoting general welfare including environmental protection and consistent with States’ human rights …
Illegal Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horn: an Assessment Report to Improve Law Enforcement Under the Wildlife TRAPS Project
… under the custodianship of South Africa where better protection existed; this subspecies made a persistent and … mostly remained in private conservancies offering better protection), levels of illegal killing have sharply escalated …
Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application
… and its two daughter directives (Directive 2006/118/EC on Protection of Groundwater against Pollution and Deterioration … UNECE Water Convention UNECE Helsinki Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and … the Indus Water Treaty relating to the Baglihar hydropower plant, which was being constructed by India on the Chenab …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… 4 1.3 Ecosystem protection and management … both directorates in 2004; and plans for a waste treatment plant in the southern part of the region on the Austrian side … to protect a particularly species or type of vegetation; plant protection is generally achieved through protection of …