Through the adoption of resolution 33/22, the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights “to prepare concise and action-oriented draft guidelines as a set of orientations…
The study examined legal questions on access to justice – of environmental-NGOs, individuals and municipalities – and the extent and the intensity of the judicial review which are of special…
The European Commission has initiated several projects on environmental information management and reporting (a workshop will be held Brussels on 8 February 2018) and on developing an assessment…
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency offers a translation of a generic process for making datasets available to different target groups, applicable for all types of data publication. Linked is…
The project addresses the challenge to retrieve information on environmental data scattered about different locations and systems, and to assess examples of best practice of active dissemination of…
This issue of the Biosafety Protocol News is a joint Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety / Aarhus Convention Cooperation on Public Access to Information and Public Participation in the area of…
Duty to give reasons: The Supreme Court explained the extent of the duty on local planning authorities to give reasons for their decisions to grant planning permission, including where applications…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, presenting framework principles on human…
Standing – Those affected or likely to be affected by environmental damage must have access to justice to challenge such damage; this includes those with use rights that have been affected (such as…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, with regard to the relationship between…
