Draft guidelines for the development of national legislation on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters were presented to the UNEP Governing Council…
Aarhus Centers have been important tools for promoting environmental governance in countries where environmental issues and potential conflicts have a security dimension. Under an OSCE-led initiative…
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Organization at Geneva published a commemorative edition of United Nations…
"The Essential Principles of Climate Science" presents important information for individuals and communities to understand Earth's climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches…
Since the inception of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the Council of Europe, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)…
The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers adopted a Recommendation on e-democracy (CM/Rec(2009)1) offers all European governments substantial guidelines and principles when dealing with e-…
This United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website allows the public to track environmental and public health information. The National Environmental Public Health Tracking…
NCCR Democracy is an interdisciplinary research programme launched by the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2005. The programme examines the key challenges to democracy today and traces them to…
The proposal for consolidation of the European Community directives addressing industrial emissions (COM (2007) 844 and 2007/0286/COD) was adopted by the Commission in December 2007.
The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive has been in place for over 10 years and the Commission has undertaken a 2 year review with all stakeholders to examine how it, and the…
