Strengthening Collaboration And Coordination Between Biodiversity And Chemicals And Waste Clusters

Author : Harrison, Jerry
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789289372817

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Strengthening collaboration and coordination between biodiversity and chemicals and waste clusters by Harrison, Jerry Pdf

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2022-513/ There is a great urgency to address biodiversity loss and chemicals and waste pollution. These global challenges are intertwined in many ways. Pollution is identified as one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. Therefore, it is important to look at these challenges and solutions in a synergistic way in order to address them effectively. Efforts to date have mainly focused on cooperation and synergies within the same thematic cluster. This review looks at the opportunities that may exist for working across thematic clusters, specifically focusing on strengthening collaboration and coordination between biodiversity and chemicals and waste clusters. The review provides options for action that can help implementation in particular at the national level, but also at the regional and global levels through enhancement of collaboration between biodiversity and chemicals and waste clusters.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264348288

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OECD Studies on Water Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Freshwater Monitoring and Regulating Water Quality by OECD Pdf

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are contaminants of emerging environmental and health concern that have been detected in freshwater, wastewater and drinking water. They interfere with the endocrine system in humans and wildlife, and produce adverse effects such as developmental, reproductive, neurological and immune effects.

Author : Tuula Honkonen,Sabaa A. Khan
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Chemicals
ISBN : 9789289348393

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Chemicals and Waste Governance Beyond 2020 by Tuula Honkonen,Sabaa A. Khan Pdf

SAICM was established a decade ago as a voluntary approach to complement regulatory gaps to achieve sound management of chemicals by 2020. Despite significant actions taken since then, chemicals still pose a grave risk through the pollution of air, water, soil, and food. In 2015, an international process was set in motion to design a new global framework for sound management of chemicals and wastes. The new framework will replace SAICM and it is envisaged to be adopted in 2020. This report is the first attempt to analyse functions needed for effective chemicals and waste governance and to identify options for the institutional form in the post-2020 era. The report aims to increase understanding of reforms required to protect human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals and wastes, in light of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.

Author : Niko Urho,Maria Ivanova,Anna Dubrova,Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789289360807

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International Environmental Governance by Niko Urho,Maria Ivanova,Anna Dubrova,Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy Pdf

A plethora of environmental problems are ravaging the planet and its inhabitants. How well do existing structures convene governments to address these challenges? What is the role of science and civil society in this context? And, does international cooperation properly support countries with limited capacities? This report seeks to respond to these questions, based on an analysis of actions taken to renew international environmental governance to fulfill commitments made at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012. This report outlines possibilities to strengthen the UN Environment Programme and to enhance synergies among global environmental conventions to ensure that international environmental governance continues evolving and improving to secure human well-being and planetary health.

Author : Niko Urho
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789289318730

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Possibilities of enhancing co-operation and co-ordination among MEAs in the biodiversity cluster by Niko Urho Pdf

Author : Carl Bruch,Geeta Batra,Anupam Anand,Shehla Chowdhury,Sierra Killian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000964295

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Conflict-Sensitive Conservation by Carl Bruch,Geeta Batra,Anupam Anand,Shehla Chowdhury,Sierra Killian Pdf

This book provides an empirically formulated foundation for conflict-sensitive conservation, a field in which the existing literature relies primarily on anecdotal evidence. Seeking to better understand the impact of conflict on the implementation and outcomes of environmental projects, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Independent Evaluation Office and the Environmental Law Institute undertook an evaluation of GEF support to fragile and conflict-affected contexts. Following a qualitative and quantitative analysis of documents from more than 4,000 projects, the research team discovered a statistically significant negative correlation between a country’s Fragile States Index score and the implementation quality of environmental projects in that country. In this book, the evaluation and research team explain these groundbreaking findings in detail, highlighting seven key case studies: Afghanistan, Albertine Rift, Balkans, Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, and Mali. Drawing upon additional research and interviews with GEF project implementation staff, the volume illustrates the pathways through which conflict and fragility frequently impact environmental projects. It also examines how practitioners and sponsoring institutions can plan and implement their projects to avoid or mitigate these issues and find opportunities to promote peacebuilding through their environmental interventions. Examining data from 164 countries and territories, this innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental management, conservation, international development, and the fast-growing field of environmental peacebuilding. It will also be a great resource for practitioners working in these important fields. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Helmut Volger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789047444541

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A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations by Helmut Volger Pdf

This is the second updated English edition of the German "Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen". The book provides in addition to concise and comprehensive information on the UN system, insight into recent UN developments and reform efforts in the face of global opportunities and challenges, such as the Millennium Summit 2000 and World Summit 2005, and the establishment of important new UN organs, the Human Rights Council and the Peacebuilding Commission, in 2006. The contributing authors are academic scholars of international law, economics and political sciences; active and former diplomats and UN officials; journalists and members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and offer a variety of interesting perspectives.

Author : Francesca Grifo,Joshua Rosenthal
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1559635002

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Biodiversity and Human Health by Francesca Grifo,Joshua Rosenthal Pdf

The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water quality. Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the global environment and biomedicine to explore the human health consequences of the loss of biological diversity. Based on a two-day conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution, the book opens a dialogue among experts from the fields of public health, biology, epidemiology, botany, ecology, demography, and pharmacology on this vital but often neglected concern. Contributors discuss the uses and significance of biodiversity to the practice of medicine today, and develop strategies for conservation of these critical resources. Topics examined include: the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss emerging infectious diseases and the loss of biodiversity the significance and use of both prescription and herbal biodiversity-derived remedies indigenous and local peoples and their health care systems sustainable use of biodiversity for medicine an agenda for the future In addition to the editors, contributors include Anthony Artuso, Byron Bailey, Jensa Bell, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Michael Boyd, Mary S. Campbell, Eric Chivian, Paul Cox, Gordon Cragg, Andrew Dobson, Kate Duffy-Mazan, Robert Engelman, Paul Epstein, Alexandra S. Fairfield, John Grupenhoff, Daniel Janzen, Catherine A. Laughin, Katy Moran, Robert McCaleb, Thomas Mays, David Newman, Charles Peters, Walter Reid, and John Vandermeer. The book provides a common framework for physicians and biomedical researchers who wish to learn more about environmental concerns, and for members of the environmental community who desire a greater understanding of biomedical issues.

Author : Adil Najam,Mihaela Papa,International Institute for Sustainable Development,Nadaa Taiyab
Publisher : International Institute for Sustainable Development = Institut international du développement durable
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Environmental economics
ISBN : 189553691X

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Global Environmental Governance by Adil Najam,Mihaela Papa,International Institute for Sustainable Development,Nadaa Taiyab Pdf

Author : Sarah A Laird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136534591

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Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge by Sarah A Laird Pdf

Biodiversity research and prospecting are long-standing activities taking place in a new legal and ethical environment. Following entry into force of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1993, and other recent policy developments, expectations and obligations for research and prospecting partnerships have changed. However, to date there are few guides to integrating these concepts with practice. This book offers practical guidance on how to arrive at equitable biodiversity research and prospecting partnerships. Drawing on experience and lessons learned from around the world, it provides case studies, analysis and recommendations in a range of areas that together form a new framework for creating equity in these partnerships. They include researcher codes of ethics, institutional policies, community research agreements, the design of more effective commercial partnerships and biodiversity prospecting contracts, the drafting and implementation of national 'access and benefit-sharing' laws, and institutional tools for the distribution of financial benefits. As part of the People and Plants initiative to enhance the role of communities in efforts to conserve biodiversity and use natural resources sustainably, Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge will be invaluable to students, researchers and local communities, academic institutions, international agencies, government bodies and companies involved in biodiversity research, prospecting and conservation.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309262309

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Sustainability for the Nation by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government Pdf

A "sustainable society," according to one definition, "is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine either its physical or its social system of support." As the government sector works hard to ensure sufficient fresh water, food, energy, housing, health, and education for the nation without limiting resources for the future generations, it's clear that there is no sufficient organization to deal with sustainability issues. Each federal agency appears to have a single mandate or a single area of expertise making it difficult to tackle issues such as managing the ecosystem. Key resource domains, which include water, land, energy, and nonrenewable resources, for example, are nearly-completely connected yet different agencies exist to address only one aspect of these domains. The legendary ecologist John Muir wrote in 1911 that "when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." Thus, in order for the nation to be successful in sustaining its resources, "linkages" will need to be built among federal, state, and local governments; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); and the private sector. The National Research Council (NRC) was asked by several federal agencies, foundations, and the private sector to provide guidance to the federal government on issues related to sustainability linkages. The NRC assigned the task to as committee with a wide range of expertise in government, academia, and business. The committee held public fact-finding meetings to hear from agencies and stakeholder groups; examined sustainability management examples; conducted extensive literature reviews; and more to address the issue. Sustainability for the Nation: Resource Connection and Governance Linkages is the committee's report on the issue. The report includes insight into high-priority areas for governance linkages, the challenges of managing connected systems, impediments to successful government linkages, and more. The report also features examples of government linkages which include Adaptive Management on the Platte River, Philadelphia's Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Managing Land Use in the Mojave.

Author : Shawkat Alam,Sumudu Atapattu,Carmen G. Gonzalez,Jona Razzaque
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107055698

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International Environmental Law and the Global South by Shawkat Alam,Sumudu Atapattu,Carmen G. Gonzalez,Jona Razzaque Pdf

Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264303201

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Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development by OECD Pdf

Drawing on experiences and insights from 16 megadiverse countries, this report examines how biodiversity is being mainstreamed in four key areas.

Author : Buckler, Carolee,Creech, Heather
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : 9789231000539

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Shaping the future we want by Buckler, Carolee,Creech, Heather Pdf

Author : World Resources Institute,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D00510954R

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Global Biodiversity Strategy by World Resources Institute,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

The nature and value of biodiversity; Losses of biodiversity and their causes; The strategy for biodiversity conservation; Establishing a national policy framework for biodiversity conservation; Creating an international policy environmental that supports national biodiversity conservation; Creating conditions and incentives for local biodiversity conservation; Managing biodiversity throught the human environment; Strengthening protected areas; Conservings species, populations and genetic diversity; Exoanding human capacity to conserve biodiversity.