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The ICPR’s ability to adapt to a variety of challenges over the years, to add more to their list of tasks, and make the most reasonable and equitable decisions for the Rhine Basin is most likely why the Rhine Basin has overall low relative risk as reported by the Transboundary Waters Assessment programme. [4]
Working Group on Monitoring and Assessment The focus is establishing and implementing joint programmes for monitoring the conditions of transboundary waters, including floods and ice drift, as well as transboundary impacts. Also, this Working Group prepares periodic assessments on the status of transboundary waters and international lakes in ...
Conventions within the UNEP Regional Seas Programme; Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions; Energy Community (Energy Community South East Europe Treaty) (ECSEE) Espoo Convention Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, Espoo, 1991
The Convention sets out the obligations of Parties—that is States that have agreed to be bound by the Convention—to carry out an environmental impact assessment of certain activities at an early stage of planning. It also lays down the general obligation of States to notify and consult each other on all major projects under consideration ...
This program area includes the following projects: [15] The Kagera Transboundary Integrated Water Resources Management and Development project launched in December 2005. The project is shared between Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda. The Mara Transboundary Integrated Water Resources Management and Development project in the Mara and the ...
India, according to Mohan Katarki, an Indian expert on water disputes, can build a dam of its own to contain the “flash floods” that China can create and to even out the flow of water in general.
Due to the fact that the E40 waterway is a transboundary project, it is subject to international conventions ratified by Ukraine (in particular Espoo Convention, The Aarhus Convention),according to which Environmental Impact Assessment should be carried out in a single package in all three countries.
The Programme's objectives are to: • Monitor, assess and report on the world's freshwater resources and ecosystems, water use and management, and identify critical issues and problems; • Help countries develop their own assessment capacity; • Raise awareness on current and imminent/future water related challenges to influence the global ...