Environmental Governance

'Environment Rights for Environment Wrongs: Advocating for Improved Environmental Governance in Asia Pacific': From 6-10 November 2005, FIELD participated in a three day meeting, "Environment Rights for Environment Wrongs: Advocating for Improved Environmental Governance in Asia Pacific", in Bangkok, Thailand. The objective of the meeting was to address key mechanisms and co-operative solutions for advancing much needed changes with respect to the region's environment at local, national and regional levels. The meeting was organised by the UNDP Regional Environmental Governance Programme for Asia and Pacific. Alice Palmer of FIELD worked with the participants to identify common lessons learned from case studies and pilot projects and to develop a framework for advocacy strategies.

Workshop Towards a stronger system of International Environmental Governance: On 26 May 2005, FIELD lawyers attended an international conference organised by Ecologic and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Berlin, Germany. The conference was titled "Towards a stronger System of International Environmental Governance". The objective of the conference was to discuss and explore the potential benefits of a United Nations Environment Organisation (UNEO).

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