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The UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA Protocol) to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention)...

This paper describes the elements, structure, course and outcomes of a negotiation simulation exercise for the University of Eastern Finland – UN Environment Course on...

The following text expands on the options for action set out in the body of the report (from page 39), using the same numbering. First the summary from the text is repeated and...

This Report was prepared as part of the legislative assistance to prepare for drafting of the national legislation on EIA and SEA. The purpose of the Report is to identify SEA...

This document summarizes the key findings of a study exploring the potential contributions of UNEP’s Regional Seas Programme to the implementation of the Convention on...

This chapter describes the gap between expected emissions in 2020 according to country pledges and the emissions consistent with the 2°C target, assuming the emission reduction...

Esta puhlicaciOn ha sido hecha en ci marco tie un acuerdo sobre intercamhio de información en materia de iegisiación amhiental celebrado en octubre de 1993 entre la ProcuradurIa...

The Convention was adopted rind opened for signature at a conference of Plenipotentiaries in Rotterdam on 10 September 1998. It was signed at a special ceremony on 11 September...

UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable...

Given the significant increase in the number of multilateral environmental agreements, their ratification and implementation through domestic legislation has now become a top...

Taking into account that women and girls constitute half of the world’s population and, therefore, represent half of the potential and innovation necessary to face the “triple...

The overall aim of the legal and policy review is to establish a high-level, strategic understanding of the current policy, legal and regulatory frameworks in Somalia. It aims...

The introduction to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United NationsEnvironment Programme to...

In recent years, the amount of hazardous wastes shipped across national borders has increased substantially. As the generation of wastes in industrialized countries has...

The purpose of this booklet: The Basel Convention.- A Global Solution for Controlling Hazardous Wastes is to promote knowledge about the implementation of the Basel Convention....

The Study reviews a number of existing and draft legal instruments, and further, offers a general assessment of the common features and trends in the existing civil liability...

This handbook includes the following conventions and instruments: i) Convention On Wetlands Of International Importance Especially As Waterfowl Habitat (1971); ii) Convention...

The articles in the present Review are based on lectures given during the first University of Joensuu – UNEP Course on International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy,...

The handbook has been developed to highlight the relationship between envi- ronment and trade. The primary aim is to foster a broader understanding of these interlinkages to...

The present document is aimed at supporting and enhancing a better understanding of seven key biodiversity conventions, namely the Convention on Biological Diversity, the...