About environmental rights and governance

In our globalized world, environmental threats require effective responses that promote peace, justice, development and the fulfilment of environmental and human rights. UNEP promotes sound environmental governance – the rules, policies and institutions that shape how humans interact with the environment. By building robust governance …

Environmental Governance Programme

For environmental governance, UNDP is facilitating stakeholder engagement in international policy processes, ensuring environmental targets align with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Biodiversity Framework. Additionally, UNDP supports legal reforms to enhance environmental policies globally. The UNDP Nature Pledge is …

Encouraging sustainable use of quarry resources

Environmental impacts such as air, noise and water pollution, water consumption, visual intrusion, ecosystem degradation, vegetation loss, increased road and rail traffic, greenhouse gas …

Socio-economic, environmental, and governance impacts …

This article examines the main impacts of the illegal logging activities with emphasis on the most important timber production regions. Although the discussion is focused on the environmental, socio-economic and governance impacts, it must be stressed that the term forest governance is the umbrella where the economy, the …

Environmental Fiscal Instruments for Quarry …

Environmental Fiscal Instruments for Quarry Management: Global Experience and Options for Lebanon Author: Joy E. Hecht ... Support to Reforms – Environmental Governance, Beirut, Lebanon Project ID: ENPI/2011/022-757 ... information programs to help industry find suitable "green" technologies, public information campaigns to …

Environmental Governance Update

The United Nations Environment Programme promotes sound environmental governance; we strengthen the laws, policies and institutions that shape how humans interact with the environment. This Environmental Governance update showcases our work on the development of national, regional and international environmental laws, …

Torr Quarry Case Study

After a quarry has closed, companies are expected to restore or improve the environment. Restoration can include: Creation of Wildlife Reserves or Habitats: By planting native trees and creating water bodies, a closed quarry can be transformed into a sanctuary for birds, insects, and other wildlife, encouraging biodiversity.

When Are Voluntary Environmental Programs More …

We meta-analyze 103 studies of 23 voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) to assess how their governance quality, or the rigor of their internal institutional mechanisms, drives their ability to improve their participants corporate environmental and financial performance.

CARIB Glassworks Limited and EMA Partner to Rehabilitate Quarry

On Tuesday 19th November 2019, Carib Glassworks Limited-CGL and the Environmental Management Authority -EMA participated in a ceremonial tree planting to commence the quarry rehabilitation project of the Matura sand plant . This project is in collaboration with the EMA through its Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management-IWEco …

Sand and sustainability: Finding new solutions for …

Sand and sustainability: Finding new solutions for environmental governance of global sand resources. GRID-Geneva, …

Environmental Law and Governance

Environmental Law and Governance stand as pillars in the journey towards sustainable development. Recognizing the intricate connections between the environment, social dynamics, and economic dimensions, UNEP is committed to supporting countries in developing and implementing integrated environmental policies.

Environmental compliance and auditing in the …

Chris will discuss many of the key environmental aspects for quarry operators such as water, air, noise, blasting and biodiversity …

Global Environmental Governance

Global Environmental Governance What is global environmental governance? Global environmental governance refers to all the rules, procedures and institutions that direct the processes of global environmental protection. Environmental issues became part of the international agenda in the early 1970s. Since then,

Vulnerability of informal settlements in the …

Knowledge of environmental risk and urban vulnerability in this context is constructed through detailed empirical research, conducted in the Quarry Road West informal settlement. However, this …

Assessing the Impact of Quarrying as an Environmental …

The Environmental Impact of Quarrying as an Ethical Crisis. Residents in the community have been continuously concerned about all the negative environmental effects of the quarry. The company ignored the neighbourhood and did not know about the laws controlling quarry operations, which led to an ethical dilemma.

The APA approved a granite mine in the Adirondacks.

For the first time in nearly 100 years, a granite mine in the southern Adirondacks will soon be back in business. The Adirondack Park Agency approved a mining permit for the White Lake Quarry at ...

Sargent Ranch Quarry

Final reclamation of the last surface mining phase and the aggregate processing facility would occur at the end of the project's life. The project requires adoption of a Reclamation Plan and issuance of a Conditional …

Quarry Environmental Governance Program

In this course we examine local, national and international environmental governance issues, with a focus on ethical principles, theories and frameworks that may be used to …

Governance of Natural Resources in the Philippines:

v contents preface vii executive summary ix 1. challenges for natural resource governance 1 2. policies, laws, and institutions for natural resource management 3 3. denr financing for natural resource management 16 4. the unfinished agenda for effective natural resource governance 22 5. implementing rights to natural resources: experience from the field 23 …

Sky Quarry Launches Innovative Offset Program, Invites

Salt Lake City, UT, Dec. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sky Quarry, a leading green technology provider, is excited to announce the launch of its Offset Program that diverts asphalt shingle waste ...

Lebanon

UNDP Report: Lebanon faces potentially dire socio-economic and environmental impacts from Gaza war . The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a report titled "Gaza War: Preliminary Findings on the Socio-Economic and Environmental Impact on Lebanon", providing a preliminary analysis of the impacts and potential …

223 Environmental Governance Jobs, Employment June 14, …

223 Environmental Governance jobs available on Indeed. Apply to Faculty, Environmental Consultant, Sustainability Consultant and more!

What is good corporate governance? 9 characteristics (with …

For this reason, good governance underpins successful businesses today, where expectations around ESG (environmental, social and governance) issues like sustainability and diversity are ever-growing. Focusing on such matters encourages a mature governance framework, helping organizations make the right decisions at the …

Vulcan Materials Company – Southeast | Water for the Future

Bellwood Quarry, formerly owned by Vulcan Materials, is being transformed into a reservoir which will create a 30-day water supply for Atlanta residents… Environmental, Social & Governance Download 2023 Sustainability Report

Saudi Arabia's 2021 Environmental Regulatory Reforms – …

Saudi Arabia's 2021 Environmental Regulatory Reforms – Part 1By Dr Ian James, WKC Group Co-Founder and Director The article provided below is our first part to describing regulatory reforms in Saudi Arabia. We have just issued Part 2 which described in greater detail the transfer of environmental governance from GAMEP to a number …

UMN launches innovative graduate-level certificate program …

This announcement has been cross-posted from a news release first published by UMN News & Events, which you can read here.. An innovative certificate in Sustainable Environmental, Social and Governance (SESG) Leadership — the University of Minnesota's first graduate-level program in this specialty — will address a growing …

The environmental impact of extraction: A holistic review of the quarry

1. Introduction. With rising concerns for sustainability, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to address environmental, social, & governance (ESG) risks to stay relevant and competitive in today's markets (Boulhaga et al., 2023).ESG is often considered a comprehensive way of reporting on a company's sustainability, yet …

GCCA Sustainability Guidelines for Quarry Rehabilitation …

06 Global Cement and Concrete Association 4. Operational Context 4.1 Scope and Principles Scope The guidelines are designed to be applicable to: • All quarry sites that are under a company's management control, including: new quarries ("green-field" projects), active quarries, inactive quarries, and

CHAPTER 9: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL …

The Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) presented in this chapter reflects the implementation procedures and mechanisms for the mitigation measures and monitoring activities of the expected impacts previously discussed in Chapter 6 and 7. The ESMP assigns ce rtain tasks for

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROCESS IN …

Public participation is an important element of good environmental governance. Public participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment process will: i. Ensure that the process is open and transparent; ii. Ensure that citizens' needs and concerns are considered in the proposed