What is the Aarhus Convention?

Capacity Global's introduction to the Aarhus Convention places emphasis on the Convention's potential to provide socially excluded communities with the tools they need to influence and challenge decisions that will result in the degradation or destruction of the environment. It highlights the importance of the Convention to achieving environmental justice. With links to legal information online.(Original source: http://www.capacity.org.uk/resourcecentre/article_aarhaus.html)