Environmental Law - International

International environmental law resource page with links to international environmental law centers, international environmental law foundations, international environmental law commissions, international environmental law resources, international environmental treaties, and much more.

see also

Sustainable development

Environmental Law - International

• Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
  "A public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 to bring the energy and experience of the U.S. public interest environmental movement to the critical task of strengthening and developing international and comparative environmental law, policy, and management around the world."
• Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
• Guide to World Environmental Law from Hieros Gamos.
• International Environmental Law (Infography)
• Narodowa Fundacja Ochrony Srodowiska
• Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library
• UN Environment Programme

Africa

• African Environmental Law from Pace Virtual Encironmental Law Library
  

America

• North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
  In English, Spanish, or French.

Australia

• Australian Centre for Environmental Law
  "ACEL - ANU was established in 1991 as a collaborative venture between the law schools of three of Australia's leading Universities (ANU, Adelaide and Sydney). Today, ACEL - ANU is widely respected as an independent, non-partisan centre of excellence in learning. Its mission is to deliver world class environmental law and policy post-graduate teaching, publish cutting-edge research, and stimulate environmental legal and policy development. These activities are designed to lead to better environmental, social and economic outcomes in Australia and internationally. When members of the legal profession, government, business, public interest organizations, and the media seek expert information, or wish to pursue qualifications in environmental law and policy, they turn to ACEL - ANU."--About ACEL - ANU page [November 30, 2001].
• Australian Legal and Policy Resources for Environmental Lawyers
• Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government
• National Environmental Defender's Offices of Australia Network (EDO)
  The EDO Network consists of nine independently constituted and managed community environmental legal centres spread across Australia. Each EDO office is dedicated to protecting the environment in the public interest. Their web site includes links to Australian environmental law and information.

Belgium

• Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development (FRDO-CFDD)
  In Dutch or French (some documents also available in English and German).

Canada

• Canadian Wildlife Service
• The Western Canada Wilderness Committee

Europe

• European Environmental Law Review In English from Kluwer Law International.
  

Israel

• Environmental Law in Israel
  In English and Hebrew.
• Tzvi Levinson
  In English and Hebrew. Environmental lawyer.

Lithuania

• Environmental Protection Ministry
  In English

New Zealand

• New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (NZCEL)
  From the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland.

Societies

• The World Conservation Union Commission on Environmental Law

South Africa

• The SuLair, Africa, South of the Sahara, Environment

Treaties

• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI)
  A database containing the complete texts of more than 169 environmental agreements.

Uganda

• National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)
  NEMA is the main agency responsible for the management of the environment. Its principal goal is to create and establish an efficient institutional mechanism for environmental management so as to promote and ensure sound environmental planning and integration of environmental concerns into the national socio-economic development planning process. It also has the mandate to enforce compliance and to seek redress for national environmental standards.

Vietnam

• Vietnam Science, Technology and Environment Page
  From the Australian National University. Including selected environmental laws in English and Vietnamese.

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