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 Sustain, 3, pp.956–963.

Anastasia L 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
Decree No. 555 of the Cabinet of Ministers validating the Regulation on calculation and payment of environmental tax.
LEX-FAOC067205
National
Fish and Game Code - Chapter 8 of Division 2; Significant Natural Areas (secs. 1930 - 1940).
LEX-FAOC115821
National
Circular No. 02/2008/TT-BCT guiding the conditions and the grant of permits for trading in high-content ammonium nitrate.
LEX-FAOC109841
National Agriculture 19/02/2008
Notification on monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions.
LEX-FAOC174420
National 22/07/2014
Acuerdo Nº 281 - Procedimiento para otorgar permisos de importación.
LEX-FAOC156477
National Agriculture 24/08/2006
Marine Environmental Protection (issuance of permits for dumping at sea) Regulations No... of 2013.
LEX-FAOC097880
National 28/06/2013
Decreto Legislativo Nº 233 - Ley del Medio Ambiente.
LEX-FAOC123054
National 24/04/1998
Enforcement Regulations for Law on Prevention of Air Pollution of the People's Republic of China.
LEX-FAOC146374
National 24/05/1991
Regulation No. 6 on the conditions and the requirements for construction and operation of installations for the incineration and installations for co-incineration of waste.
LEX-FAOC048971
National waste 28/07/2004
Marine Pollution Act.
LEX-FAOC027936
National Transport

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