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Household Waste Partnership
… Website: http://www.basel.int/tabid/5082/Default.aspx Environmental impacts of household waste: A significant part … • To enable the decoupling of economic growth and environmental impacts associated with the generation of … of the private sector for enhanced action to promote environmental sound management of wastes, including issues …
Safeguarding indigenous lands, territories and resources from unsustainable developments
… a working group coordinated by the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) to consult … efforts for strengthening tenure rights, reducing environmental degradation and enhancing conservation; and b. … governance in order to avoid interventions that negatively impact on the rights of indigenous peoples regarding the …
Directives pour l’élaboration d’une stratégie nationale de gestion des eaux de ballast (version française)
… au-delà de leur étendue indigène. Le Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) a constaté que durant le siècle passé, l’impact des espèces exotiques envahissantes a été … 2004. 152pp ECOLEX 2009. Online information service on environmental law. FAO, IUCN and UNEP. www.ecolex.org …
Issues o compliance: Considerations for the international Regime on access and benefit sharing
… of the issues related to ABS from social, economic and environmental perspectives so that the Regime, once adopted, … (UNEP). 2 Alexandre Kiss, “Reporting Obligations and Assessment of Reports”, in Ensuring Compliance with … agreements are part of international law and can have an impact on multilateral environmental agreements. 30 Some of …
Report on the technical assistance needs of developing country Parties and Parties with economies in transition for the implementation of the Basel Convention and the technical assistance available from developed country Parties and others
… country Parties and others I. Introduction 1. This assessment of the technical assistance needs of developing … for the monitoring of progress and for an analysis of the impact of the technical assistance programme. [3: … of the Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention, the environmental sound management of POPs and other hazardous …
Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… 151 pp. ISBN: 978-2-8317-1429-5 Produced by: IUCN Regional Environmental Law Programme, Asia, Bangkok, Thailand Cover … resources that could have an environmental or cultural impact on them.138The constitution further recognises the … activities. http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloa ds/vn_flegt_assessment_report _en.pdf Techera, E. (2010). Legal …
European charter on hunting and biodiversity
… represents a collective effort of governments, hunters and environmental organisations to discuss and facilitate … Recommendation 1689 (2004)1 regarding Hunting and Europe’s environmental balance on 23 November 2004 in Warsaw, Poland. … c) Understand and recognise the biological role and impact of indigenous predators on game species and take this …
Earth Rights: The Theory
… IUCN Academy of Environmental Law e-Journal Issue 2011 (1) Earth Rights: The … system. In the cases of severe or permanent environment impact, including the ones caused by the exploitation of … they “play the role of a moral touchstone – a standard of assessment and criticism for domestic institutions, a …
Closing Strategy - Ending Ivory Trade in Hong Kong
… actions against illegal ivory. This report presents an assessment of commercial ivory trade in Hong Kong. Market … On 27 June 2016, the Legislative Council’s Panel on Environmental Affairs discussed a proposal from the … Kong (UNEP-WCMC, CITES Trade Database), therefore, the impact of the ban on hunting trophies is primarily symbolic …
Moving towards effective implementation
… discourage new mercury-added products, unless there is an environmental or human health benefits Parties may propose … sound manner, incorporating, where appropriate, an assessment of the risks to human health and the environment … health benefits are likely to result from reduction of environmental levels of mercury through decreasing emissions …