Best Environmental Practices

Working Group 1 Starting sound practices early

(i) Best available techniques and best environmental practices

Improved and sustained hygiene (particularly hand washing), water safety and environmental sanitation practices.

The provisions of multilateral environmental agreements include obligations for conservation and environmental protection, prevention and control of pollution, and sound management of natural resources.

There are, of course, sound environmental and economic arguments against constructing large dams and even for decommissioning some.

And these practices have significant economic and environmental implications that we're already starting to see today.

Report of the first meeting of the Expert Group on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices

All states should commit to measures that reassure other states that their security practices are sound, while protecting sensitive information.

What can be done to raise awareness among the main stakeholders and general public and to foster environmentally sound waste management practices?

Unfortunately, some States allow vessels to fly their flag without ensuring that the fishing practices of those vessels are legal and sound.

A firm denial by the government should be seen as a sign that most of the American economy is fundamentally sound, and that American financial markets are sophisticated enough to be able to identify sound business practices.

Other significant environmental problems include land degradation caused by deforestation and inappropriate agricultural practices, water loss, and mangrove clearance for aquaculture.

However, the practices of some TNCs cause direct and indirect human rights violations and degrade basic social, economic and environmental standards.

The region also suffers negative environmental impacts from prevalent practices in energy and water, in addition to those generated by instability.

In Bhutan, we have made serious efforts to integrate the principles and practices of environmental sustainability into our development policies and programmes.

(b) To ensure that transboundary waters are used with the aim of ecologically sound and rational water management, conservation of water resources and environmental protection

At the same time, the sound management of chemicals is essential for environmental sustainability, which, in turn, is a prerequisite for sustainable development as a whole.

We reiterate our concern at the insufficiency of scientific information on the destructive environmental impact of deep sea fishing practices, in particular bottom trawling.

The Parties to the Stockholm Convention had established an Expert Group on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices, which was already considering this topic.

The introduction of best available techniques (BAT) and best environmental practices (BEP) to reduce or eliminate releases of toxic chemicals from sinter plants in Egypt

This may be the case with consideration of adoption and further work on the guidelines on best available techniques and guidance on best environmental practices.

To that end, the Committee should promote compilation, harmonization and dissemination practices for environmental economic accounting and related statistics in order to meet user needs.

Putting in place sound management practices, as well as introducing and enforcing codes of conduct, should increase the chances that services are delivered more ethically, effectively and efficiently.

The list of concrete measures contains a number of activities to improve general chemicals management practices, which would entail measures such as the development and implementation of cleaner production methods in accordance with best available techniques and best environmental practices.

Urges human rights bodies to be more systematic in addressing violations of rights associated with the practices of multinational companies, toxic waste and other environmental problems

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The Programme aims to follow the best practices in financial management, including transparent, cost effective and sound internal control of all financial resources in the field and at Headquarters.

There are three areas where transfer and effective use of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) could be of particular importance over the next few years addressing domestic environmental problems such as urban pollution enhancing energy and material efficiency and complying with environmental requirements in export markets.

Third session of the Expert Group on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices Relevant to Provisions of Article 5 and Annex C of the Stockholm Convention

For the purposes of the present report, the guidelines on best available techniques and provisional guidance on best environmental practices are hereinafter referred to as the guidelines .

It would also need to help poor countries cope with the quasi generalization of social and environmental responsibility standards that are increasingly shaping corporate practices and consumer demand.

The lack of mechanisms to compensate forest owners for environmental and social non market services encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

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For them, a sound economy requires a sound production structure.

(c) Promote the use of management tools to assess the impact on the environment of projects that may significantly affect forests, and promote good environmental practices for such projects

In addition, FAO is promoting more sustainable agricultural practices with a view to reducing negative environmental impacts and water pollution, through its integrated plant nutrient and pest management programmes.

They are ideally positioned to make an impact locally, given their willingness to adopt positive environmental and governance practices and their ability to improve living conditions by creating permanent jobs.

To help industries in the region upgrade environmentally, firms can now obtain special loans for which the Asian Development Bank assumes the risk a program made possible by Hong Kong s sound banking practices.

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Reaffirms the fundamental role of competition law and policy for sound economic development and the validity of the UN Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices

Topics for recent exploration have included land law, land tenure, women's security of tenure, local government training needs, city environmental profiles, best practices and safer cities, as well as information management.

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