Story | 14 May, 2024
Responding to the calls of multiple States, the IUCN WCEL has proposed that the crime of environmental destruction, when perpetrated as a means to damage, destroy, or injure any civilian population, be included in an eventual Convention on Crimes Against Humanity.
Story | 14 May, 2024
The event was organized by the School of Sustainability and Law, National Law University, Meghalaya in Shillong, in association with IUCN WCEL Task Force on Rights of Nature.
Blog | 13 May, 2024
The global community recently gathered in Canada, where concerns over the triple planetary crisis and problematic plastics converged to advance science and policy for a future Plastics Treaty that should address the full life cycle of plastics.
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Fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution (INC-4)
The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), is scheduled to take place from 23 to 29 April 2024 at the Shaw Center in Ottawa, Canada. The session will…
Story | 27 Mar, 2024
A future plastics treaty needs a specific article on biodiversity: IUCN’s proposal
IUCN and the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) presented at a webinar on 26 March 2024 at the Geneva Environment Network a proposal for a specific article on “Biodiversity Aspects” in the future Plastics Treaty, putting forward IUCN’s key expertise within a new global…
Story | 22 Mar, 2024
IUCN participates in historic climate change proceedings before World Court
"Watershed moment" is a term often used too loosely, but not this time. It is not every day that the International Court of Justice – the highest judicial body of the United Nations, also known as the World Court – deals with climate change. In fact, this is the first time!
Blog | 09 Mar, 2024
Key messages from the webinar on science-policy interfaces & environmental rule of law
The IUCN WCEL Early Career Specialist Group hosted a webinar discussing challenges relating to science-policy interfaces and the environmental rule of law, with a focus on ocean governance.
Story | 23 Feb, 2024
WCEL members and other leading international environmental law experts have called for the urgent prioritisation of environmental law education in order to accelerate global achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Story | 08 Jan, 2024
IUCN WCEL contributes to publication on the 50 years of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
The contribution, authored by Grethel Aguilar Rojas and Nicholas A. Robinson, was published in the Policy Forum of Science Magazine (December issue).
Story | 29 Nov, 2023
The conference took place between 22 and 23 November 2023 in Monaco and highlighted the important role of robust, transparent, and inclusive forest governance.