Story | 10 Dec, 2021
European Environmental Law Congress on Legal Indicators will be held in Paris on 16 - 17 December
Legal practitioners, environmental law professors, and judges will convene online and in-person for the IUCN-WCEL 2nd World Environmental Law Congress European regional event on Measuring the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators. This hybrid event will take place online…
Story | 09 Dec, 2021
IUCN WCEL High Level Judicial Event Opens in Rio de Janeiro
The IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) and its partners opened the high-level judicial segment of the 2nd World Environmental Law Congress yesterday at the Supreme Court of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The three-day event, The Role of Judges: Environmental Law…
Story | 06 Dec, 2021
Endangered Caspian Seal Habitat Awarded Important Marine Mammal Area Status
Today, the IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas, a joint task force of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the World Commission on Protected Areas, announces that Caspian seals have been awarded three Important Marine Mammal Areas, or IMMAs, as part of a tranche of 14 new IMMAs…
Story | 01 Dec, 2021
More than fifty judges and legal scholars will gather in person and online to present at the High-Level Judicial segment of the IUCN-WCEL 2nd World Environmental Law Congress, The Role of Judges: Environmental Law 2030 and Beyond. The hybrid event will be held at the Supreme…
Story | 17 Nov, 2021
The following tribute to the life of Veit Koester was prepared by WCEL Chair Emeritus, Professor Nicholas A. Robinson on 15 November 2021.
Story | 14 Nov, 2021
Former Chair of WCEL Ethics Specialist Group awarded 2021 Carlowitz Sustainability Prize
WCEL would like to congratulate Dr. Klaus Bosselmann, former Chair of the WCEL Specialist Group on Ethics, for receiving the 2021 Carlowitz Sustainability Prize (international category).
DG Statement | 10 Nov, 2021
IUCN statement to UN Climate Change Conference 2021
During the 10 November plenary session of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland (COP26), IUCN Director General Dr Bruno Oberle delivered IUCN’s statement on the many ways nature can help address the climate crisis. Read the full statement below.
Story | 10 Nov, 2021
Global launch of the Great Blue Wall
Movement launched to conserve and restore marine and coastal biodiversity while unlocking the development of a regenerative sustainable blue economy
At the UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow, Western Indian Ocean states and partners including International Union for Conservation of…
Story | 29 Oct, 2021
The Right to a Healthy Environment
By Yann Aguila - On October 8, 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as an important human right. While this right is already recognized in more than 150 national jurisdictions, its…
Story | 29 Oct, 2021
This International Black Sea Action Day, 31st October, 11 habitats of Red-List Endangered Black Sea harbour porpoises and bottlenose dolphins as well as Vulnerable Black Sea common dolphins have been formally awarded Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) status by the…