Nitrogen Policies

 

This database compiles 2,726 nitrogen policies from 186 countries, sourced from the ECOLEX database and other databases, as originally provided for the publication 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

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 Ref ID Scale Sector Date of Text
Order No. 96 on subsidies for buffer zones along rivers and lakes.
LEX-FAOC028687
National Agriculture 28/01/2010
Guideline No. 6 approving the methodology of the Environmental Impact Assessment.
LEX-FAOC144178
National 27/12/2006
Resolución Nº 464 de 2017 – Por la cual se adoptan los Lineamientos estratégicos de política pública para la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria y se dictan otras disposiciones.
LEX-FAOC157530
National Agriculture 09/12/2017
Order No. 45 of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources validating the List of pollutants for the determination of the chemical status of the water files of surface water and groundwater and the environmental potential of an artificial or substantially modified surface waterbody.
LEX-FAOC041653
National 06/02/2017
Regulation No. 6 on methods and procedures for the measurement of harmful substance point-source emissions discharged to the atmosphere.
LEX-FAOC069781
National
Resolution No. 68/2005 establishing the National Classification System for Emissions according to air pollution sources (SNIERPA).
LEX-FAOC156072
National 17/03/2005
Regulation amending the Regulation on the conditions, manner and form required for exercising the right of recourse for fertilizer.
LEX-FAOC092366
National Agriculture 01/02/2016
Ministerial Decree No. 881 on the validation of maximum impacts on water bodies.
LEX-FAOC098631
National 30/12/2006
Decree on protection of nature and landscape.
LEX-FAOC137391
Regional
Malta’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2012-2020.
LEX-FAOC100349
National

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