Sentence examples for transboundary from inspiring English sources

A lack of transboundary studies has impelled several regional NGOs to call for Laos to cancel the project.That will almost certainly not happen.

In 2002 they signed an agreement on "transboundary haze pollution", under which any country stricken by serious fires could call on its neighbours for help.

Philip Hirsch at the University of Sydney predicts that the loss of the fish catch for millions of Asia's poorest people will prove larger than the entire freshwater catch of Europe and West Africa combined.The United States and Finland, the largest donor to the MRC, are among nations urging Laos to wait for more scientific data on the likely transboundary impacts.

Until a UNESCO inventory in 2008, nobody knew even how many transboundary aquifers existed.

With reunification, many transboundary roads were reopened and road surfaces improved.

About a month later the controversial Xayaboury dam project on the Mekong River in northwestern Laos was also shelved for the time being by the Lao government following protests from international nongovernmental organizations and some Southeast Asian governments (including Vietnam) that the dam could have harmful transboundary environmental impacts.

La Amistad National Park was established in 1988 alongside Costa Rica's protected Talamanca Range La Amistad region; the two zones were designated a transboundary World Heritage site in 1990.

Crimes of particular concern for Interpol are trafficking in human beings, transboundary financial and organized crime, and international terrorism.

There is also significant illegal transboundary movement of e-waste in the form of donations and charity from rich industrialized nations to developing countries.

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, agreed to in 1989 and now adopted by a majority of nations, was meant to stop the dumping of toxic waste in poor countries.

"If that is the case, you would see a lot of infections in Asia by now," said Subash Morzaria, the regional manager for Asia and the Pacific at the Emergency Center for Transboundary Diseases, which is part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizationn.