Story | 01 Oct, 2018
Distinguished state supreme court justices from several U.S. States, and international jurists from OAS and UN member States, as well as selected academics, scientists, leading experts, ambassadors and diplomats from across the globe came together from 22-23 August 2018 to discuss Environmental…
Story | 23 May, 2018
Follow us at the Communities, Conservation & Livelihoods Conference 2018
CEESP News -- Communities Conservation Research Network (CCRN)
From every part of the world (except Antarctica), over 400 people will converge on Saint Mary’s University, in Halifax, Canada, in late May. They are focused on one thing – the power of local communities to make a difference…
Story | 14 May, 2018
Research to determine whether ocean plastics accelerate Arctic melt
IUCN and academic partners are conducting research in the Arctic and Baltic regions to establish to what extent plastic particles accelerate ice melt in the Arctic Circle. Dark plastic particles attract sunlight, warm up and melt the ice around it. The ongoing …
Story | 29 Nov, 2017
Mexico's largest Marine Protected Area: Revillagigedo, the Mexican Galápagos
On 24 November 2017, Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, signed a decree creating Mexico's largest marine reserve to date, covering 150,000 square kilometres around the Revillagigedo Archipelago, a volcanic archipelago 240 miles southwest of the Baja Peninsula.
Story | 17 Oct, 2017
Global conference: Communities, Conservation & Livelihoods, May 2018
CEESP News - by the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) and the CommunityConservation Research Network (CCRN)
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) and the Community…
Story | 06 Oct, 2017
2nd Inter-American Congress on the Environmental Rule of Law Convenes in Santiago (Chile)
On September 4-6, the Organization of American States (OAS), UN Environment, the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment (GJIE), the World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), the Supreme Court of Chile, and other partners convened the 2nd Inter-American Congress on the Environmental…
Story | 06 Oct, 2017
Meeting of the Environmental Justice Committee of the Ibero-American Judicial Summit
On Saturday, 2 September, 2017, judicial leaders from across Ibero-America met at the Supreme Court of Chile, in advance of the 2nd Inter-American Congress on the Environmental Rule of Law. The meeting and the Congress were co-sponsored by the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, the…
Story | 26 Sep, 2017
Richard Ottinger: 2017 ABA Environmental Distinguished Achievement Award
Long-time WCEL Member Richard Ottinger has received the 2017 Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy from the American Bar Association.
Story | 08 Sep, 2017
ELI: 2017 Environmental Achievement Award
The Environmental Law Institute will present the 2017 Environmental Law Achievement Award to Achim Steiner “for his visionary leadership on global sustainability and rule of law in the environmental setting” on 18 October 2017 in Washington, D.C.
Story | 31 Aug, 2017
Canada’s newest and largest Marine Protected Area: Tallurutiup Imanga – Lancaster Sound
Since the late 1960s, the Inuit living in the Baffin region of the Canadian Arctic have sought protection for their traditional territory – an area which has provided their people with food, clothing and shelter for millennia. On 14 August 2017, the Government of Canada (Parks Canada), the…