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Rule of Law and Freshwater Conservation in the Amazon basin
Flavia Rocha Loures [email protected]
WWF Side Event: Pan-Amazon, Green Hydropower
Development and Freshwater Ecosystems7th World Water Forum
Gyeongju, 13 April 2015
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The Legal Research Project
1. Legal governance of freshwater protected areas
2. Freshwater conservation in international law
3. Role and relevance of global water instruments in the Amazon basin (Legislative Council Building,
Hong Kong)
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Transboundary Water Resources: A Case for Multi-level Legal Governance
UN Watercourses Convention;
UNECE Water Convention
Cooperation across border areas
between local communities
Global
Regional
Basin
Sub-basin
SADC Protocol, Water Framework
Directive
Amazon Treaty
National
Sub-national/local
National laws incorporating concerns
with transboundary waters
Agreements on the Mekong, Congo
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1. Freshwater Protected Areas
� The science behind it – Review of available guidance
• Landscape relationship
• Hydrological processes
• Connectivity: longitudinal, vertical, lateral
• Exogenous threats
• Human presence
• Institutional coordination
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1. Freshwater Protected Areas
� Legal basis – some examples:
• International : World Heritage Sites, Ramsar sites, Biosphere Reserves
• Domestic : Scenic Rivers (US), Heritage Rivers & Natural Catchment Areas (Victoria state, AUS), Hydrological Reserves (Spain), Protected Rivers (Colombia), inland waters in a PA national policy (Brazil)
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2. Freshwater Conservation in International Law
Courtesy of NASA
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The Amazon basin and the
existing cooperation
regime
Madeira Hydropower Complex, EIA 2004
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Testing the OTCA regime
Wilson, International Rivers
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Room for improvements? Who would gain?
Lucía Ortiz, FOE Brasil
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E-flows in regional instruments
�ASEAN
�SADC
�EU WFD
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E-flows in basin agreements
�Mekong
�Sava
�Spain -Portugal
�US-Canada
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3. Global instruments:
The UN Watercourses Convention
�Background
�Importance
�Brief overview
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The UNECE Water
Convention
�Background
� Implementation tools
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Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifer
1) Antecedents
2) Content
3) Importance
4) Next steps
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