Story | 26 Feb, 2019
WCEL joins IUCN delegation to UNFCCC COP 24
WCEL members attended the UN Climate Change Summit in Katowice, Poland in December 2018.
Story | 30 Jan, 2019
WCEL joins the OECD Water Governance Initiative
By Stefano Burchi & Owen McIntyre - WCEL has accepted an invitation to join the OECD Water Governance Initiative (WGI) as a new member and partner.
Story | 29 Jan, 2019
By Failing to Mitigate Climate Change, Ireland may be in Breach of Human Rights Law
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment releases "Statement on the human rights obligations related to climate change, with a particular focus on the right to life."
Story | 23 Jan, 2019
By Anemoon Soete - At the end of 2015, a court of first instance in the Hague declared the Dutch policy to mitigate climate change inducing emissions not fit for purpose and lacking a sense of reality. As a result, the court of first instance ordered the government to adjust its policy to…
Story | 18 Dec, 2018
GrowGreen: Chinese cities grow and with it, the need for green
Blog by Claire Warmenbol. Worldwide out of the 47 megacities, China alone counts 17. These are cities with a population in excess of 10 million people. Today over half of the Chinese mainland population lives in cities. Towards 2030, China aims for 70% of its population, about 900 million people…
Story | 03 Dec, 2018
Giant postcard with 125,000 cards exposed on Swiss glacier
Check out the first article of the Children as Champions of Climate Change - stories from all around the Planet series. More and more to come from different countries where children got engaged with Nature and took action by drawing attention to climate change, stay tuned!
Story | 02 Dec, 2018
New WCEL International, Regional and National Report: Le Droit Forestier Français
WCEL announces a new regional report by Anouk Ferté-Devin, Le Droit Forestier Français.
Story | 12 Nov, 2018
Deputy Chair Denise Antolini represented the Commission at the two-day meeting in September 2018 hosted in the city of Prague by IUCN State Member the Ministry of Environment of Czechia and chaired by IUCN Councillor for East Europe, North and Central Asia Michael Hošek.
Story | 06 Nov, 2018
A partial win for Greenpeace Belgium in air pollution case against the Flemish Region
By Sofie Vereycken - On 10 October 2018, in vzw Greenpeace Belgium v Flemish Region, the President of the Dutch-Speaking Court of First Instance of Brussels orders the Flemish Government to draft a comprehensive air quality plan for the entire region, subject to a penalty payment of 1.000 EUR…
Story | 29 Oct, 2018
Informal Members meeting for West and East Europe, North and Central Asia was arranged in Prague (Czechia) 24-25 of September 2018 by IUCN councilor Michael Hošek and Ministry of Environment of Czech Republic.