A new Aarhus Centre for the Caspian Sea subregion is being set up in Kazakhstan. A workshop on the scope and functions of the Caspian Sea Centre was held in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, in April 2009, through…
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Organization at Geneva published a commemorative edition of United Nations…
Draft guidelines for the development of national legislation on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters were presented to the UNEP Governing Council…
Aarhus Centers have been important tools for promoting environmental governance in countries where environmental issues and potential conflicts have a security dimension. Under an OSCE-led initiative…
Since its first edition in Macao, ICEGOV has been evolving into a global forum that brings together practitioners, developers and researchers from government, academia, industry and non-governmental…
EPEAT is a system to help purchasers evaluate, compare and select electronic products based on the IEEE 1680 family of standards for electronic product environmental assessment. Provisions of the…
To celebrate 10th anniversary of the Aarhus Convention, Aarhus University held a conference in close cooperation with the French Presidency of the European Union Council, the Danish Ministry of…
The 2008 session of the Council of Europe’s Forum for the Future of Democracy was held in Madrid from 15 to 17 October 2008. The main theme was “e-democracy”. Six parallel workshops dealed with the…
An international climate conference, “Beyond Kyoto: Addressing the Challenges ofClimate Change”, involving more than 1,000 participants, including prominent representatives from science, industry,…
Since 1983, the biennial International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) series has evolved into the premier international forum for the fight against corruption. The 13th IACC is themed as “Global…
