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Diplomacy & Politics Glossary
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10 entries- Aarhus Convention
- Absolute Liability Principle (Oleum Gas Leak case)
- Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) under the Biological Diversity Act
- Aichi Biodiversity Targets
- Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981
- Antarctic Treaty
- Antarctic Treaty System
- Arctic Council
- Article 48A (Protection and Improvement of Environment)
- Asiatic Lion Conservation Project (Gir)
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11 entriesC
29 entries- Cali Fund (Digital Sequence Information)
- Cartagena Protocol
- Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
- Central Asian Flyway
- Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
- Central Zoo Authority
- Chilika Lake
- CITES
- CITES Appendix I
- CITES Appendix II
- CITES Appendix III
- Climate Finance
- Climate Finance Gap
- Climate Justice
- CMS Appendix I
- CMS COP13 Gandhinagar
- Coase Theorem
- Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification
- Community Forest Resource Rights
- Community Reserve
- Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act 2016
- Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA)
- Consent to Establish and Consent to Operate
- Conservation Reserve
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)
- Copenhagen Climate Summit
- Corbett Tiger Reserve
- Critical Wildlife Habitat
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4 entriesE
21 entries- E-Waste (Management) Rules 2022
- Eco-Sensitive Zone
- Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZ)
- Ecological Security
- Endemic Species
- Energy Conservation (Amendment) Act, 2022
- Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
- Environmental Diplomacy
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Environmental Impact Assessment Notification 2006
- Environmental Kuznets Curve
- Environmental Peacebuilding
- Environmental Programme
- Environmental Refugee
- Environmental Refugees
- Environmental Security
- Espoo Convention
- Eutrophication
- Ex-situ Conservation
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
- Externality
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2 entriesG
9 entriesH
1 entryI
16 entries- IMO
- Important Bird and Biodiversity Area
- In-situ Conservation
- Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros
- Indian Rhino Vision 2020
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- International Civil Aviation Organization
- International Panel on Climate Change
- International Panel on Climate Change Reports
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- IPCC Reports
- IUCN Critically Endangered (CR) Category
- IUCN Extinct in the Wild (EW) Category
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- IUCN Vulnerable (VU) Category
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1 entryK
9 entriesL
6 entriesM
9 entriesN
9 entriesO
2 entriesP
17 entries- Paris Agreement
- Paris Climate Agreement
- Paris Rulebook
- People's Biodiversity Register
- Periyar Tiger Reserve
- Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
- Pigouvian Tax
- Plastic Waste Management Rules 2016
- Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary
- Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure
- Project Cheetah (Kuno National Park)
- Project Dolphin
- Project Elephant
- Project Lion
- Project Snow Leopard
- Public Trust Doctrine
- Pygmy Hog (Porcula salvania)
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3 entriesS
16 entries- Sambhar Lake
- Sangai (Manipur Brow-Antlered Deer)
- Sariska Tiger Reserve
- Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act
- Silent Valley National Park
- Simlipal Biosphere Reserve
- Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)
- Solid Waste Management Rules 2016
- Species Recovery Programme for Great Indian Bustard
- State Pollution Control Board
- Stockholm Convention
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
- Sundarban Wetland Ramsar Site
- Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve
- Sundarbans National Park
- Sundarbans Tiger Reserve