Multilateral environmental agreements
- IPR - assisting biodiversity, alleviation of food shortages, scientists and farmers? A selection of viewpoints.
- International Development Research Centre, 1994
- The purpose of this book is to identify key IPR issues and choices and to describe the broader context within which decisions are being made. The full report contains 28 consensus recommendations and a presents a selection of argument...
- Strengthening National Policy Research Capacity to Implement the Convention on Biological Diversity: Proposed Decisions for COP-4
- Policy Research Capacity Initiative, WRI, 1998
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa: full text of Convention
- Convention to Combat Desertification, 1994
- Full text of the Convention to Combat Desertification, which was elaborated by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INCD) and signed in June 1994. Also available from the CCD WWW site in French and English
- Southern perceptions of the Kyoto protocol: achievements and opinions
- W. Gupta; K.S.K. Kumar / Tata Energy Research Institute, India, 1998
- The Kyoto Protocol has been hailed as providing a major breakthrough in climate change negotiations. However, some questions do arise: What are some of its major achievements? How does the developing world view...
- Southern perceptions of the Kyoto protocol: achievements and opinions
- W. Gupta; K.S.K. Kumar / Tata Energy Research Institute, India, 1998
- The Kyoto Protocol has been hailed as providing a major breakthrough in climate change negotiations. However, some questions do arise: What are some of its major achievements? How does the developing world view...
- Definition and in-depth examination of interlinkages between the IPRs and biodiversity issues
- European Union, 2000
- The main objective of the study was to provide the Commission with a comprehensive background document on the relationship between IPRs as covered by the provisions of the TRIPs agreement and biodiversity related issues. The study als...
- TRIPS, IPRs and knowledge sharing
- C. Correa / Third World Network, 2000
- This article examines the background and objectives of the proposals made by developing countries with an aim to reviewing the TRIPS Agreement. It goes on to discuss issues related to the implementation of the Agreement and to the "in...
- Making CITES Work: Examples of Effective Implementation and Enforcement
- C. Allan / Traffic International, 1997
- This report presents examples of the positive moves that have been made by both governments and agencies to improve implementation and enforcement of the Convention and associated national laws and regulations. The report aims to enco...
- Still in business: The Ivory Trade in Asia, Seven Years After the CITES Ban
- Traffic International, 1997
- This report provides a review of the current Asian ivory trade, examining recent information from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. It shows that Asia's ivory industry is still in business, s...
- World Bank Environment Department: Montreal Protocol
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and Vienna Convention for the Protectio, 1999
- Still in business: The Ivory Trade in Asia, Seven Years After the CITES Ban
- Traffic International, 1997
- This report provides a review of the current Asian ivory trade, examining recent information from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. It shows that Asia's ivory industry is still in business, s...
- World Bank Environment Department: Montreal Protocol
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and Vienna Convention for the Protectio, 1999
- Traditional forest-related knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on Biological Diversity, 1996
- The economics of international agreements for the protection of environmental and agricultural resources
- S. Barrett / FAO Hypermedia Collection on Desertification, 1995
- The purpose of this paper is to review the economics of international environmental agreements (IEAs) and draw Implications for the international issues that are relevant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). ...
- A synthesis of experience within the arena of dryland management: exploring best practices
- R. Oygard; T. Vedeld; J. Aune / Dryland Program, World Bank, 1999
- The objectives of this study are to analyze and synthesize the experience of the World Bank and other agencies in dryland management, with special emphasis on Africa. Recommendations are provided on "good policies and practices...
- Down to Earth: Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) Newsletter
- Convention to Combat Desertification, 1999
- Experience With the Use of Trade Measures in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1997
- CITES establishes an international legal framework for the regulation and restriction of trade in specimens of species of wild animals and plants. Even if international trade is not the most important cause of biodiversity decline, th...
- The functions of habitats must be evaluated as part of cost/benefit analysis of programs
- World Bank, 2000
- The objectives of the current review are: to inform EA practitioners, task team leaders (TTLs), executing agencies and other project stakeholders about the costs and benefits of effective treatment of biodiversity in pr...
- The economics of biosafety: implications for biotechnology in developing countries
- M.K. Maredia / The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1998
- There is a growing body of literature on the safe use of biotechnology and the need for an international biosafety protocol and national regulations to facilitate the safe development and transfer of biotechnology. Most of these studi...
- Trade Bans and Wildlife Conservation: The Case of African Elephant Ivory
- R. Heltberg / Development Economic Research Group, Denmark, 1998
- Trade bans are imposed on undesirable items such as endangered species, narcotics, polluting manufactures and stolen goods. This paper argues that under a trade ban production of the banned good may increase when enforcement is imperf...
- CDM Policy Dialogue
- Independent high-level panel on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
- International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
- The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is an intergovernmental organisation promoting the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Its members represent about 80 per cent of the world's tropical forests and 90 per cent of the global tropical timber trade.
- Oslo Climate and Forest Conference (OSFC)
- International conference on climate and forests held in Oslo, Norway, May 2010
- The Earth System Governance Project
- A governance and global environmental change research network
- Öko-Institut e.V. - Institute for Applied Ecology
- European research and consultancy institute
- European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi)
- Organisation that provides capacity building to support climate change negotiations
- Eldis Environment Resource Guide
- An Eldis resource guide on environmental issues
- Global Environmental Facility Evaluation Office (GEF Evaluation Office)
- The GEF's independent evaluation office
