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Perspectives and guidelines on food legislation, with a new model food law

… JEMRA Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Microbiological Risk Assessment JMPR Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticides Residues … health (phytosanitary measures) based on an assessment of risk, or in other words, based on science. The aim is the …
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Global Land Outlook

… edited from the work done by the Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency (PBL). Alfred Duda contributed in part to … and natural ecosystems are degrading and at further risk from climate change and biodiversity loss. From 1998 to … and, in certain circumstances, may trigger or increase the risk of conflict. The scale of rural transformation in recent …
18 Jun 2026 Literature

Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… Failure to manage groundwater sustainably puts at risk massive benefits for human well-being, sustainable … management Weak water governance in a country puts at risk the health and food security of its people, its econ- … charge, recharge and changes in storage • Much more robust assessment of aquifer under- standing and water balance, but …
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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case

… business case 38 5.1.1 License to operate, reputational risk, and regulatory goodwill 38 5.1.2 Access to capital 40 … included in the project agreements, Environmental Impact Assessment Condition of Approval Certificates and the … of offsets as a “license to trash”. Finally, there is a risk that companies may consider certain habitats to be …
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Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application

… Jing Lee and Anton Earle Te ch ni ca l P ap er World Water Assessment Programme United Nations Transboundary water … circumstances. or minimum amount. While this spreads the risk of water stress among all basin states (in both wet and … dry conditions), it puts downstream users at particular risk if upstream developmental changes occur, since their …
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Operational Guidelines for Private Sector Engagement

… ensuring that engagement with the private sector includes risk management, reflects IUCN’s Value Proposition (see Box … contexts – including the type of engagement, level of risk, and who is carrying out the process – which the … business selection, project concept, negotiation, risk assessment and management, and drafting of a contractual …
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Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… protect those who are most vulnerable to, or at particular risk from, environmental harm (framework principles 14 and … They are among the human rights defenders most at risk, and the risks are particularly acute for indigenous … enjoyment of human rights, States should require the prior assessment of the possible environmental impacts of proposed …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… States) DO Dissolved Oxygen EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EIS Environmental Impact Statement FAO Food and … it is often the poor whose access to water is most at risk. True consultation requires a commitment to listen to … on wastewater discharge (for example, where there is a risk of contamination of a drinking water source) and the …
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The Use of Marine Organisms in Traditional and Allopathic Medicine

… ON 'BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND SPECIES EXTINCTIONS: MANAGING RISK IN A CHANGING WORLD' SUB THEME: CONSERVING MEDICINAL … ON 'BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND SPECIES EXTINCTIONS: MANAGING RISK IN A CHANGING WORLD' SUB THEME: CONSERVING MEDICINAL … MEDICINAL SPECIES -SECURING A HEALTHY FUTURE 4 Effective assessment of the status and resilience of exploited …
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Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)

… . . . . . . . . . . . 133 ARTICLE 46: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Commentary . . . . . … appropriate mitigation actions; and (b) Establish risk management and implement adaption measures to enable … or areas; and c) to preserve, ex situ, heritage at risk of loss; and Draft International Covenant on Environment …
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