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19 November 2018
GGKP Side Event

Law for Environmental Sustainability

On 19 November 2018, the UN Environment Management Group is hosting Law for Environmental Sustainability.
Online

Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Environmental law may be the one institution standing between us and planetary exhaustion. It is also an institution that needs to be reconciled with human liberty and economic aspirations.

January 2019

Environmental Rule of Law: First Global Report

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
As the first assessment of the global environmental rule of law, this Report draws on experiences, challenges, viewpoints, and successes of diverse countries around the world, highlighting global trends as well as opportunities for countries and partners to strengthen the environmental rule of law.
January 2019

Environmental Rule of Law: First Global Report

This report discusses the range of measure that countries are adopting to address the implementation gap when it comes to environmental regulations and to ensure that rule of law is effective in the environmental sphere.
5 December 2014
Research

Why trade law may interfere with environmental progress

Steve Charnovitz, Lisa Lindhorst

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has espoused a commitment to sustainable development, yet current WTO rules are in tension with global environmental protection efforts.

January 2019

Environmental Rule of Law: An analysis of data availability

Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)
Laws, alongside the institutions and legal systems that ensure their implementation and enforcement, are an essential component of an enabling environment for green growth. Environmental Rule of Law: An analysis of data availability aims to provide a comprehensive review of currently available datasets allowing for the measurement of environmental rule of law, using the OECD Pressure-State-Response model to determine suitable enforcement and compliance indicators.
13 March 2017 to 3 April 2017
Online

International Environmental Governance

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)

Multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) are the predominant legal method for addressing transboundary environmental problems.

6 March 2019
Knowledge news

GGKP Working Group Finds Major Data Gaps In Environmental Rule of Law

A new working paper from the GGKP Expert Working Group on Green Growth and the Law finds major data shortages in environmental rule of law, and that existing datasets are limited in scope and non-comparable.

China Circular Economy Promotion Law

Country: 
China
Formulated to facilitate circular economy, resource efficiency and environmental protection China's Circular Economy Promotion Law came into force in January 2009. The Law aims to achieve sustainable development by raising resources utilization rate and increasing resource recovery in production, circulation, and consumption.

China Energy Conservation Law

Country: 
China
The Energy Conservation Law of the People's Republic of China is formulated for the purpose of promoting energy conservation in the whole society, improving energy utilization efficiency, protecting and ameliorating the environment, and striving for all round, balanced and sustainable development of the economy and the society.

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