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Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that is still heavily dependent on coal and large hydropower at 67% and 31% of total electricity production, respectively. Significant initiatives are emerging to…

Independent experts of the UN Human Rights Council call on States to fully integrate human rights standards and principles in the rules for implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change (the…

The Aarhus Centres and Public Environmental Information Centres from 15 countries met together in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, for a 2018 annual meeting to discuss their support and good practices in…

Ms Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to food and Mr. Dainius Pūras, Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health, welcomed the decision by a California…

 Speaking ahead of World Environment Day on 5 June 2018, the head of UN Environment Mr. Erik Solheim and the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment Mr. John Knox issued a…

Living Asia reports that on 28 December 2017 activists of the Russian NGO Ecological Watch for the North Caucasus (EVSC) were attacked. The coordinator of this organization, Mr. Andrei Rudomakha…

Representatives of government entities, as well as of the private sector, met with Aarhus Centre delegates and NGOs in Astana at a seminar jointly organized by the OSCE and other organizations such…

The article discusses the recent High Court ruling re-imposing fixed costs for disputes in planning and environmental cases and thus overturning rules previously introduced by the Ministry of Justice…

The article describes the case of an association in the city of Murcia which was denied access to the Social Council of the city, causing the intervention of the Ombudsman. The case eventually…

This article discusses the new coal fired power plant plan in Spain. According to the International Institute for Law and the Environment, the Spanish Government is obligated to undertake a strategic…