The Sahel region is largely dependent on agriculture as the main economic activity, with about 80-90% of the population actively engaged in agriculture. Land degradation is however a major environmental issue affecting the region...
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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets. Recognizing that...
Publication Date: February 2013 The Partnership for Action on Green Economy, or PAGE, is a response to the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), entitled The Future We Want, which...
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down a comprehensive regime of law and order in the world's oceans and seas establishing rules governing all uses of the oceans and their resources. It enshrines the notion...
Conference Gender mainstreaming in education Moving beyond theory, sharing practical insights Brussels, 25 November 2014 Experts Discuss " Gender mainstreaming in education" In the right time Educade.be [1] decided to make its...
Africa has now reached the point where there needs to be greater convergence between the high levelcommitments and delivery through concrete and unambiguous actions, strengthening and scaling-up ofexisting mechanisms and...
The United Nations Environment Rapid Response Assessment on mine tailings looks at why existing engineering and technical knowhow to build and maintain safe tailings storage facilities is insufficient to meet the target of zero...
Environmental crime is not a niche problem. It is now the fourth largest type of criminal activity in the world, and valued at anywhere between 91 and 258 billion USD every year. This colossal sum fuels organized crime, undermines...
The Council affirms the importance of a comprehensive and integrated human rights-based approach towards the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, through specific actions and effective mainstreaming
These guidelines provide a framework for strengthening the contribution of European Union (EU) international cooperation and development policy to sustainable development by integrating, or mainstreaming, environmental and climate...