Aarhus: QUNO is hosting a side event at the Aarhus Convention's Meeting of the Parties on "Building peace through environmental access rights"

Aarhus is a UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention linking environmental rights and human rights, focusing on the interactions between the public and public authorities. The Meeting of the Parties is the main governing body of the Convention. An important focus for QUNO's work on Natural Resources is the preconditions for effective public participation around natural resource management, as a means of preventing destructive conflict and promoting equitable and peaceful natural resource management. We see the Aarhus Convention as a valuable contribution to managing environmental matters in a constructive way.

(The website also includes QUNO's briefing paper for the convention.)