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India's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) observes that India is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, with its vast population dependent on the growth of its agrarian economy, expansive coastal areas, and the Himalayan region and islands. India thus submitted its INDC, keeping in view its development agenda, particularly the eradication of poverty coupled with its commitment to following the low-carbon path to progress and being sanguine about the unencumbered availability of clean technologies and financial resource from around the world.

The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) is the basic instrument for implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity at the national level. It was prepared in order to fulfill the commitments of Bangladesh towards the objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity, namely conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.

The accused was found guilty of throwing acid on a woman which resulted in superficial to deep burns to her body and permanent blindness in her right eye. While the judgment was in favor of the woman, the prominence placed by the decision on the face of the victim for being the most beautiful part of a woman may indicate a limited appreciation of women.

The Executive Order recognized the need to facilitate the coordination and monitoring of the Public-Private Partnership programs and projects by converging these functions to the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) as the lead oversight agency. The Executive Order reorganized and renamed the Build-Operate-Transfer Center to the Public-Private-Partnership Center which shall be an attached agency of the NEDA.

The Disaster Management Act was enacted to establish a machinery for forward planning to ensure the efficient, prompt and effective management and control of natural disasters in the country. The Act establishes the National Disaster Committee, provincial disaster committees, and a National Disaster Centre.

The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) embody principles that relate to the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. The UNGPs implement the United Nations "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework.

The Climate Change Action Plan for the Ministry of Information is the action plan of the ministry for responding to the threats and opportunities from climate change. The ministry has identified five prioritized action areas responding to climate change for implementation. The implementation of the measures will will raise public awareness about the climate change and response measures both adapting to new climate and reducing carbon footprint.

The fundamental law declares that the State of Indonesia shall be a unitary state in the form of a republic. Sovereignty is in the hands of the people and implemented according to the constitution. It provides for the structure of government, the territory of Indonesia, citizenship and recognition of human rights.

The constitution of Nauru provides for, among other fundamental rights, the right to life and the right to property. It also provides that the right to property is limited when property is injurious to the health of human beings, animals or plants.

The case challenges plans to build a coal-based thermal power station in the Sundarbans, described as the world's largest mangrove forest and listed as a World Heritage site. While a Rule Nisi was issued, the case has not progressed.