Patti Moore

Patti Moore is an environmental lawyer with more than 28 years’ international experience, working in the field of environmental law and governance across more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

She has been living and working in Asia since 1999. Much of her work has focused on building the legal basis for conserving and sustainably using biological resources. Patti was a member of the team that developed IUCN’s Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation and most recently in South East Asia, she was part of the team that has drafted a new decree on protected areas for Lao PDR. Since 2010, she has worked with ADB to carry out assessments of the legal basis for environmental and social safeguards for more than 30 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

She has been working with UNICEF, UNEP, and UN Human Rights on children’s rights to a healthy environment in the Asia Pacific region since 2018.

Papers and Publications

• Patti Moore is an environmental lawyer with more than 30 years’ international experience, working in the field of environmental law and governance across more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. She has been living and working in Asia since 1999. 
• Moore, Patricia. 2021. The right to a healthy environment in Southeast Asia: National Environmental Enforcement Authorities. Discussion Brief No. 7. Raoul Wallenberg Institute. 
• Moore, Patricia. 2020. Background Paper on: Environment and Children’s Rights in International Law and National Jurisprudence. UNICEF EAPRO. https://www.unicef.org/eap/reports/childrens-environmental-rights-national-and-international-law