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Introductory Course to the International Legal Framework on Freshwater Resources
E-Learning course
Keywords:
  • best practice
  • dispute settlement
  • drinking water
  • ecosystem approach
  • environmental impact assessment
  • glacier
  • global strategy
  • governance
  • groundwater
  • hydrological cycle
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UN Watercourses Convention
Treaty
17 Aug 2014

The present Convention applies to uses of international watercourses and of their waters for purposes other than navigation and to measures of protection, preservation and management related to the uses of those watercourses and their waters.

Multilateral
Global
Keywords:
  • international watercourse
  • transboundary effect
  • water pollution
  • water resources management
  • water use
Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009
Treaty
Multilateral
Keywords:
  • agricultural practice
  • agriculture
  • compliance
  • decontamination
  • deep sea
  • disaster
  • ecosystem approach
  • ecosystem management
  • ecosystem preservation
  • ecosystem service
  • environmental standard
  • industrial waste
  • labelling
  • land restoration
  • organic farming
  • payment for ecosystem service
  • precautionary principle
  • private sector
  • protection of species
  • ship-based marine pollution
  • waste
  • waste collection
  • waste recovery
  • waste storage
  • water use
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TRE-155445.pdf
International agreement on the river Maas
Treaty
01 Dec 2006
Multilateral
Keywords:
  • ecosystem approach
  • ecosystem management
  • ecosystem preservation
  • ecosystem service
  • payment for ecosystem service
  • polluter pays principle
  • precautionary principle
  • science
  • water use
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TRE-001376.pdf
Bilateral Cooperation Agreement Minutes between Egypt and Libya on the establishment of the Joint Authority for the Study and Development of Groundwater of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System
Treaty
08 Jul 1991
Bilateral
Africa
Keywords:
  • groundwater
  • institution building
  • synergy
  • water use
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TRE-149787.pdf
Agreement No. 2 between Chad, Egypt, Libya and Sudan for Monitoring and Sharing Data for the sustainable development and proper management of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System
Treaty
Multilateral
Africa
Keywords:
  • groundwater
  • synergy
  • water use
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TRE-153648.pdf
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the Government of Portugal in regard to the first phase of development of the water resources of the Kunene River Basin
Treaty
Bilateral
Keywords:
  • fee
  • synergy
  • water use
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TRE-152244.doc
The Protocol Concerning the Protection of the Environment from Land-Based Activities in in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden - Inofficial English Translation
Treaty
Multilateral
Keywords:
  • air quality
  • coastal ecosystem
  • groundwater
  • industrial waste
  • marine debris
  • ocean acidification
  • ozone
  • polluter pays principle
  • sustainable tourism
  • technology
  • waste
  • water use
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TRE160049.pdf
Tripartite Interim Agreement between the Republic of Mozambique and the Republic of South Africa and the Kingdom of Swaziland for Co-Operation on the Protection and Sustainable Utilisation of the Water Resources of the Incomati and Maputo Watercourses
Treaty
Multilateral
Africa
Asia and the Pacific
Keywords:
  • conservation
  • ecosystem approach
  • ecosystem management
  • ecosystem preservation
  • ecosystem service
  • payment for ecosystem service
  • synergy
  • water use
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TRE-001811.doc
Convention conclue entre le Mali, la Mauritanie et le Sénégal relative au Statut juridique des ouvrages communs
Treaty
Multilateral
Keywords:
  • synergy
  • water use
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TRE-001988.doc

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