Nitrogen Policies

 

This database compiles 2,726 nitrogen policies from 186 countries, sourced from FAOLEX data as made available via the ECOLEX database, originally provided by Kanter et al., 2020  and subsequently extended for South Asia by the GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub by Yang et al., 2022 (966 N policies). The database is searchable by country, keyword, date, policy instrument, economic sector and geographical scale.

References

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (n.d.). FAOLEX database. https://www.fao.org/faolex

United Nations Environment Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations & International Union for Conservation of Nature. (n.d.). ECOLEX: The gateway to environmental law. https://www.ecolex.org/

Kanter et al. (2020) Gaps and opportunities in nitrogen pollution policies around the world. Nat Sustain3, pp.956–963.

Yang et al. (2022) Policies to combat nitrogen pollution in South Asia: gaps and opportunities. Environ. Res. Lett., 17, 025007.


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Policy Title ECOLEX/FAOLEX Ref ID Scale Sector Date of Text
Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution) Regulation (Chapter 413M).
LEX-FAOC141073
Regional Transport 01/06/2008
Executive Order establishing the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PRPI) (No. 1061).
LEX-FAOC014834
National Agriculture 05/11/1985
Order under section 23A of the National Environmental Act, 1980.
LEX-FAOC117996
National Waste 14/01/2008
Decree No. 36 of 2006 (V. 18.) FVM of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development concerning the authorization, storage, marketing and utilization of yield increasing materials.
LEX-FAOC082223
National
Upper Austria Effluent Waste Water Law 2001.
LEX-FAOC078672
Regional waste
Drainage (Jersey) Law 2005 (No. L. 3 of 2005).
LEX-FAOC153860
National Waste
Decreto Nº 27.041/MAG/MEIC - Reglamento técnico RTCR 176/1991: Toma de muestras de agroquímnicos.
LEX-FAOC166657
National Agriculture 05/01/1998
Regulation on the emission of substances into the air from industrial plants dealing with the production of cement.
LEX-FAOC150031
National industry 05/04/2007
Fertilizers and Fertilizing Act.
LEX-FAOC076664
National Agriculture 10/07/2007
Regulations of Ningxia Hui Autonooumous Region on water source protection areas of Jing river.
LEX-FAOC023021
Regional 09/04/2014

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