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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 'transparency'

On the fourth day of the Meeting of the Parties for the Aarhus Convention and the PRTR Protocol, the Budva Declaration on Environmental Democracy for Our Sustainable Future was adopted.
At the Meeting of the Parties for the Aarhus Convention in Budva, Montenegro, environmental NGOs from Kazakhstan are claiming that the country is not going far enough to fulfill its obligations to…
According to Maia Bitadze, the Chair of the Aarhus Conventions Meeting of the Parties, environmental issues cannot be left out of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Aarhus Convention is…