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Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
… poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an … poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an … capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that …
Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates
… up to 30 eggs. These hatch in 8-18 months depending on the weather conditions (Loveridge and Williams, 1957). Leopard … and Gor j ; all near the Yugoslavian border in the extreme south-west (Fuhn, 1981; Fuhn and Vancea, 1961). Spain … is now restricted to hills in the province of Var in the extreme south-east (the Massifs des Maures and Esterel). and …
Energy law and sustainable development
… surface temperature above the 1961–1990 average.34 Warmer weather in Alaska has allowed beetle growth rates to soar, so … enhances the air's capacity to hold moisture. 100 year extreme weather events, and the catastrophic costs associated … 23 Energy Law and Sustainable Development With respect to extreme weather, it is: • very likely that most land areas …
The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment
… detoxifying wastes, sequestering carbon, buffering against weather events and climatic changes, and producing fish, wild … of the changes in precipitation levels will become more extreme; in other words, floods will become more frequent and … developing world. Among others, these include: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by halving, between 1990 and • …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… wetland community or (ii) exemplify a critical or extreme stage in biological or hydromorphological processes … closure of hunting in periods of extremely adverse weather, outlawing methods of mass destruction, and so forth. … criteria for triggering the stopping of shooting in severe weather conditions. It was the third technical meeting, held …