News Archive
Call for Papers: Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection
The 6th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law will be held in Mexico City, Mexico, from 10-15 November 2008. The theme will be “Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection.” …
23 Apr 2008 | News story
New Legal Officer joins the ELC
Jane Bulmer has recently joined the team at the Environmental Law Centre as a Legal Officer. …
21 Apr 2008 | News story
Call for Papers: Climate Law in Developing Countries Conference
A conference on 'Climate Law in Developing Countries post-2012: North and South Perspectives' will be held from 26 – 28 September 2008 at the University of Ottawa, Canada, hosted by the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. …
18 Apr 2008 | News story
Climate Change and the Law in the Pacific Islands
In March 2008, IUCN Legal Advisor, Pepe Clarke, presented a paper on Climate Change and the Law in the Pacific Islands at the National Environmental Law Association (NELA) annual conference in Fremantle, Western Australia. …
31 Mar 2008 | News story
ELC hosts CEL Law Papers Award winner
Louise Camenzuli from Sydney, Australia, the winner of the 2007 Alexandre Kiss Environmental Law Papers Award, sponsored by the Commission on Environmental Law, is visiting the Environmental Law Centre in Bonn for two weeks in March 2008. …
20 Mar 2008 | News story
Call for Papers - 2008 Alexandre Kiss Award
The IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) has the mission to advance sustainability through the development of legal and policy concepts and instruments and through building the capacity of societies to develop and implement environmental law and policy, in furtherance of the IUCN mission. …
11 Mar 2008 | News story
Policy, Law and Environmental Flows
What is the appropriate policy and legal framework to regulate environmental flows within river basins? What are the ways in which competing water uses can be reflected in law and policy? …
10 Mar 2008 | News story
IUCN CEL Steering Committee member participated in first WARC meeting
IUCN CEL Vice Chair Ms. AL-Sharifeh Nawzat bint Ali attended the first meeting of the West Asia Regional Committee (WARC) on Monday 21 January 2008 in Amman, Jordan, at the invitation of Dr. Odeh Al Jayyousi, IUCN Regional Director of West Asia Office (WAME). …
12 Feb 2008 | News story
A Change of Climate
Prof. Meinhard Doelle, a specialist in international and domestic law relating to climate change, has joined the staff of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre for five months to work on linkages between biodiversity and climate change. …
25 Jan 2008 | News story
New publication on Access and Benefit-sharing
IUCN Environmental Law Centre has published the first three volumes of the ‘ABS Series’ – a five-volume sub-series of the ELP’s Environmental Policy and Law Papers. The Series provides intensively researched expert analysis by internationally respected authors and contributors on key issues of access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing under the CBD. …
17 Jan 2008 | News story
