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States shall take appropriate measures to strengthen the resilience of peasants and other people working in rural areas against natural disasters and other severe disruptions, such as market failures. 6. (...) States shall recognize and protect the natural commons and their related systems of collective use and management. 4. (...) States shall take measures aimed at the conservation and sustainable use of land and other natural resources used in their production, including, among others, through agroecology, and ensure the conditions for the regeneration of biological and other natural capacities and cycles.

Утверждение Генеральной Ассамблеей позволит неправительственным организациям и другим основным группам, фигурирующим в упомянутом спи- ске, продолжать свою подготовку для участия в Международном совещании, включая организацию поездок и мобилизацию финансовой поддержки. 1 A/59/409 Annex List of non-governmental organizations and other major groups recommended for accreditation to the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States 1. Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) Fernandes Industrial Centre, Administration Building, Eastern Main Road, Laventille Trinidad and Tobago Tel: +868 626 6062 Fax: +868 626 1788 E-mail: vijay@canari.org Website: www.canari.org Established: 1984 Summary of Organizational Focus and Activities: Analyses and promotes the participatory management of natural resources in the Caribbean through publications, technical assistance and training. (...) Programmatic areas address community health, community-based natural resource management, sustainable livelihoods for poverty alleviation, and good governance. 6. (...) Jamaica Environment Trust Earth House, 11 Waterloo Road, Kingston 10, Jamaica Tel: +876 960 3693; +876 906 9783 Fax: +876 926 0121 E-mail: jet@infochan.com Website: www.jamentrust.org Established: 1991 Summary of Organizational Focus and Activities: Strives to ensure excellent stewardship of Jamaica’s natural environment through a range of programmes designed to protect natural resources, increase environmental awareness and advocacy in civil society, and include environmental issues in national development planning.

Article 3 stipulates the priority of human health and natural environment over GMO’s economic benefits. (...) The state registration of GMOs and GMO products can be refused if sound scientific information proves that their designated use brings hazard to human health or natural environment. 11. The Law prohibits industrial production and use of GMOs and GMO products before their state registration. 12. (...) At the same time, information about GMO potential impact on human health and natural environment can not be considered as confidential and secret. 14.

In that resolution, the General Assembly noted that damage to the environment in times of armed conflict impairs ecosystems and natural resources long beyond the period of conflict, and recalled in particular Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter of the United Nations, according to which all Member States shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of any State in their international relations. (...) The total area of special environmental protection in Azerbaijan covers 890,000 hectares of land, of which 42,997 hectares are currently under Armenian military occupation, including 152 natural monuments, 5 geological objects, 2 nature reserves, 4 conservation areas and 7 lakes, with a wide range of plant and animal species. (...) In view of that urgent humanitarian problem, the Assembly demanded from Armenia its immediate withdrawal from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and the cessation of using water resources as tools of political influence or an instrument of pressure benefiting it.3 The environment is being severely damaged also as a result of the continuing barbaric exploitation of natural resources in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

During the mission, she met with different interlocutors including the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Natural Resources and Environment, Justice and Public Health and the local government of Chiang Mai. (...) According to the National Environmental Quality Act, the Ministry of Natural Re- sources and Environment regulates sewage and wastewater, as well as the quality of groundwater resources and surface water. (...) The Department of Groundwater Resources of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment manages the development of groundwater resources and carries out regu- lar monitoring of them.

Bolivia is also frequently faced with natural disaster. Many people interviewed by the Special Rapporteur suggested that Bolivia is increasingly affected by unpredictable natural disasters as a result of climate change. (...) Natural gas and oil production have been increasing. Bolivia produces about 355 billion cubic feet of natural gas and has the second largest reserve of natural gas in South America, after Venezuela (with reserves estimated at between 24 and 53 trillion cubic feet).22 More than 85 per cent of these natural gas reserves are located in the department of Tarija, with a further 10.6 per cent in Santa Cruz and 2.5 per cent in Cochabamba.

A municipal disaster management committee is in charge of ensuring an integrated and uniform approach to disaster management, while provincial-, atoll- and island-level disaster management committees have been assigned coordination, monitoring, preparedness, response and awareness-raising roles, and can receive claims and appeals emerging from a natural disaster. 21. While valuable for the purposes of establishing the roles and responsibilities of Government actors and coordination mechanisms in situations of natural disasters, the Special Rapporteur believes that the Bill should also provide a framework with regard to potential internal displacement. (...) The Government of Maldives has embarked on a comprehensive framework and action plan in terms of disaster risk reduction and other measures to prevent or minimize damage resulting from natural disasters and the effects of climate change. (...) In this context, a decentralized policy which enables island and atoll councils to better prevent and respond to natural disasters and gives them responsibility for their local development could be a very positive step.

Its Environment Programme focuses on protection of Tibet’s environment from unsustainable natural resource use activities, supports local participation in projects and programmes that impact natural resource use, facilitates links between Tibetan environmental advocates and international/regional environment and development organizations, and creates opportunities for consensus-building on environmental issues among Tibetan and Chinese actors. (...) Has submitted reports to the Commission on Human Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources — World Conservation Union (IUCN).

DOCUMENTS CIRCULATED FOR INFORMATION :WORLD CONFERENCE ON NATURAL DISASTER REDUCTION, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, 23-27 MAY 1994.

DOCUMENTS CIRCULATED FOR INFORMATION :WORLD CONFERENCE ON NATURAL DISASTER REDUCTION, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, 23-27 MAY 1994.