Resources
Sub-decree on Water Pollution Control
The purpose of this sub-decree is to regulate the water pollution control in order to prevent and reduce the water pollution of the public water areas so that the protection of human health and the conservation of bio-diversity should be ensured.
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets.
Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Alam Sekitar & Anor v.Kajing Tubek & Ors & Other Appeals
The respondents are three of the 10,000 natives living in that part of Sarawak where the Bakun Hydro-Electric Project (‘the Project’) is situated. Following the commencement of the Project, steps were taken by the appellants to compensate the respondents and also to resettle them. The respondents did not challenge the compensation or the resettlement, but claimed that (i) the Project, if carried through, would adversely affect their fundamental rights in that their livelihood would suffer from the resulting impact on the environment.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an intergovernmental treaty developed to address the problem of climate change.
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992)
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development is a set of principles that recognize the importance of preserving the environment and set forth international guidelines for doing so.
Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors
The Guidelines have been formulated to assist Member States of the United Nations in their tasks of securing and promoting the effectiveness, impartiality and fairness of prosecutors in criminal proceedings. The Guidelines provide, among others, that States should ensure that the selection criteria for prosecutors should embody safeguards against appointments based on partiality or prejudice, excluding any discrimination against a person on the grounds of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, social or ethnic origin, property, birth, economic or other status.
Fisheries Act 1985
An Act relating to fisheries, including the conservation, management and development of maritime and estuarine fishing and fisheries, in Malaysian fisheries waters, to turtles and riverine fishing in Malaysia and to matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Act 226: National Parks Act 1980
An Act to provide for the establishment and control of National Parks and for matters connected therewith.
Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity A retrospective analysis in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan countries
This paper looks at the progress made in the implementation of the CBD and 2010 targets in the eight countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan. The paper was commissioned by ICIMOD, an inter-governmental institution mandated for the region, as one of its activities in support of the CBD and the International Year of Biodiversity 2010. Using the national reports to the CBD as the primary source, the paper examines the progress made by the countries in implementing the Convention.