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Ley que reorganiza el Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil (Ley No. 7)

11/02/2005 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Environmental education Panama
Esta ley crea el Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil (SINAPROC) como un organismo humanitario, encargada de ejecutar medidas, disposiciones y órdenes tendientes a evitar, anular o disminuir los efectos que la acción de la naturaleza o la antropogénica pueda provocar sobre la vida y bienes del congl

Fishermen and Friends of The Sea v. The Environmental Management Authority Respondent Et Al

22/10/2004 Rights: Participation Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Trinidad and Tobago

On 6 June 2003, the Environmental Management Authority issued a Certificate of Environmental clearance relative to the establishment of an expansion of liquefied gas producing and operation facilities at Point Fortin.

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

29/06/2004 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Biodiversity Indigenous peoples

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources was adopted in 2001 during the Thirty-first Session of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

16/05/2004 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Environmental education Gender Pollutant Release Register

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants came into force in 2004. It aims to protect human health and the environment from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

Decreto que promulga el Convenio 169 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo sobre Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales en Países Independientes (Decreto No. 5051 de 2004)

19/04/2004 Rights: Participation Justice Topics: Mining Indigenous peoples Brazil

Este decreto promulga el Convenio 169 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo sobre Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales en Países Independientes.

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity

11/09/2003 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Biodiversity Environmental education

The Cartagena Protocol, in force since September 2003, was adopted as a complementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Physical Planning and Development Act (No. 29 of 2001)

01/07/2003 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Saint Lucia

The Act makes provisions for the development of land, the assessment of the environmental impacts of development, the grant of permission to develop land and for other powers to regulate the use of land, and for related matters in Saint Lucia.

Ley de la Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas

21/05/2003 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Mining Indigenous peoples Mexico

La ley establece la Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas en México que tiene como objeto orientar, coordinar, promover, apoyar, fomentar, dar seguimiento y evaluar los programas, proyectos, estrategias y acciones públicas para el desarrollo integral y sustentable de los...

Physical Planning Act (No. 6 of 2003)

24/03/2003 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Cities Environmental assessment Antigua and Barbuda

This act regulates the development  of land for planning and connected purposes and  the construction of buildings in Antigua and Barbuda.  It incorporates information and public participation provisions.

R. Et Al v. Ex Parte Belize Alliance of Conservation Non Governmental Organizations (BACONGO)

19/12/2002 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Energy Environmental assessment Belize

An alliance of nine environmental organizations opposed the building of dam and associated works in Chalillo along the Macal River sought relief to quash the decision of the National Environmental Appraisal Committee  (NEAC) recommending conditional environmental clearance to the hydroelectric...