Resources 'Article 7: Public Participation Concerning Plans, Programmes and Policies Relating to the Environment'
Indroducing GIS-based civic engagement apps that are "improving the performance and image of government by helping citizens actively participate in government on their terms". The apps are described…
Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique is a practitioners’ handbook that builds upon the experience of a pilot project that was awarded the United Nations ‘…
The 'Energy – Transparency Centre of Knowledge' (E-TRACK) of the European Commission (EC) is a joint initiative agreed between the Directorate General for Energy and the Joint Research…
The 1998 Aarhus Convention constitutes a landmark international agreement to promote public participation, not only domestically, but also at the international level. In 2005, its parties adopted…
Public participation has become a recurring theme and a topical issue in the field of international environmental law, with many multilateral environmental instruments calling on states to guarantee…
TIRANA, 26 March 2015 – More than 40 representatives of central and local governments, Aarhus Centres and civil society from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia discussed the…
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 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…
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…
Article written by Martin Hedemann-Robinson for the June 2014 volume of the European Energy and Environmental Law Review, pages 102-114.
