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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 'environmental information'

The European Commission has launched infringement proceedings against Austria for failing to comply with new EU rules on waste and railway standardization by the 2020 deadline. Austria is…
This article concerns the Liljeholmsbadet, a bath in Stockholm that the city plans to demolish. The case was subject to debate for several years and the bath was favored to be preserved by the Land…
The article discussed the growing concerns regarding the impact of (per- and polyfluoroalkylated) PFAS on public health, underscoring the importance for general practitioners to comprehensively…