Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "ACCESS TO INFORMATION"
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Access to information: Lessons from Fukushima Nuclear Accident
(2016-10)Access to information: Lessons from Fukushima Nuclear Accident -
An Assessment of Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Decision-making in Asia-Pacific - Technical Briefing Paper prepared for Expert Meeting on Human Rights and the Environment
(2021)The objective of this assessment is to provide an overview of good practices that have emerged in relation to the implementation, protection and promotion of procedural access rights to enable the right to a safe, clean ... -
Conclusions and Recommendations of the Intersessional Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean
(2019-11)https://www.unenvironment.org/events/un-environment-event/intersessional-meeting-forum-ministers-environment-latin-america-and -
Constitutional Environmental Law : Giving Force to Fundamental Principles in Africa - 2nd Edition
(2007)This publication explores how constitutional provisions of African states can be used to create real, enforceable environmental rights. Afri-can states have varying legal traditions; namely, common law, civil law, and ... -
Digital Library Services - United Nations Environment Programme
(2022-07)The Library was created in 1972 as a physical library to serve the information and knowledge needs of the UNEP personnel in support of UNEP’s work. In 2013, the transition of the UNEP Library to a digital library is a ... -
Fourth Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law: Note by the Executive Director
(2008)The annex to the present note contains the draft fourth Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law (Montevideo Programme IV) as contained in the annex to the report of the meeting of senior ... -
Handbook for Stakeholder Engagement at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
(2020)This Handbook aims to inform and guide Major Groups and Stakeholders by presenting in detail the currently applied rules, mechanisms and practices for Major Groups and Stakeholders engagement in UNEP’s work. It is based ... -
Human Rights and Hazardous Substances: Key Messages
(2021)Given the impact of hazardous substances on human rights including the rights to health and life, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNEP have issued the following Key Messages ... -
Human Rights and the Environmental Rule of Law - Issue Brief SDG 16
(2021)This Summary Brief deals with Sustainable Development Goal 16, the environmental rule of law and the link between human rights and a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Access rights concerning environmental ... -
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Integrated Toolkit to Improve the Transmission of Information under articles 7 and 15 of the Stockholm Convention [Santa Lucia]
(2023-03)This report presents the findings of an assessment that was conducted on the existing data management systems and procedures applied for compiling national data and information for Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). The ... -
Interim Report on Rio Principle 10 Project Implementation in West Asia
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015-03)The Regional Workshop on the Implementation of Rio Principle 10 Regional Workshop on the Implementation of Rio Principle 10 and the Guidelines for the Development of National Legislation on Access to Information, Public ... -
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) – Strengthening Scientific Competence in Developing Countries through Access to Environmental Research
(2020)Set up by the United Nations Environment Programme in 2006 together with Yale University and major scientific publishers, the OARE programme enables academic, research and government institutions in developing countries ... -
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) – Strengthening Scientific Competence in Lower Income Countries through Access to Environmental Research - Three-day Capacity-building Concept Note
(2023-03)This note presents an overview of a three-day training (multiple sessions) on the access and use of electronic scientific information resources available through the Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) ... -
Policy on Stakeholder Engagement: Report of the Executive Director
(2016-03)The present report presents the outcome of the informal open-ended consultations held by the President of the United Nations Environment Assembly with Member States. The aim of the consultations was to formulate new proposals ... -
Preliminary Report: Regional Workshop on the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration and the application of the Bali Guidelines for thedevelopment of national legislation on access to information, public participation, and access to justice in environmental matters in Latin America
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2013-10)The workshop was an opportunity for government representatives (executive and legislative branches), and Latin America and the Caribbean civil society organizations to know the Bali Guidelines and its recommendations for ... -
Principles and Policy Guidance on Children’s Rights to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment in the ASEAN Region
(2021)The global environmental crisis undermines the fundamental rights of every child in countless ways through the climate emergency, air pollution, lack of access to safe and sufficient water and the rapid decline of biodiversity. ... -
Proceedings of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum at its Eleventh Special Session
(2010-03)The eleventh special session of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum was held at the Bali International Convention Centre in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, from ...
