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
Regulation on Preventing Water Pollution.
LEX-FAOC038964
National 15/12/1984
Acuerdo Nº 36/MINAET - Oficializa el Programa País Carbono Neutralidad.
LEX-FAOC169024
National 21/05/2012
Order No. 01.10.32.4-7 of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Protection validating sanitary and epidemiological standards set for contents of nitrates if foodstuffs of vegetable origin.
LEX-FAOC127989
National Agriculture 29/06/2005
National Planning for Prevention and Control of Groundwater Pollution (2011-2020).
LEX-FAOC009286
National 28/10/2011
Order No. 891 on system operation and application of power transmission grid.
LEX-FAOC159570
National energy 17/08/2011
Development Loans Fund Act 1967 (Cap. 234).
LEX-FAOC004880
National Agriculture
Order No. 210 of the Ministry of Natural resources and Environmental Protection validating the Regulation on the method of calculation of emission of pollutants to the atmosphere in the course of uncontrolled burning of oil and oil products.
LEX-FAOC068547
National energy 26/07/1999
National Fertiliser Policy
LEX-FAOC015983
National Agriculture 2016-08
Government Resolution No. 62/2008 approving the Alvão Natural Park management Plan (POPNAL).
LEX-FAOC008633
National 07/04/2008
Decreto Nº 29.782/MAG - Reglamento sobre la agricultura orgánica.
LEX-FAOC068256
National Agriculture 03/08/2000

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