Story | 19 Jun, 2024
Investing for Ocean Impact podcast, Season 3: Deep Sea Mining
The ocean’s seabed harbours a range of mineral reserves containing valuable metals and compounds. But under international law these resources have been designated “the common heritage of mankind”, a designation backed up by the body responsible for both preserving and allowing their use, the…
News | 21 May, 2024
On 21 May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) published its Advisory Opinion in response to t
Story | 14 May, 2024
The event was organized by the School of Sustainability and Law, National Law University, Meghalaya in Shillong, in association with IUCN WCEL Task Force on Rights of Nature.
Story | 08 Jan, 2024
IUCN WCEL contributes to publication on the 50 years of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
The contribution, authored by Grethel Aguilar Rojas and Nicholas A. Robinson, was published in the Policy Forum of Science Magazine (December issue).
Information brief | 2023
IUCN WCEL Briefing 5 of 6 for Plastics Treaty INC-2 Treaty Regime Interactions version 2
A core theme in United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) resolution 5/14 and subsequent discussions at INC-1 was the impact of treaty regime interactions upon the Plastic Pollution Treaty.
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IUCN WCEL Biodiversity Law Specialist Group
The Biodiversity Law Specialist Group was commissioned in January 2022 to spearhead the promotion of Biodiversity Law issues in the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.
The mission of the Biodiversity Law Specialist Group is to promote scholarship, discourse, capacity-building and…