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- Global climate governance to enhance biodiversity and well-being: integrating non-state networks and public international law in tropical forests.
I. INTRODUCTION II. GOVERNANCE OF TROPICAL FORESTS A. Situating Tropical Forest Governance as a Global Administrative and Environmental Law Challenge ...
- Environmental Law
- Vol. 41 Nbr. 1, January 2011
- Saving species, privately: species continue to vanish rapidly despite the vast areas set aside by governments to protect them. Can private biodiversity reserves help?
Biological diversity continues to decline across most of the world, and threats are mounting as climate change kicks in. Scientists have documented te...
- World Watch
- Vol. 22 Nbr. 5, September 2009
- Winners of Biodiversity Awards Revealed
MADRID, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies in the food sector, leading and pioneering efforts to promote conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, were honoured with Biodiversity Awards on Tuesday 16 November. The Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) and United Business Media (UBM) revealed the winners at a ceremony held at the Health Ingredients trade fair in Madrid, hosted by health expert and nutritionist Amanda Hamilton. Coop, the largest retail group in Switzerland was recognized in the Leadership category for its commitment to regional produce, rare species and its support to organic farmers. The jury also commended Coop's creative public awareness campaigns to bring biodiversity closer to the consumer. Unilever, a company known for its numerous global food brands, was r...
- U.S. Newswire
- November 22, 2010

- Biodiversity Conservation AAC v. BLM, (10th Cir. 2011)
FILED United States Court of Appea...
- Federal Circuits
- Usaid, Green Mountain Coffee, and Fair Trade Usa Biodiversity Initiative Supports Economic and Social Development for Brazilian Coffee Farmers ; Two-Year Program Aims to Promote Fair Trade Environmental Standards, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agronomy, and Increase Organic Production
OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Green Mountain Coffee(R), and Fair Trade USA today announce a new partnership to promote biodiversity, conservation, and environmental education among Brazil's coffee growing communities, as biodiverse ecosystems form an important foundation for economic and social development. Fair Trade certification offers coffee farmers fair prices, community investment funds, and the business skills to produce high- quality products that respect the environment and can compete in the global marketplace. The new initiative--the Sustainable Sourcing Partnership Project -- aims to increase producer organizations' understanding of and compliance with Fair Trade environmental standards and Brazilian environ...
- U.S. Newswire
- February 15, 2011
- Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request: Creating Stewardship Through Biodiversity Discovery in National Parks
We (National Park Service) will ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) described below. This collection will survey participants of Biodiversity Discovery efforts. To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and as a part of our continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, we invite the general public and other federal agencies to comment on this IC. The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that we may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number and current expiration date.
- Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 6820, February 09, 2012
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- National Park Service
- The war against biotic invasion - a new challenge of biodiversity conservation for China.
INTRODUCTION "According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, there are already three hundred and eighty invasive plants, forty...
- UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy
- Vol. 24 Nbr. 2, December 2006
- Biodiversity in Danger: Which Areas Should Be Protected? New Digital Observatory Helps to Set Priorities
WASHINGTON and BRUSSELS, Feb. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Biodiversity loss is a growing concern. Protected areas are a instrument to counteract this trend. The UN's Convention on Biological Diversity conference of the parties in Nagoya (October 2010) set stringent new targets to be reached by 2020. At least 17% of terrestrial and inland water and 10% of coastal and marine areas have to be protected. But are protected areas really protected? Are they in the right place? Where should new protected areas be located? The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), in collaboration with other partners, is helping decision-makers to find their way through the vast amount of information needed to answer these and other questions by setting up a Digital Observatory for Protected...
- U.S. Newswire
- February 18, 2011
- Federal environmental law reform: biodiversity and environmental offsets.
On 24 August 2011, the Australian Government released its response to a review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (E...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2011, January 2011
- Framing bioinvasion: biodiversity, climate change, security, trade, and global governance.
This article introduces the complexities of framing the policy debate over invasive alien species or, more generally, bioinvasion. It suggests that th...
- Global Governance
- Vol. 16 Nbr. 1, January 2010