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
Ethiopian Agricultural Sample Enumeration Commission Establishment Proclamation (No. 238/2001).
LEX-FAOC104090
National Agriculture 31/05/2001
Royal Decree No. 1,078 / 2015 - Regulates the direct granting of aid for the acquisition of alternative energy vehicles and for the implementation of electric vehicle charging points in 2016, MOVEA.
LEX-FAOC079774
National Transport 27/11/2015
Order No. 342 on Denmark-Germany cooperation for the protection of waterbodies.
LEX-FAOC077805
International 08/03/2016
Law on public sewage disposal facilities.
LEX-FAOC118965
Regional waste
Waste Water Emission Ordinance - Stabilisers.
LEX-FAOC161631
National waste 18/07/2000
Law No. 593 of 2004 on protection, reproduction and management of wildlife.
LEX-FAOC144943
National 09/07/2004
Law No.1 of 2007 establishing Ministry of Agriculture in Iraqi Kurdistan.
LEX-FAOC045642
National Agriculture 03/04/2007
Decision No. 1386/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on a General Union Environment Action Programme to 2020 ‘Living well, within the limits of our planet’.
LEX-FAOC044213
National 20/11/2013
Regulation on protection, importation, exportation and supply of organic, organ mineral and micro-biological fertilizers and soil conditioners.
LEX-FAOC052883
National Agriculture 04/06/2010
Environment Protection Act 2002 (No. 19 of 2002).
LEX-FAOC085997
National 11/07/2002

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