Cover Texte 19/2015 Legal Instruments to implement the objective “Land Degradation Neutral World” in International Law
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Legal Instruments to implement the objective “Land Degradation Neutral World” in International Law


The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”. Secondly, the legal study investigates whether and how, at national level, effective instruments could be put in place as international obligations.

Series
Texte | 19/2015
Number of pages
126
Year of publication
Author(s)
Susanne Altvater, Elizabeth Dooley, Ennid Roberts
Language
English
Project No. (FKZ)
40008
Publisher
Umweltbundesamt
File size
2142 KB
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