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Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level

… FCPF Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (World Bank) GHG Greenhouse Gas ILO International Labour Organisation IUCN International … make up an estimated 18 percent of the total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the land use, land-use …
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Brexit: environment and climate change

… the EU’s policy on combating climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.16 15. As well as acting in areas affecting the … the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… representatives from 48 Asian and European countries to Gas flaring at oil drilling site on the Napo river, Amazone, … in terms of the protection of ecosystems and vegetation; greenhouse gas emissions; and emissions of acidifying … and atmospheric emissions, indicators include emissions of greenhouse gases, emissions of acidifying and eutrophying …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations”.1 Thus human-made climate change is a … policies and projects that aim at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other substances leading to climate …
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Invasive Alien Species - a threat to biodiversity

… times and continues to dramatically increase. ! is greenhouse gas has been shown to stimulate photosynthesis in numerous … nancial # ows, and the transfer of culture and technology. Greenhouse gas Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …
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Embedding the Environment in Sustainable Development Goals

… are hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) which happen to be potent greenhouse gases. While the concentration of HFCs is still … zones, soil compaction, and emissions of the important greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, as well as emissions of air pollutants …
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Securing the future for global peatlands

… to restore biodiversity, reduce emissions and sequester greenhouse gases; TROUBLED that peat is being lost rapidly … such vast amounts of CO2 that this region now contributes greenhouse gas emissions comparable to those of China or the USA, a sign …
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Achievements and challenges of the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… substances to ozone-depleting gases are classified as greenhouse gases under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United … the Montreal Protocol has avoided the emissions of greenhouse gas equivalent to more than 135 billion tonnes of carbon …
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Feed-in tariffs and a policy Instrument for promoting renewable energies and green economies in developing countries

… systems currently represent some 60% of total current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In a business as usual scenario, the … its rates based on the value of the electricity, including greenhouse gas mitigation and natural gas hedge value: ―For …
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Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report

… proportion of the degradation of the atmosphere is due to greenhouse gas emissions caused by various forms of soil use associated … ecosystems as a sink and reservoir for potential greenhouse gases and is concerned that human activities have …
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