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National Strategy and Action Plan for Sustainable Consumption and Production in Jordan 2016 – 2025.

National Policies
December, 2015
Jordan

Jordan’s SCP Strategy and National Action Plan (NAP) is a nation-wide document that addresses key human activities with a particular impact on the Jordanian environment. The overall goal of the Strategy is to achieve a shift to sustainable patterns in three identified priority areas of consumption and production, namely agriculture/food production, transport, and waste management, to be met through the identification of operational objectives and specific actions.

Presidential Decree No. 1136 on additional measures regarding preservation of green areas and provision of landslide safety.

Regulations
November, 2016
Azerbaijan

This Decree aims at preserving green areas and providing landslide safety during construction. In order to determine the best construction site in cities, urban green spaces shall be mapped on paper and in electronic form. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the State Committee for Urban Planning and the State Committee for Construction and Architecture shall publish electronic maps of urban green spaces and landslide site on their official website after approved by the Council of Ministers.

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.

National Policies
December, 2005
Tonga

Tonga’s biological diversity and natural resources are protected, conserved and enriched and are appreciated and enjoyed by her present and future generations and the rest of the world. The Guiding Principles are: Tonga has full sovereign rights over her biological diversity and natural resources. 2) The Government of Tonga takes the leading role to ensure the protection, conservation and sustainable management of its biodiversity, through effective governance and leadership and in full consultation with all stakeholders.The following 8 Theme Areas are defined: 1) Forest Ecosystems.

Malawi National Land Policy.

National Policies
January, 2002
Malawi

The goal of the National Land Policy in Malawi is to ensure tenure security and equitable access to land, to facilitate the attainment of social harmony and broad based social and economic development through optimum and ecologically balanced use of land and land based resources.A number of specific land policy objectives have to be satisfied in order to achieve the overall goal, particularly: a) Promote tenure reforms that guarantee security and instill confidence and fairness in all land transactions: Guarantee secure tenure and equitable access to land without any gender bias and/or disc

Decreto por el que se declara Área Natural Protegida, con el carácter de reserva de la biosfera, la región conocida como Sierra deTamaulipas, localizada en los municipios de Aldama, Casas, González, Llera y Soto La Marina, en el Estado de Tamaulipas.

Regulations
December, 2016
Mexico

Mediante este Decreto se declara área natural protegida, con el carácter de reserva de la biosfera, la región conocida como Sierra de Tamaulipas, que se localiza en los municipios de Aldama, Casas, González, Llera y Soto La Marina, en el Estado de Tamaulipas. Las zonas núcleo y de amortiguamiento de la reserva de la biosfera Sierra de Tamaulipas, se subzonificarán en el programa de manejo, conforme a lo previsto en los artículos 47 bis y 47 bis 1 de la Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente.

Loi-cadre nº 94-018 relative à l'environnement.

Legislation
June, 1994
Comoros

Cette loi porte régime de base en matière d'environnement. Elle vise, notamment, à: préserver la diversité et l'intégrité de l'environnement; créer les conditions d'une utilisation quantitativement et qualitativement durable des ressources naturelles; garantir à tous les citoyens un cadre de vie écologiquement sain et équilibré. Les citoyens sont tenus à participer collectivement pour la sauvegarde de l'environnement.

Regulation on internal order in the nature park "Biokovo".

Regulations
June, 2001
Croatia

This Regulation defines the protection, management and other environmental issues aimed to be used as internal rules for the safe and sustainable use of the Croatian Nature Park Biokovo, and also prescribes offenses and determines the penalties for noncompliance with the prescribed requirements.

Implements: Law declaring the mountain Biokovo as Nature Park. (1981-06-08)

Politique Nationale de l’Aménagement du Territoire, 2006.

National Policies
December, 2005
Madagascar

La Politique Nationale de l’Aménagement du Territoire vise les objectifs suivants: l’Equipement du territoire national; l’Amélioration des conditions et du cadre de vie des populations; la Promotion des collectivités territoriales; la Préservation de l’environnement; et le Renforcement de l’intégration sous régionale.

Mining Act.

Legislation
December, 1966
Fiji

This Act makes provision for the control of mining and related operations in the Fiji Islands.The Act consists of 68 sections divided into 7 Parts: General (I); Prospecting and mining (II); Damage and compensation (III); Registration, approval and stamping of documents (IV); Miscellaneous (V); Penalties (VI); Regulations (VII).All minerals of every description, including crude oil,shall be deemed always to have been the property of the Crown and shall be deemed not to have been parted with under any alienation, dedication, lease, licence or permit of such lands save in so far as such rights

Ley Nº 9373 - Protección a los ocupantes de zonas clasificadas como especiales.

Legislation
June, 2016
Costa Rica

La presente Ley de Protección a los ocupantes de zonas clasificadas como especiales, establece que por el plazo de veinticuatro meses se suspenderá el desalojo de personas, demolición de obras, actividades y proyectos en la zona marítima terrestre, zona fronteriza y patrimonio natural del Estado, salvo aquellas que sean ordenadas mediante resolución judicial o administrativa en firme, fundamentándose en la comisión de daño ambiental o cuando exista peligro o amenaza de daño al medio ambiente.

Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

Legislation
November, 2016
Australia

The purpose of this Act is to maintain a healthy, productive and resilient environment for the greatest well-being of the community, now and into the future, consistent with the principles of ecologically sustainable development (described in section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991), and in particular: a) to conserve biodiversity at bioregional and State scales; b) to maintain the diversity and quality of ecosystems and enhance their capacity to adapt to change and provide for the needs of future generations; c) to improve, share and use knowledge, includi