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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

An Irish Supreme Court has unanimously rejected arguments by the National Assets Management Agency (Nama) that it is not a public authority subject to freedom of environmental information requests.…
Friends of the Earth Cymru (NGO) has to pay Welsh Government œ10,000 after failed M4 Relief Road judicial review challenge. Under the Aarhus Convention those granted leave for judicial reviews on…
The article deals with the question if Austrian citizens have a right to clean air in accordance with the Air Pollution Control Act ("Immissionsschutzgesetz Luft", IG-L), and how such a…