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
Public Health (Sanitation and General) Regulation 1973.
LEX-FAOC144071
National
Regulation No. 379 date 25.5.2016 approving the regulation on the quality of drinking water.
LEX-FAOC137102
National 25/05/2016
Decree No. 39 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection validating the Instruction on regulation of emission of pollutants to the atmospheric air under adverse weather conditions.
LEX-FAOC033802
National 09/06/2009
Tana River County Agriculture Development Act, 2016 (No. 18 of 2016).
LEX-FAOC052015
Local Agriculture 27/09/2016
Plant Protection Act (No. 13 of 1997).
LEX-FAOC120516
National Agriculture 04/07/1997
Decreto Nº 181 - Ley de Cambio Climático del Estado de México.
LEX-FAOC169394
Regional 19/12/2013
Fertilizers Act.
LEX-FAOC164123
National Agriculture
Seychelles’ National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2015-2020.
LEX-FAOC095991
National 2015
Disposal of dead animals 1981 (By-law No. 8).
LEX-FAOC086265
National Waste 1981
Regulation (EC) No. 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics.
LEX-FAOC048909
National waste 25/11/2002

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