This act seeks to ensure that decisions pertaining to the environment are made in an integrated manner, in collaboration with appropriate authorities, non-governmental organizations and other persons, provides for preventive and remedial measures for the control and mitigation of all forms of...
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Environmental Protection and Management Act (No. 10 of 2019)
06/06/2019 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Environmental education Gender Indigenous peoples Pollutant Release Register Antigua and BarbudaGreen State Development Strategy: Vision 2040
01/05/2019 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Climate Change Certification Environmental education Energy Gender Mining Indigenous peoples GuyanaThe Green State Development Strategy: Vision 2040 is Guyana’s twenty-year, national development policy that reflects the guiding vision and principles of the ‘green agenda’: “An inclusive and prosperous Guyana that provides a good quality of life for all its citizens based on sound education and...
Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
05/03/2018 Rights: Justice Topics: Biodiversity Indigenous peoplesThe Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was adopted in Nagoya, Japan, in October 2010.
Código Orgánico del Ambiente
12/04/2017 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Climate Change Environmental education Environmental assessment Indigenous peoples EcuadorEl presente Código tiene por objeto garantizar el derecho de las personas a vivir en un ambiente sano y ecológicamente equilibrado, así como proteger los derechos de la naturaleza.
Sentencia de la Corte Constitucional de Colombia (T-622 de 2016)
10/11/2016 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Climate Change Environmental education Mining Indigenous peoples ColombiaUn centro de estudios interpone Acción de tutela en representación de comunidades étnicas que habitan la cuenca del río Atrato en contra de la Presidencia de la República y otros.
Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity
12/10/2014 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Environmental education Indigenous peoplesThe Nagoya Protocol, in force since October 2014, is a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Its objective is to achieve fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources.
Amerindian Act (No. 6 of 2006)
14/03/2006 Rights: Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Mining Indigenous peoples GuyanaThe Act provides for the recognition and protection of collective rights of Amerindian Villages and Communities in Guyana and the promotion of good governance.
Ley General de Ambiente (Ley No. 28.611)
15/10/2005 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Certification Cities Environmental education Environmental assessment Mining Indigenous peoples PeruEsta ley es la norma ordenadora del marco normativo legal para la gestión ambiental en el Perú.
Ley General del Ambiente (Ley No. 41)
01/07/1998 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Environmental assessment Climate Change Environmental education Indigenous peoples PanamaLa ley establece los principios y normas básicas para la protección, (conservación y recuperación del ambiente, promoviendo el uso sostenible de los recursos naturales.
Ley General del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales (Ley No. 217)
27/03/1996 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Environmental assessment Climate Change Environmental education Indigenous peoples NicaraguaLa ley establece las normas para la conservación, protección, mejoramiento y restauración del medio ambiente y los recursos naturales que lo integran, asegurando su uso racional y sostenible, de acuerdo a lo señalado en la Constitución Política.