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A number of environmental and wildlife groups have called on Minister for Agriculture and Marine Simon Coveney to ensure the Government’s food strategy has an adequate strategic environmental…
Belarus misunderstood the recommendation of the Compliance Committee of the Aarhus Convention.Despite some measures taken for the implementation of these recommendations, the country continues to…
More than a year ago, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon likened Rio+20 to a “free-market revolution for global sustainability,” calling for the event to inspire innovations that move the world…
At Rio this week, a sister conference quietly showed how judges in courts and tribunals across the world are adapting to give practical effect to laws for the protection of the environment
As of 20 June 2012, Ireland has become the latest country to ratify the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental…
Sven Alkalaj, UNECE Executive Secretary, was one of the keynote speakers at the event Choosing Our Future: Open and Participatory Sustainable Development Governance, organized by the World Resources…
The side events listed below will be held at the margins of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and will promote the Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on PRTRs.
First Aarhus center in Bosnia and Herzegovina is open today in Sarajevo. With support of OSCE mission in B&H, and office of Mayor of City Sarajevo, first Aarhus center is situated in Center for…
A two-day sub-regional conference on the implementation of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the…
