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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… tuna has declined by 70 per cent.22 Since 1990, the biomass of yellowfin in the region has steadily declined. … recruitment is predicted to result in a rapid decline in biomass. Based on the results of the assessment, the WCPFC … benchmark. A stock is considered overfished when its biomass falls below the relevant overfishing benchmark. …
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Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)

… the capacity of ecosystems to capture resources, produce biomass, decompose organic matter and recycle carbon, water … M. and Weis, J.J. (2007). ‘Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species … setting and grazing on plant communities and plant biomass on a large dryland floodplain’. Journal of Arid …
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Concepts for Industry Co-Regulation of Bio-fuel Weeds

… 1 K. Rath, ‘The Potential for Green Gene Technology in Biomass Production – a Legal Examination’, in B. Breckling et …
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Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… in a carbon ‘pool.’ Examples of carbon pools are forest biomass, wood products and soils. The inclusion of carbon … calls on Parties to take action to conserve and enhance biomass, forest, oceanic and other greenhouse gas sinks and …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Assessing the international forest regime

… included methodologies for assessing carbon in aboveground biomass and in the soil, but did not address many issues, such as accounting for the carbon in subsurface biomass, wood products, and landfills.68 To remedy these and … Change and Forestry. <http://www.unfccc.de> “Belowground biomass” is carbon that is stored in living organisms or …
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Large Marine Ecosystems: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… on the number of stocks is much higher than on the landed biomass. These trends indicate that fisheries tend to affect …
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Collaboration for resilience: How collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st century

… 80,000 ha of watershed. They installed micro- hydro and biomass power generators and, critically for renewal of the …
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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

… by social problems. If, for example, in certain areas biomass for the production of biofuels will be grown at very … now. They contain more than 90% of the planet’s living biomass and provide a living space 168 times larger than 23 …
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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… on photosynthetic activity and, in turn, vegetation biomass. The NDVI has a strong correlation with cereal crop … Restoration of degraded lands allowed increase in plant biomass and thus carbon sequestration, improved water … dense woody and succulent species, and has a much higher biomass than would be expected under semiarid conditions …
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Towards a Pollution Free Planet - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… system Water and air purification, reduction of plant biomass, altered climate regulation through carbon …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance