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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 'Article 4: Access to Environmental Information'

In November 2022, Greenpeace Nordic and the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court, claiming that the Finnish Government failed to take sufficient…
In response to the letter from Michel Forst, the UN Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders, the Federal government stated that Switzerland is not obligated to intervene in the dispute between…
Mandatory Milojko Spajić says the new government will advocate for further affirmation of Montenegro as the first constitutionally declared ecological state in the world and adhere to modern…