Nitrogen Policies

 

This database compiles 2,726 nitrogen policies from 186 countries, sourced from the ECOLEX database and other databases, as originally provided for the publication 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

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 Ref ID Scale Sector Date of Text
Normative Instruction No. 35 regulating registration, packaging, labelling of soil corrective substances and other products used in agriculture.
LEX-FAOC144752
National Agriculture 04/07/2006
Decision No. 60/2004/QD-BCN approving the Scheme on Development of the chemical industry till 2010 in service of agricultural and rural industrialization and modernization"."
LEX-FAOC030886
National Agriculture 15/07/2004
Salzburg Thermal and Medicinal Waters and Health Resort Law 1997.
LEX-FAOC076240
National
Protocol on the protection of the Mediterranean Sea against pollution from land-based sources and activities.
LEX-FAOC142255
International
Memorandum of Understanding between Lebanon and Yemen in field of agriculture.
LEX-FAOC128820
International Agriculture 28/07/2004
Decreto Nº 133-96: Ley de creación de la Autoridad para el Manejo Sustentable del Lago de Atitlán y su Entorno.
LEX-FAOC033692
Regional 17/12/1996
Regulation on the methods and terms for the calculation and payment of compensation for the oxides released in the environment, in the form of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides expressed as nitrogen dioxide.
LEX-FAOC042075
National 07/07/2004
Ministerial Decree No. 172 validating the Regulation on licenses.
LEX-FAOC167967
National 03/04/2007
Drinking Water Management Act.
LEX-FAOC145474
Regional
Acuerdo por el que se expide la Estrategia Nacional de Cambio Climático.
LEX-FAOC069876
National 30/05/2013

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