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Gincana 3: Biological Diversity and Climate Change
(2007)
The recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepared by 2500 experts from 130 countries has made it clear that climate change is real.
Proceedings of the African High-level Regional Meeting on Energy and Sustainable Development for the ninth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
(2002)
Report of the regional meeting on energy and sustainable development
Reforming Energy Subsidies: An Explanatory Summary of the Issues and Challenges in Removing or Modifying Subsidies on Energy that Undermine the Pursuit of Sustainable Development
(2002)
This booklet draws on recent work on energy-subsidy reform carried out by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (lEA). It summarizes in non-technical language the central issues ...
Certification and Sustainable Fisheries
(2009)
The main concern of this paper is a consideration of the hypothetical and actual benefits of certification and eco-labelling. The paper focuses on environmental certification of capture fisheries (rather than social and/or ...
Towards Sustainable Fisheries Access Agreements: Issues and Options at the World Trade Organization
(2008-10)
This paper presents concrete textual suggestions for improving the ASCM with regards to “access-related” fisheries subsidies. Suggested options range from improving the definition of subsidies to introducing criteria-conditioned ...
Sustainability Criteria for Fisheries Subsidies: Options for the WTO and Beyond
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2007)
The aim of this paper is to assist governments in the identification of criteria for the use of fisheries subsidies, with the dual ambition of helping WTO negotiators craft new international law and providing domestic ...
Fisheries Subsidies: Critical Issue for Trade and Sustainable Development at the WTO: An introductory Guide
(2008-05)
Fisheries subsidies have become a leading international issue for a simple reason: fish stocks around the world are facing an unprecedented crisis of depletion, and inappropriate subsidies are a real part of the problem. ...
African Industrial Workshop: Africa—Regional Industrial Review
(2002)
Industrial activity is a major contributor to many of the environmental and social problems facing society today. Industrial activity has, however, the potential to make an important contribution to achieving a sustainable ...
Kampala Declaration on the Environment for Development
(2002)
The African Ministers of Environment, having met in Kampala on 4 – 5 July 2002, at the 9th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, decide among other things, to fully implement the outstanding ...
Decisions adopted by the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment at its Tenth Session
(2004)
Decisions adopted by the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment at its tenth session