Resources
Climate Change and Biodiversity Legal and Policy Frameworks in Asia-Pacific Developing Countries
This resource provides a tabular analysis of legal and policy frameworks addressing the nexus between climate change and biodiversity among developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.
The Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI): A Global Partnership to Improve the Legal Protection of Native Forests
The MoFAI is a groundbreaking initiative to provide a comprehensive and innovative legal blueprint for legislators, policymakers, and other stakeholders in designing a modern legal framework for the protection, conservation, restoration, and ecologically sustainable management and use of forests.
Regional Symposium on Forest and Protected Areas Legislation and Jurisprudence: Bridging Law and Science Post-Symposium Booklet
This Post-Symposium Booklet is based on the proceedings of the Regional Symposium on Forest and Protected Areas Legislation and Jurisprudence: Bridging Law and Science, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 27–29 April 2023.
“Have a Digital Highway but also Have Speed limits”: Exploring Public Resistance to Cell Tower Radiation in India
Public resistance to environmental and health safety risks from radiations emanating from cellphone towers has been sporadic but spatially and temporally widespread in India. Civic actions have been led by civic activists, resident welfare associations, gram panchayats, lawyers, scientists and even an actor from the Bombay film industry. Large scale technical systems like cell towers are remarkably resilient to public criticism. Industry response to such resistance is usually in the form of aesthetic tinkering to hide structures from public gaze, incremental regulation and science communication to assuage public doubt. The legislature, rather than Courts, has been more responsive to such civic actions.
Post-Symposium Booklet: Symposium on Judges and the Environment | The Impact of the Stockholm Declaration in Shaping Global Environmental Law and Jurisprudence
SYMPOSIUM ON JUDGES AND THE ENVIRONMENT: The Impact of the Stockholm Declaration in Shaping Global Environmental Law and Jurisprudence An Associated Event of the UN Stockholm+50 Conference last 31 May–1 June 2022
Ecocide as a New International Crime
Commissioned by the Stop Ecocide Foundation, an expert drafting panel of 12 highly renowned international criminal and environmental lawyers from around the world has just concluded six months of deliberations. The result: a legal definition of “ecocide” as a potential fifth international crime, to sit alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
Case Study on Waste Crime - Prosecuting the Export of UK Solid Waste to Other Countries
Howard McCann, the barrister who handled the Biffa Waste Services case, discusses its successful prosecution and the international cooperation that made it possible.
Environmental Crime - An Overview
Experts provide an overview of environmental crime issues and the challenges of dealing with and prosecuting transnational environmental crime.
Asian Development Bank Sustainability Report 2020
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Sustainability Report 2020 provides detailed information on the economic, social, and environmental impacts of ADB’s operations, activities, and institutional practices for 2018 and 2019.
Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review
The UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review provides an overview of the current state of climate change litigation globally, as well as an assessment of global climate change litigation trends.