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
Resolución Nº 408 - Permiso sanitario para la incineración y coincineración.
LEX-FAOC134096
National Waste 27/05/2004
National Water Resources Plan 2017.
LEX-FAOC076787
National
Ministerial Decree No. 559 validating the Regulation on calculation of environmental fees for environmental pollution.
LEX-FAOC071807
National 19/09/2011
Rwanda Environmental Policy.
LEX-FAOC069751
National Agriculture 2003
Order No 2-152 of 2006 of Minister of Agriculture of Georgia on Rules for Importing Pesticide and Agro-chemical Samples, Sample Drugs and Analytic Standards
LEX-FAOC038503
National Agriculture 07/08/2006
Trust Territory Air Pollution Control Standards and Regulations.
LEX-FAOC148610
Regional 25/06/1980
Regulation on the level of pollutants in the air.
LEX-FAOC167514
National 17/10/2012
Decision No. 68/2003/QD-BNN promulgating the list of fertilizers subject to quality standard announcement.
LEX-FAOC015759
National Agriculture 16/06/2003
National Policy for Farmers 2007.
LEX-FAOC040634
National Agriculture 11/09/2007
NTN 05 002-98 sobre el control ambiental de las lagunas cratéricas.
LEX-FAOC134493
National 11/11/1998

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