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T1 Environmental Rule of Law: Critical to Sustainable Development - Issue Brief
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 rule of law
K1 sustainable development
K1 environmental justice
K1 environmental law
K1 environmental protection
YR 2015
FD 2015-05
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/10664
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/10664
NO This 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.
NO http://web.unep.org/environmentalgovernance/erl/
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 16, 2026