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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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Today in the Majilis of the Committee on Ecology and Environment was adopted a bill "on amendments and additions to some legislative acts of Kazakhstan on environmental issues," which…
A green local politician sues against a possibly illegal planning process regarding an examination license for fracking intentions in Wunsiedel, Germany. According to the Aarhus Convention, which is…
The officially recognized environmental organization "Lebensraum Mattigtal" handed in a petition to the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions dealing with the bypass Mattighofen…