Resources
New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism
The book examines new frontiers in the implementation of constitutional, international, and regional rights-based approaches to promote environmental protection.
Companion to Global Judicial Handbook on Environmental Constitutionalism: Selected Cases and Materials
This handbook on environmental constitutionalism contains selected case summaries, judicial opinions, reports, maps and constitional samples from Asia Pacific, Americas and the Caribbean, Africa and Europe.
Guidelines for Framework Legislation for Integrated Waste Management
The purpose of these Guidelines is to support countries with clear advice for their efforts to introduce or enhance their waste management legislation. The principles these the Guidelines are based on consider ways that waste can be diverted from release into the environment while providing for economic development that enhances social development to reinforce good environmental management within a supportive governance framework.
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. It finds that a rapid increase in climate litigation has occurred around the world. In 2017 there were 884 cases brought in 24 countries. As of 1 July 2020, the number of cases has nearly doubled with at least 1,550 climate change cases filed in 38 countries. This growing tidal wave of climate cases is driving much-needed change.
Gender and Environment Statistics: Unlocking information for action and measuring SDGs
This report first considers the current landscape of data at the gender-environment nexus. This report then outlines the key issues and associated indicators used for tracking and analysing those issues, organized around four priority areas.
Environmental Rule of Law: First Global Report
The report individuates the governance system of various countries and simultaneously presses upon the conditional differences in various aspects of Environmental Management.
UNEP Judicial Handbook Environmenal Law 2005
This handbook is intended to enable national judges in all types of tribunals in both civil law and common law jurisdictions to identify environmental issues coming before them and to be aware of the range of options available to them in interpreting and applying the law. It seeks to provide judges with a practical guide to basic environmental issues that are likely to arise in litigation. It includes information on international and comparative environmental law and references to relevant cases.
UNEP Judicial Handbook on Environmental Law
This handbook is intended to enable national judges in all types of tribunals in both civil law and common law jurisdictions to identify environmental issues coming before them and to be aware of the range of options available to them in interpreting and applying the law. It seeks to provide judges with a practical guide to basic environmental issues that are likely to arise in litigation. It includes information on international and comparative environmental law and references to relevant cases.
Asia Waste Management Outlook
This publication provides an overview of the current status, the current thinking on “state of the art” topics, and the future of solid waste management in Asia over the medium term.
Judges & Environmental Law: A Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
This publication brings together a collection of essays on different aspects and perspectives of the environment and the law. It seeks to complement the knowledge of judges in the enforcement of Sri Lanka’s environmental laws and recognises them as vital in the effectual implementation of environmental legislation and its policies. Despite considerable progress in recent years, much remains to be done to restore and preserve Sri Lanka’s natural resources and its rich biodiversity.