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The Anchorage Declaration

2009
Declaration
Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change
A call for action to abandon geoengineering techniques that negatively impact indigenous people's rights as agreed by consensus of the participants in the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change in Anchorage Alaska on April 24th 2009.

Biochar and Waste Law: A Comparative Analysis

2009
Scholarly Work
Caroline Van de bergh
This article provides a comparative analyses whether biochar is waste in the EU and the US and whether the pyrolysis treatment, transportation and storage of biochar may be exempted from the regulatory burden placed on the classification of waste.

Forest Management Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change in the United States

2008
Scholarly Work
Robert W. Malmsheimer, Patrick Heffernan, Steve Brink, Douglas Crandall, Fred Deneke, Christopher Galik, Edmund Gee, John A. Helms, Nathan McClure, Michael Mortimer, Steve Ruddell, Matthew Smith, John Stewart
This report recommends policy measures to guide effective climate change mitigation through forests and forest management, including a survey of carbon benefits from wood substitution, biomass substitution, and avoided land use change.

Convention on Biological Diversity COP 9 Decision IX/20

2008
International Legal Instrument
Convention on Biological Diversity
Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its ninth meeting to seek, in consultation with the IMO, the views of Parties, other Governments, and indigenous peoples on ocean iron fertilization.

Convention on Biological Diversity COP 9 Decision IX/16

2008
International Legal Instrument
Convention on Biological Diversity
Decision adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity at its ninth meeting requesting that Governments, in accordance with the precautionary approach, ensure that ocean fertilization activities do not take place until there is further research.

Ocean Iron Fertilization and International Law

2008
Scholarly Work
David Freestone , Rosemary Rayfuse
This article examines the application of the International Law of the Sea to ocean fertilization, with particular reference to the law’s dumping regime, which prohibits the dumping of wastes or other materials from vessels into the ocean.

Resolution LC-LP.1 (2008) On the Regulation of Ocean Fertilization

2008
International Legal Instrument
Contracting Parties to the London Convention and the London Protocol
A resolution from the thirtieth meeting of the Contracting Parties to the London Convention and the third meeting of the Contracting Parties to the London Protocol that addresses ocean fertilization activities.