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Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 ARTICLE 25: ECOSYSTEM SERVICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 ARTICLE 26: ECOSYSTEM APPROACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … sustainable use, and where necessary and possible, restoration . To this end, based on the ecosystem approach . …
Ramsar Fact Sheet 8 Keep Peatlands wet for a better future
… huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) are released making restoration of great importance for climate change … It is the only global treaty to focus on one single ecosystem. The views and designations expressed in this … Indonesia Central Kalimantan A 108,000 ha peatland Ecosystem Restoration Concession has been established in the …
Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… warning, detection and mobilization, suppression, and restoration (including research and technology transfer). It … Thus, implementing the UNCCD contributes to support an ecosystem approach to sustainable forest management as part … and the law 39 Under the 2004 Ministerial Regulation on Ecosystem Restoration in Production Forest Areas, forest …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… But how should these ecological networks be managed? The Ecosystem Approach, endorsed by the Parties to the Convention … effective ecological networks. IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) has therefore dedicated its work … areas managed for nature conservation purposes and nature restoration areas. The process of delineating the network is …
Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives
… and restore the health and integrity of the Earth’s ecosystem. In view of the different contributions to global … developing States for biodiversity resources, shared ecosystem management and exchange of experience, including … Migratory species, regional agreements Conservation and restoration of the Bukhara Deer (Cervus elaphus bactrianus) …
Regional Sea Agreements
… on ecosystems and biodiversity and implementing an ecosystem approach. The Strategy of the OSPAR Commission for … in June 2011 with the purpose to maintain the Black Sea ecosystem, including wetlands, in the good ecological state … force. Its objectives are the conservation, protection and restoration of the health and integrity of the ecosystems and …
FAO's work on Climate Change
… poverty alleviation in the region. Forest and landscape restoration Restoring degraded forest and other lands can … Efforts to restore the productivity and the supply of ecosystem goods and services from these degraded areas have … to increase productivity in crop production, building on ecosystem services and agricultural biodiversity. This …
Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches
… REFERENCES 9. INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF WATER FOR HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM NEEDS I. WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT II. IMPROVING … in head or water level relative to background conditions. ecosystem: a system of dynamic interdependent relationships … and will be used for the conservation, maintenance and restoration of protected state forests, national parks, …
Guidelines on Biofuels and Invasive Species
… 7 on Conservation specifies criteria on biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, buffer zones, ecological corridors, … beyond the immediate site of a project. Thus, adopting an ecosystem approach when planning developments is preferable … fund to pay for eradication, containment, management, or restoration. • The development and implementation of a …