Story | 23 Apr, 2020
In April 2020, the European Parliament published a study on biodiversity as a human right to inform the European Parliament’s work on how the European Union’s external action can best contribute to a holistic and human rights-based approach aimed at stopping biodiversity loss and degradation.…
Story | 16 Apr, 2020
The IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Launches New Webinar Series
The IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law is launching a new webinar series featuring environmental law and policy experts from around the world.
Story | 13 Apr, 2020
Pandemic Control Measures and the Rule of Law
In a trilogy of essays, WCEL Member, Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti addresses global pandemic (Covid-19) and the role of the legal system.
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
Sustaining Earth: Bring Law, Society and Sustainable Development Together
CEESP News: by Ravi Saxena, Assistant Professor (Politics and International Relations), Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, NMIMS (Deemed to be University), Mumbai, India
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of sustaining life and the earth. There is the need to have a balance between…
Story | 07 Apr, 2020
Private Sector Engagement and Conservation in West Bengal: monitoring Compensatory Afforestation
CEESP News: by Sudeep Budhaditya Deb, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, West Bengal Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority, Government of West Bengal, India
Regulations, incentives or collaborations are three major modes for involving the private sector in the…
Story | 06 Apr, 2020
WCEL Member Highlights the Important Role of Environmentally Dedicated Courts
WCEL Member Eeshan Chaturvedi assesses the role of dedicated environmental judicial systems in “Green Courts: The Way Forward?”
Story | 01 Apr, 2020
By Denise Antolini - Judges and experts from around the world gathered in Hawaiʻi to discuss the role of judges in interpreting and developing the Environmental Rule of Law.
Story | 25 Mar, 2020
Nature-based Solutions for Water Infrastructure at your service
'Natural water infrastructure' is not built infrastructure. Instead, it is shaped, grown, eroded or deposited by nature over time. It refers to services nature provides for free, such as mangroves protecting shorelines from storms, peatlands sequestering carbon, wetlands filtering contaminated…
Story | 23 Mar, 2020
UNESCO Publishes World Water Development Report 2020 – Water and Climate Change
By Stefano Burchi, Chair, WCEL Water and Weltands Specialist Group
Story | 16 Mar, 2020
Report: the Baltic Sea binds five reports on plastics into one compilation, linked by location
Plasticus Mare Balticum is a compilation of five different reports with a common base: The Baltic Sea, the countries which border it, the plastics flowing into it, and the lives which are affected by it.
1. The marine plastic footprint.
2. Microplastic effect on frozen seas.…