Environmental Law
Water & Law for parliamentarians of Arab states
Unprecedented and interactive, the Parliamentarian Water Help Desk is an initiative that consists of a data base containing international water legislation and scientific information that will provide a common ground for parliamentarians and other stakeholders on water issues. Through a network of experts on international water legislation, it will develop, among other products, guidelines for parliamentarians around the globe. …
23 Jun 2010 | News story
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Ridge to Reef workshop develops new global initiative
Healthy well-managed river basins and coastal areas, where people and nature thrive, is the vision behind the development of a new IUCN initiative 'Ridge to Reef'. …
21 Jun 2010 | News story
ELC hosts Alexandre Kiss Award winner
César Ipenza, recipient of the CEL Alexandre Kiss Award, was the guest of the IUCN ELC for one week. …
17 Jun 2010 | News story
National experts trained on Legal Framework for Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)
From 2 to 9 June, 2010 the IUCN Environmental Law Centre held the third round of training courses under the InWEnt programme “Regional Environmental Policy in the South Caucasus”. Three-day training courses focusing on “Legal Frameworks for Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS)” were carried out for staff members from the Environmental Ministries as well as other Ministries and NGOs in Georgia and Armenia. A third training will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 30 June to 02 July, 2010. The final activity within this series of trainings will be an international seminar taking place in Bonn, Germany, in September 2010. …
15 Jun 2010 | News story
Old friends visiting the ELC
On Tuesday June 8th, two long-time friends of the ELC, Dick Ottinger and Meinhard Doelle, stopped by to meet with ELC staff and interns during the UNFCCC negotiations where they were both participating as official observers. …
15 Jun 2010 | News story
Investing in Water Knowledge - Sharing WANI Lessons between Oceania and Central America
“Remote communities and watershed challenges such as disaster risk reduction, are what we share” said Dr. Milika Sobey, Water Coordinator for the IUCN Oceania Regional Office based in Fiji. …
15 Jun 2010 | News story
Transboundary watersheds governance: Building capabilities in Guatemala
Senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with technical advisers and transboundary negotiation staff met in Antigua in Guatemala on 27-28 April 2010 to attend a course on Shared Water Governance. … | Spanish
03 Jun 2010 | News story
ELC Director - Award with distinction
A ceremony at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires on 10 February 2010 marked the presentation of the prestigious Faculty Award to Dr. Alejandro Iza, Director of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre. The Award is presented occasionally for the best doctoral thesis based on individual research.
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27 Apr 2010 | News story
Trabajando con parlamentarios sobre cambio climático
El Dr. Alejandro Iza, director del Centro de Derecho Ambiental, en su carácter de experto internacional en derecho de aguas, fue invitado personalmente a participar en la última sesión del Parlatino y exponer sobre los aspectos fundamentales de la conservación de los glaciares en el contexto del cambio climático. …
30 Mar 2010 | News story
Legal Frameworks for REDD: Design and Implementation at the National Level
Since 2007, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) has become a major focus of negotiations towards a post-2012 agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). An effective REDD mechanism could provide a strong tool for mitigating global climate change as well as enable developing countries to enhance tropical forest protection and sustainable development options. It is no coincidence, however, that many high-deforestation countries likely to host a majority of REDD projects also have the weakest forest governance records in recent decades, resulting in large part from inadequate design and implementation of forest laws. …
19 Mar 2010 | News story
