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
NOM-049-ECOL-1993: Características del equipo para la verificación de los niveles de emisión de gases contaminantes provenientes de motocicletas.
LEX-FAOC135049
National Transport 18/10/1993
Decree-Law No. 259/92 governing entities empowered to act in the field of the environment.
LEX-FAOC175205
National 20/11/1992
Water (General) Rules (Cap. 372).
LEX-FAOC050259
National 1972
Public Health (Offensive Trades: Storage, Treatment and Distribution of Animal Excreta and Faecal Matter) Regulations 1966.
LEX-FAOC041726
Regional Agriculture, Waste
Order No. 121/2005 on the guidelines for monitoring greenhouse gas emission and providing relevant information to the concerned authorities.
LEX-FAOC001299
National 31/01/2005
Law on Agriculture and Rural Development.
LEX-FAOC050426
National Agriculture 29/05/2009
Law No.10390 dated 3.3.2011 on the use of fertilizers.
LEX-FAOC037498
National Agriculture 03/03/2011
Decree No. 37 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection validating the Regulation on the modalities of elaboration of technological rates of emissions to the atmospheric air.
LEX-FAOC132276
National 08/06/2009
Loi n°022/2008 du 10 décembre 2008 portant Code Agricole en République Gabonaise.
LEX-FAOC068379
National Agriculture 10/12/2008
Governmental Decree No. 625 validating rates of fees for environmental pollution.
LEX-FAOC107529
National 10/09/2015

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