Environmental Rule of Law: Critical to Sustainable Development - Issue Brief

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationLaw Division
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-14T07:33:15Z
dc.date.available2016-11-14T07:33:15Z
dc.date.issued2015-05
dc.descriptionThis document explains environmental rule of law as the application of accountable, transparent, and rights-consistent legal frameworks to environmental governance, arguing it is essential to sustainable development. It notes mounting pressures—climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and resource conflicts—and records that a 2013 UNEP decision first established the term while warning that violations undermine agreed goals and that implementation lags across hundreds of instruments, with significant progress in only 4 of 90 objectives. It calls for stronger access to information, public participation, capacity for courts and enforcement bodies, and removal of barriers to justice.en
dc.description.urihttp://web.unep.org/environmentalgovernance/erl/
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/10664
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number2 p.
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectrule of law
dc.subjectsustainable development
dc.subjectenvironmental justice
dc.subjectenvironmental law
dc.subjectenvironmental protection
dc.titleEnvironmental Rule of Law: Critical to Sustainable Development - Issue Briefen
dc.typePolicy brief
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000041
wd.identifier.sdgiohttp://purl.unep.org/sdg/SDGIO_00000046

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