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WELCOME TO THE AARHUS CLEARINGHOUSE
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).

LATEST NEWS & RESOURCES 'confidentiality of commercial and industrial information'

Commentary on the benefits of PRTRs for government, industry and the public. The author analyses the potential of PRTRs as an informational tool for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), as an…
This is the second edition of the Case Law of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee. It attempts to summarize the practice of the Compliance Committee of the Aarhus Convention. Since its set up…
First Aarhus convention center is open today in Sarajevo. With support off Mayor of Sarajevo office and OSCE Mission in B&H. Environmental NGO have huge expectation from it.