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The Myanmar Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction is a disaster risk reduction roadmap covering prioritized interventions across Myanmar until 2020. With a long-term vision and awareness of deep-rooted underlying drivers of disaster risk, it has set overall targets for 2030.
The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. The guidance brief deals with potential health risks from climate change including: increase of waterborne and vector-borne diseases, heat-related illnesses, injuries and deaths, food insecurity, and increased malnutrition.
This Guidance Brief is intended as a guide for understanding key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions to effectively address climate change in Myanmar. The guidance brief focuses on the pivotal role of the education, science and technology sectors in creating a knowledge-based society to drive Myanmar's inclusive and resilient economic social development.
To make provision for the conduct of international arbitrations based on the model law adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on International Commercial Arbitration and to give effect to the New York Convention on the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, and for related matters enacted by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji.
The Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) of Timor-Leste identifies a number of potential measures for mitigating climate change for each sector, with emphasis on the forestry, agriculture and energy sectors. Measures include afforestation, forest conservation, renewable energy and energy efficiency. In terms of adaptation, the INDC identifies priority adaptation measures in key sectors including food security, water resources, human health, natural disasters, forests, biodiversity and coastal ecosystems resilience, livestock production, physical infrastructure, oil and gas production, and national institutional .
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia created a guiding principle for judges in the trial of cases which involve women, to ensure the protection of women against discrimination in the justice system and ensure that they have equal rights in their access to justice.
The Action Agenda proposes a path for the development of India and its people. It starts by presenting expenditure proposals for three years based on revenue forecasts for the Central government. The Action Agenda proposes linking Central government expenditures to future priorities. It suggests shifting the composition of expenditures by allocating a larger proportion of additional revenues that become available over time to high-priority sectors.
Environmental and Climate Adaptation Levy (Plastic Bags) Regulation 2017, Legal Notice No. 61 (Fiji)
The Regulations implement the Environment and Climate Adaptation Levy Act, particularly on the levy imposed on plastic bags. It provides, among others, that the levy on plastic bags must be collected by a cashier at the point at which a plastic bag is provided by the business to a consumer.
The main purpose of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Financing Framework and Implementation Plan is to support the execution of the NAP process by increasing the possibilities for Cambodia to access additional adaptation finance. The framework makes both sort, medium and long term recommendations for priority climate change actions.
General Recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence (GBV) against women updates General Recommendation No. 19. Building on general recommendation No. 19, the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women urges States parties to strengthen the implementation of their obligations concerning GBV against women, within their territory or extraterritorially. The Committee also recommended that States parties take certain measures enumerated therein, in the areas of prevention, protection, prosecution and punishment, redress, data collection and monitoring, and international cooperation to accelerate the elimination of GBV against women.