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...
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.
Ley de Cambio Climático (Decreto 297-2013)
10/11/2014 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Climate Change Environmental education HondurasLa ley establece los principios y regulaciones necesarios para planificar, prevenir y responder de manera adecuada, coordinada y sostenida a los impactos que genera el cambio climático en Honduras.
Ley Marco de Cambio Climático (Decreto 7-2013)
04/10/2013 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Climate Change Environmental education GuatemalaLa ley tiene por objeto establecer las regulaciones necesarias para prevenir, planificar y responder de manera urgente, adecuada, coordinada y sostenida a los impactos del cambio climático en Guatemala.
Ley General de Cambio Climático
06/06/2012 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Climate Change Environmental education Environmental assessment MexicoLa ley establece disposiciones para enfrentar los efectos adversos del cambio climático y regular las acciones para la mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático en México.
Ley para la Gestión Integral de Residuos (Ley No. 8839)
24/06/2010 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Climate Change Environmental education Environmental assessment Costa Rica Esta Ley tiene por objeto regular la gestión integral de residuos y el uso eficiente de los recursos, mediante la planificación y ejecución de acciones regulatorias, operativas, financieras, administrativas, educativas, ambientales y saludables de monitoreo y evaluación.
Ley de Gestión Integral de Riesgos Socionaturales y Tecnológicos
09/01/2009 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Environmental education Venezuela Esta ley tiene por objeto conformar y regular la gestión integral de riesgos socionaturales y tecnológicos, estableciendo los principios rectores y lineamientos que orientan la política nacional hacia la armónica ejecución de las competencias concurrentes del Poder Público Nacional, Estadal y Munici
Emergency Management Act (No. 20 of 2006)
01/04/2007 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Environmental education BarbadosThis Act provides for the effective organization and management of disasters and other emergencies in Barbados. It ensures the public is informed in cases of hazard, disaster or emergency and establishes public participation provisions on policies and programmes, among others.
National Environmental Policy (2006)
07/04/2006 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Environmental education Trinidad and TobagoThe National Environmental Policy is prepared pursuant to Section 18(1) of the Environmental Management Act and includes provisions which seek to encourage the establishment of institutional linkages locally, regionally and internationally to further the objects of the said Act, an analysis of...