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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas
… of the Task Force are to promote and facilitate: The sharing of lessons learned from experience with … products, and recreation. They, and further billions, also benefit from other mountains in other ways, including the … effects on mountain ecosystems, they can significantly benefit mountain people; and well-illustrated, clear …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… MacQuarrie from the IUCN Global Water Programme, for sharing ideas that contributed towards the early development … and structures to moderate potential damages or to benefit from opportunities with climate change.” IPCC (2007). … issues outside water allocation to provide equitable benefit-sharing opportunities. For instance, during …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… and sustainable use of PGRFA, as well as to the sharing of benefits derived from the use of those resources. … in the Third World. The logic is that such a fund would benefit farmers and farm communities in general, and would … management and use of plant genetic resources, for the benefit of present and future generations of farmers. This …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… equality 124 8.1.3 Territorial integrity 124 8.1.4 Mutual benefit 124 8.1.5 The normative content of the duty to … for a governing normative framework within which states sharing freshwater can organize their relationships. Such a … basis of sovereign equality, territorial integrity, mutual benefit and good faith in order to attain optimal utilization …
Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability
… Other countries, developing ones in particular, may benefit from the increased demand in bioenergy-related … areas for sugarcane and soybean, through programmes which benefit family- based agriculture as well as through zoning … holders of such knowledge; and to encourage the equitable sharing of Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… resources? • What mechanisms exist for cooperation e.g. benefit sharing between upstream and downstream users? • What … and in some cases reducing siltation of reservoirs can benefit consumers of water and of hydroelectric power (Davies …
Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services
… ‘drainage basins’ or ‘river basins’. Watershed services benefit people and nature The various components that make up … indicators to track the delivery of watershed services to benefit specific users. These indicators and targets need to … to ser- vice providers, the purchase of land or the sharing of costs among involved private parties. A cap- …
Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges
… sustainable use of biodiversity, and equitable sharing of the resulting benefits (Maltby, 2000). More … be built. An operational framework for NbS would therefore benefit greatly from being grounded in the Ecosystem … D., Hadley, D., Coombes, E. and Jackson, N. (2007). A cost–benefit appraisal of coastal managed realignment policy. …
Case Study - Opportunities provided by the Nagoya Protocol in specific cases of the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and agricultural sector
… coasts. OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED BY THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL: Benefit sharing could have been ensured and the R&D and … government could have ensured its share of a possible benefit Shift from non-commercial to commercial utilisation: …