Resources 'Article 7: Public Participation Concerning Plans, Programmes and Policies Relating to the Environment'
The Aarhus Convention Implementation Guide is therefore intended as a convenient non-legally binding and user-friendly reference tool to assist policymakers, legislators and public authorities in…
Article written by Martin Hedemann-Robinson for the June 2014 volume of the European Energy and Environmental Law Review, pages 102-114.
On the occasion of the first session of the UNEA, A Global Symposium on Environmental Rule of Law gathered Chief Justices, Attorneys General, Judges, Chief prosecutors, Auditors General, leading…
In 2015, the Ministry of the Environment made the PARTICIPA website available in recognition of the need to increase public involvement in decision-making in environmental matters. The aim of the…
The SDSN is leading a Global Finance for Sustainable Development Group to provide recommendations for the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July 2015. This process is…
Ensuring successful public engagement in policy can be difficult.Four key challenges – communicating complexity, providing balanced information, creating space for deliberation and accessing broader…
The Urgenda Foundation (Urgenda) brought this claim against the Netherlands, alleging that it has a legal obligation to take more ambitious measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Urgenda argued…
Environmental information and public participation - The right to live in favourable environment; access to justice granted to individuals before the Constitutional Court contesting the violation of…
Public participation and omissions by public authorities (Art. 6, 7, 8 and 9) – The obligation to create a National Council of the Environment for public participation according to Italian law is not…
Public Participation concerning Plans, Programmes and Policies Relating to the Environment – The simplification of planning legislation concerning highways in the Walloon Region of Belgium is not…
