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
Government Resolution No. 182/2008 on the Management Plan for the Sado Estuary (PORNES).
LEX-FAOC099221
National 24/11/2008
Resolución Nº 3/SENASA/DG/D - Uso de los purines del ganado bovino en áreas de pastoreo y corta de pastos.
LEX-FAOC147923
National Agriculture: Livestock 05/05/2010
Regulations of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the protection of ecological environment of Li Jiang River Basin.
LEX-FAOC037526
Regional 24/11/2011
Decree Discharge Open Cultivation and Livestock Breeding.
LEX-FAOC169870
National waste
Act amending Act relating to greenhouse gas emission allowance trading (No. 29 of 2004).
LEX-FAOC052020
National 25/05/2012
Subsidies Guidelines on energy and climate protection - Energy and Climate Protection Guidelines.
LEX-FAOC027772
Regional energy
National Fertilizer Board Act.
LEX-FAOC157401
National Agriculture
National Environment (Waste Management) Regulations, 1999 (S.I. No 52 of 1999).
LEX-FAOC040736
National Waste 19/10/1999
Ministerial Decree No. 373 validating the Regulation of on the state registration of hazardous impact on the atmospheric air and the sources thereof.
LEX-FAOC163503
National 21/04/2000
Regulation respecting waste water disposal systems for isolated dwellings (R.Q. c. Q-2, r.22).
LEX-FAOC117212
Regional Domestic, Waste

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