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Large Marine Ecosystems: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)
… boundaries used throughout the assessment: The Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) dataset, implemented … the need for better prioritization of interventions, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) embarked on the … from 2009 to 2015. TWAP objectives were to undertake global assessments of the five transboundary water systems to …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Principle 7 “States shall cooperate in a spirit of global partnership to conserve, protect and restore the … ecosystem. In view of the different contributions to global environmental degradation,States have common but … in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment and of the technologies and financial …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… of its use, and deploying nature-based solutions to global challenges in climate, food and development. IUCN … and best practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,200 … Ramsar site. The National Environmental Management Strategy of Lao PDR, effective up to 2020, emphasizes the …
The long and winding road: negotiating a treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
… Kristina Gjerde (IUCN), Isabel Seeger (IDDRI) A VAST GLOBAL COMMONS UNDER INCREASING PRESSURE Marine areas beyond … and exploitation. A TREATY TO SAFEGUARD THE HEALTH OF THE GLOBAL OCEAN The international community has become … Parties en- dorsed the audit of the Convention’s global strategy, which a report considering how the Convention could …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… rewarding them for their indispensable contribution to the global pool of genetic resources. So why are these rights … maize and other cereals in the 1960s and 1970s. While on a global scale, this contributed to a substantial increase in … Green Revolution, refer to section 1.2.1 of Lesson 1 (A Global Treaty for Food Security) and section 3.2.1 of Lesson …
Biodiversity for (Bio)technology under the Convention on Biological Diversity: bioprospecting partnership in practice
… in practice Jorge Cabrera Medaglia1 Published in IP Strategy Today, No 11, Biodevelopments, New York, 2004 1 … the INBio experience in Costa Rica, en : Protection of global biodiversity, Coverging Strategies, L.D. Guruswamy and …
Regulation of Freshwater at the Regional and Subregional Levels - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… parties as of June 2015. In 2003, the Convention became a global legal framework for transboundary water cooperation … Establishing a network of organizations interested in global river basin management, and facilitate exchanges of …