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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).

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The article deals with probable drillings for hydrocarbon in the Ionian Sea along the Italian coast whereby members of the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) point out deficient public participation…
In a decision by the Court of Justice of the EU it banned the European Commission from keeping information regarding hazardous waste and water quality confidential.
During a regular meeting of the Dialogue Platform on Human Dimension,Vadim Ni, chairman of the Kazakh eco-forum of public organizations, spoke about the difficulties concerning public access to…