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Environmental Rule of Law: Critical to sustainable development
… and private, including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and … development as well as a platform for peace and justice. Violations of environmental law undermine … and practical means to increase transparency, strengthen access to information and enhance public participation in …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… Has sufficient administrative and other action been taken to implement the principle? 12 Has implementation resulted in … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Access to information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Access to justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
Rule: Reforming water governance
… good law, policy and institutions, and the steps needed to build a coherent and fully operational water gover- nance … ment measures, monitoring and inspection) ensures that justice can be reached when a contraven- tion of the water … first the basic right of all human beings to have access to clean water and sanitation at an affordable price. …
Developing a Global Soil Regime
… and sets out the premise for the community of nations to support the negotiation and drafting of such an … warming to 2 degrees Celsius, and to ensure everyone access to enough food. We can achieve none of these goals … 7; see also International Bar Association Climate Change Justice and Human Rights Task Force Report, Achieving Justice …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… Studies, Elodie Manuel, Analyst, International Justice Initiative, Washington, DC, and Andrea Martinez, … Between The United States and Great Britain Relating to Boundary Waters, and Questions Arising Between the United … 3.4.2. Procedural human rights: Rights to access to information, free speech, free assembly, …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… Juan Carlos Sanchez and Joshua Roberts (Eds.) Adaptation to Climate Change Transboundary Water Governance IUCN … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 4.3.1 Access to environmental information . . . . . . . . . . . . . … matters . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 4.3.3 Access to justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… of Tenure Technical Guides are part of FAO’s initiative to help develop capacities to improve tenure governance and … poverty by promoting secure tenure rights and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests. This technical guide … societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and …
Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… Studies, Elodie Manuel, Analyst, International Justice Initiative, Washington, DC, and Andrea Martinez, … Between The United States and Great Britain Relating to Boundary Waters, and Questions Arising Between the United … 57 3.4.2. Procedural human rights: Rights to access to information, free speech, free assembly, …
Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… 39 2.3 Participation in decision making related to REDD … Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, Access and Benefit Sharing under the Convention on Biological … people most urgent.16 This is not only a consideration of justice, but also of opportunity. Forest dwellers and users …
Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application
… http://www.unesco.org/open-access/termsuse-ccbysa-en … 10 1 Introduction 12 1.1 12 1.2 14 2 Selected approaches to water and climate adaptation at the regional level 16 2.1 … Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters 6 in the 6 Including over …