Published: 2012
In an effort to ensure that the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20) generates meaningful outcomes, governments and other stakeholders increasingly support using the Conference to announce specific and time-bound commitments, and to agree on a “framework” to hold each other accountable for results.
Published: 2011
The book outlines key developments in the mining sector with particular focus on transparency and accountability in revenue management, mining taxation, mining contract negotiation, state and community participation in mining, the Kimberley Process and Marange diamonds, corporate social responsibility and generally the environmental, economic, social and cultural rights of communities living near mining areas. The book also contains information on two case study communities affected by mining operations in Zimbabwe namely; Marange and Mutoko where diamond mining and black granite mining is taking place respectively.
Published: 2011
TAI and ARTICLE 19 joint position paper leading up to Rio+20.
Published: 2011
TAI and ARTICLE 19 joint position paper leading up to Rio+20.
Published: 2011
TAI and ARTICLE 19 joint position paper leading up to Rio+20. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
As the international community gathers for the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development, we have a chance to renew our commitment to Environmental Democracy. Can national governments deliver?
Published: 2011
This report summarizes the current state of readiness and transparency in Bolivia in climate change adaptation policy.
The report summarizes findings from national-level policy and special efforts made in food security.
The report finds that many of the official government decisions have only covered the range of possibilities in a partial way. Public participation and transparency have been applied in a very limited way (by invitation only) and the legal framework in Bolivia allows very little enforcement or public oversight of climate-relevant decisions.
Co-authoring organizations include Reacción Climática and Fundación Ecosofía.
Published: 2011
Twelve Responding Governments
Attached you will find a full write-up of the responses from the responding governments.
Governments who responded:
Governments contacted, no response:
Published: 2011
The inclusion of procedural rights of access to information, public participationand access to justice in environmental decision-making are recognized in international treaties and soft law agreements as central to the sustainable development agenda. Since the 1990s, a number of Caribbean countries have enacted environmental legislation requiring the preparation of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) prior to permitting significant developments . The extent to which procedural rights have been included within EIA provisions however is varied. There has been little analysis of the impact of the use by citizens of procedural rights in these EIA processes.
This paper examines the legislative framework for EIAs and citizen enforcement of procedural rights in the decision-making process for proposed developments in Jamaica and Belize. The legislative frameworks adopted by Belize and Jamaica are significantly different; with the former enacting comparatively comprehensive regulations to guide the EIA process and the latter dependent on internal guidelines. In both countries there has been documented failure in law and practice to deliver effective procedural rights. A review of recent court decisions in Belize and Jamaica illustrates the value of citizen enforcement as a means of safeguarding procedural rights in the conduct and review of EIAs as well as demonstrating the failure in compliance.
Published: 2008
El objetivo de este folleto es facilitar la comprension del documento “Manual de acceso a la información y a la participación ambiental en Colombia”, destacando sus datos clave y proponiendo la realización de actividades que permitan la reflexión sobre los diferentes temas y aplicación práctica de la teoría. El manual pretende dar al lector un instrumento para el acceso a la información y participacón en asustos relacionados con el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales, los derechos y deberes relacionados con el tema y brindar y visión jurídica y social de lo relativo en materia ambientala nivel nacional e intenacional.