Welcome to the Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental Democracy.
This web portal showcases information on laws and practices relevant to the public's right to:
• access environmental information
• participate in environmental decision-making, and
• achieve justice on environmental matters
The Aarhus Clearinghouse provides information relevant to the implementation of Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development at the global and regional level, as well as national levels all over the world. It also facilitates the collection, dissemination and exchange of information related to the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (in short: Aarhus Convention).
On the Álftanes peninsula, a good ten kilometres from downtown Reykjavík, lies a unique lava field called Gálgahraun. The towns of Hafnarfjörður, Álftanes and Garðabær were all built around the 8,000…
The 'Energy – Transparency Centre of Knowledge' (E-TRACK) of the European Commission organizes an Open Seminar on public participation in radioactive waste management. The seminar will take…
Scotland is suffering: obesity levels are amongst the highest in the world, wages remain low, unemployment has still not recovered to pre-crash levels and food bank usage has sky rocketed in the past…
