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Biodiversity for Business: A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN

… Database on Protected Areas) which docu- ments the extent, quality and diversity of pro- tected areas; Key Biodiversity … (e.g. International Finance Corporation Performance Standard 6, or the Forest Stewardship Council standard); … Possible impacts on ecosystem services, such as fresh water, food and air regulation are also considered. In addi- …
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Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols

… Flue gas desulphurization FGR Flue gas recirculation H2O Water HC Hydrocarbon HCB Hexachlorobenzene HCH … SOx Sulphur oxides SOMA Sulphur oxides management area STP Standard temperature (0° C) and pressure (1.013 x 105 Pa) 10 … carried on or contemplated therein. Article 6: Air quAlity mAnAgement Taking into account articles 2 to 5, the …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services

… for watershed services is an emerging innovation in water management. This guide offers a hands-on explanation of … drain into a tributary stream. Within a watershed, the quality, quantity and timing of water draining into and … an obligation could be to reach an agreed water quality standard at a certain point of measurement by a specified …
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Brexit: environment and climate change

… environment 35 Marine and aquatic environments 37 Air quality 38 Climate change 38 Box 5: EU Emissions Trading … In many areas, such as species conservation, or air and water quality, it will be vital for the UK and the EU to … the Commission brought forward such legislation under the standard common market legal base, Article 100 EEC.7 9. In …
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Transitioning to a pollution-free planet

… the waste, hazardous pollutants, and pollution of air, water and land that emanates from man-made activity and that … i. ‘hard-hitting’ pollutants; ii. Areas of pollution (air, water, marine and coastal, land/soil) including the … a Pollution-Free Planet Air pollution 1. Develop air quality policies and strategies at the subnational, national …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Putting nature on the map: a report and recommendations on the use of the IUCN system of protected area categorisation in the UK

… area definition and related advice represent a global standard which is followed in all parts of the world; 14. The … 2014 data featuring on the WDPA: courtesy UNEP-WCMC. Rydal Water, Lake District National Park, England © Global Warming … it was ‘currently lagging behind many countries in the quality of protected areas reporting’. However, he recognised …
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International ocean governance: Using international law and organisations to manage marine resources sustainably (revised)

… 12 Coastal State Standard-Setting Rights in Offshore Zones and International … a series of relationships between large marine ecosystems, water- sheds, national boundaries, and regional ocean … purposes, the demands of coastal communities for more, quality freshwater may seem unreasonable and hard to meet. …
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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments

… 3.5  Tenure of land, fisheries, forests, and access to water............................................... 37  3.6  … or  lead  to  environmental  degradation  and water  scarcity,  thereby  reversing  development  pathways  … also  ensure  food  is  of  sufficient  quantity  and  quality  to  satisfy  dietary  needs  of  particular  types  …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… ‘Flow’ sets out a path from conflict over limited water resources and environmental degradation to a water … the river bed and cause further deterioration of the water quality. Irrigated crops once growing strongly on the clean … or ‘maintaining river nitrate levels below a particular standard’. 6 Social and political objectives might, at first …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… advises FAO member countries – including forestry, land, water, fisheries, wildlife, food, biodiversity and genetic … programmes for judges are critical, ELI does not have a standard off-the-shelf course to provide judges. Rather, we … with partners to ensure that judges receive the highest quality education on these issues. The 2002 Global Judges …
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