Adopted at Escazú, Costa Rica, on 4 March 2018, the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean has as its objective to guarantee the full and effective implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean...
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Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean
22/04/2021 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Climate Change Certification Cities Environmental education Energy Environmental assessment GenderEnvironmental Framework Act (No. 97 of 2020)
07/05/2020 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Indigenous peoples Suriname The Environmental Framework Act contains rules for sustainable environmental management in Suriname. It aims to develop a national environmental strategy and planning for sustainable development under a coordinated approach.
Minamata Convention on Mercury
16/08/2017 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Environmental education Environmental assessment Mining Pollutant Release RegisterThe Minamata Convention, in force since August 2017, was adopted at the 2013 Plenipotentiary Conference in Kumamoto, Japan. The aim of this global treaty is to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic and other releases of mercury and mercury compounds.
Política Nacional de Educación Ambiental de Guatemala (Acuerdo Gubernativo No 189-2017)
01/08/2017 Rights: Information Participation Topics: Climate Change Environmental education Environmental assessment Gender Indigenous peoples GuatemalaLa Política busca implementar programas y procesos de educación ambiental formal, no formal e informal con enfoque multicultural y de equidad, que permita la sensibilización de la sociedad para la adopción de actitudes responsables en la conservación de los bienes y servicios ambientales.
Director of Physical Planning v Anne Hendricks Bass
15/06/2017 Rights: Information Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Saint Kitts & NevisIn an appeal against the judgement of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, High Court of Justice (Civil), Anne Hendricks Bass v.
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 del Consejo de Estado de Colombia (Radicación No. 11001- 03- 15 – 000 – 2016 -01943-01(AC))
20/02/2017 Rights: Information Justice Topics: Environmental assessment ColombiaEn noviembre del año 2015 una persona natural solicitó a la Corporación Autónoma Regional de las cuencas de los ríos Negro y Nare (Cornare), copia del expediente correspondiente al trámite de la licencia ambiental de una empresa privada.
Anne Hendricks Bass v. Director of Physical Planning
25/01/2017 Rights: Information Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Saint Kitts & NevisIn January and February of 2016 the claimant attempted to gain access to information relating to a resort development on Nevis including the copies of a site plan, a drainage plan and an Environmental Impact Assessment.
Sentencia de la Corte Constitucional de Colombia (T-800 de 2014)
31/10/2014 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Indigenous peoples ColombiaUn miembro de la comunidad raizal solicita la protección del derecho fundamental a la consulta previa y la integridad cultural de los integrantes de su comunidad que habitan en la isla de Providencia alegando la falta de participación en el desarrollo de un proyecto turístico en la isla, a...
Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management et al v. Attorney General et al
03/04/2014 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Environmental assessment BelizeA multinational company applied for permission to engage in exploratory oil drilling in the Sarstoon Temash National Park. The Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed project was subject to a public consultation, held by the Department of Environment on 25 October 2012.