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 and in-person at the Université Paris Saclay from Thursday 16 December through Friday 17 December 2021. The event will consider the use of environmental indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of legal regimes including national laws, international conventions, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Measuring the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators is organized by the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), in cooperation with the Institute of Public Law Studies (IEDP), French Society for Environmental Law (SFDE), the International Center for Comparative Environmental Law (CIDCE), and the Normandy Chair of Excellence for Peace (CNP).

The event will include discussions on the following topics:

The use of legal indicators to measure the effectiveness of international and national environmental law
Measuring implementation of the Ramsar Convention on the Protection of Wetlands of International Importance
Measuring the effectiveness of the Protocols of the Barcelona Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastline of the Mediterranean Sea
Measuring the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 13 on climate action

Interpretation will be provided in French, English, and Spanish.

Please register to participate online here.

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