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
Ministerial Decree on water quality standards and requirements to be met by purification installations to protect the Venice lagoon.
LEX-FAOC087416
National 23/04/1998
Regulation No. 28 of 2005 on air protection.
LEX-FAOC095682
National 22/02/2005
Decreto Nº 39.951/S - Reglamento de calidad del aire para contaminantes criterio.
LEX-FAOC169028
National 09/08/2016
Order No. 210 of the Ministry of Natural resources and Environmental Protection validating the Regulation on the method of calculation of emission of pollutants to the atmosphere in the course of uncontrolled burning of oil and oil products.
LEX-FAOC068547
National energy 26/07/1999
Regulation on monitoring of pollutants emissions in the air.
LEX-FAOC161394
National 27/01/2014
Government Resolution No. 62/2008 approving the Alvão Natural Park management Plan (POPNAL).
LEX-FAOC008633
National 07/04/2008
Water Resources Act 1975.
LEX-FAOC160358
Regional
Ley que crea la empresa descentralizada denominada «Fertilizantes de Tlaxcala».
LEX-FAOC121218
Regional Agriculture 25/10/1977
Order of 1 October 2007 on the charge for pollution of water by livestock farming activities.
LEX-FAOC077963
National Agriculture 01/10/2007
Fertilizers Act 1993.
LEX-FAOC042911
Regional Agriculture

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