The forest also mitigates climate change effects by storing CO2 and providing bio-materials that can act as temporary carbon stores (harvested wood products) or as carbon substitutes, replacing carbon-intensive materials and fuels, as well as acting as a ‘safety valve’ to store water and reduce the risk of flooding in human settlements.

An artificial object which lies inside a body of water and has one of the following types of function: - Retains the water; - Regulates the quantity of water; - Alters the course of the water; - Allows watercourses to cross each other.

- At ACP level : thematic priorities are derived from the EU-Africa partnership - which has been formally endorsed under the EU-Africa Dialogue - and the Facility intends to build bridges and foster dialogue with African institutions either of global nature like NEPAD and AU or of sectoral character like the AMCOW and African Water Facility. During the Panafrican Water Conference in Addis Ababa in December 2003, AMCOW has released a resolution to support the proposed ACP-EU Water Facility. The proposed Facility is also in line with the objectives of the G8 Actions Plans on Water and on Africa. Similar processes are being developed in the ...[+++] Caribbean and Pacific regions.

The Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of Transboundary Watercourses took decades to agree and is not yet in force, but will provide a legal framework for sharing the resources of international rivers and is thus of major interest to many countries.

"Internal waters" means the waters of the landward side of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, extending in the case of watercourses up to the freshwater limit (the place in a watercourse where, at low tide and in a period of low freshwater flow, there is an appreciable increase in salinity due to the presence of seawater).

Internal waters: the waters of the landward side of the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured (extending in the case of watercourses up to the freshwater limit (the place in a watercourse where, at low tide and in a period of low freshwater flow, there is an appreciable increase in salinity due to the presence of seawater)).