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Showing 91 - 100 of 180 resultsLegislation | 2013 |National Irrigation Act, 2013
United Republic of TanzaniaTanzania National Irrigation Act, 2013 Act 5 of 2013 Published in Tanzania Government Gazette 1 on 31 December 2013 Assented to on 20 October 2013 Commenced [This is the version of this document from 14 March 2025.] [Amended by Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 2025 (Act 1 of 2025) on 14 March 2025] An Act to provide for the establishment of the National Irrigation Commission; to...Legislation | 2013 |Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control
Viet NamThis law provides natural disaster prevention and control activities and specifies the rights and obligations of agencies, organisations, households and individuals engaged in natural disaster prevention and control activities. It also commits the government to managing and devoting financial resources to natural disaster prevention and control. The law specifies that natural disaster prevention...Legislation | 2013 |Law on the Reduction of CO2 Emissions
LiechtensteinThis law aims at 1) implementing the contract and the 2010 agreement between the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Swiss Confederation concerning the environmental levies in the Principality of Liechtenstein, as amended, 2) reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in particular of CO2 emissions, 3) reducing other harmful effects on the environment, and 4) creating incentives for the rational use of...Legislation | 2013 |Ley de Cambio Climático
HondurasThe objective of this document is to establish the principles and regulations necessary to plan, prevent and respond in an adequate, coordinated and sustained manner to the impacts generated by climate change in Honduras. It seeks to foster practices aimed at reducing environmental vulnerability and improving adaptation capacity, and develop proposals for the prevention and mitigation of the...Measures of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for the implementation of the Energy Conservation Law of the people's Republic of China.| 2013 |Regulation
ChinaThese Measures has been formulated in accordance with the Energy Conservation Law. The Measures consists of 37 articles divided into 6 Chapters: General Provisions (I); Energy conservation management (II); Rational utilization and conservation of energy (III); Technological progress in energy conservation (IV); Legal liabilities (V); Supplementary provisions (VI). The development and reform...
Renewable Energy Act 2013 (Cap 32.05).| 2013 |Legislation
GambiaThis Act seeks to promote the use of renewable energy resources, including hybrid systems one of its objectives is the observation of regional decisions adopted in Accra regarding the ECOWAS Regional Renewable Energy Policy. It defines functions of the Minister responsible for Energy and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority with respect to renewable energy in The Gambia and establishes the...
Legislation | 2012 |Disaster Management Act, 2012
BangladeshThe objectives of the Act are substantial reduction of the overall risks of disasters to an acceptable level with appropriate risk reduction interventions; effective implementation of post disaster emergency response; rehabilitation and recovery measures; provision of emergency humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable community people; strengthening of institutional capacity for effective co...Legislation | 2012 |2012 Act no. 70 on Climate Change
IcelandThe objectives of this act are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions economically and efficiently, to increase the binding of carbon from the atmosphere, to promote adaptation to the effects of climate change, and to create conditions for the government to cope with Iceland's international commitments on climate issues. The Environment Agency conducts the implementation of this Act and takes the...Legislation | 2012 |Ley General de Cambio Climático
MexicoThe approval of the General Law on Climate Change gives certainty and continuity to climate policy in Mexico and sets the country on a path to a low carbon economy. It establishes the basis for the creation of institutions, legal frameworks and financing to move towards a low carbon economy. As a General Law, it specifies the different responsibilities of the Federation, Mexico's pledge under the...Legislation | 2012 |Land Act
KenyaKenya Land Act Act 6 of 2012 Published in Kenya Gazette 35 on 4 May 2012 Assented to on 27 April 2012 Commenced on 2 May 2012 [This is the version of this document from 31 December 2022.] [Amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 2015 (Act 25 of 2015) on 24 December 2015] [Amended by Land Laws (Amendment) Act, 2016 (Act 28 of 2016) on 21 September 2016] [Amended by Companies and...
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