🎉 Great #EnvironmentalDemocracy news: Last week @coe.int's States made clear that social justice and environmental protection must go hand in hand:
👉 France extended the European Social Charter to its overseas territories
👉 Momentum on the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll

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The decisions taken in Geneva by European governments will signal whether States intend to strengthen or undermine one of the world’s most important legal frameworks for #EnvironmentalDemocracy & defenders.
👀 CIEL’s experts will be closely watching the negotiations this week, and you should too 👀

The EU and the Aarhus Convention – taking stock of the Union’s progress towards Environmental Democracy The Aarhus Convention continues to be widely celebrated as a beacon of environmental democracy and has played a considerable role in advancing the notion of procedural environmental rights in the…

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The EU & the Aarhus Convention: Taking Stock of Progress Towards Environmental Democracy

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#AarhusConvention #EU #AccessToJustice #EnvironmentalDemocracy

WFD launches Environmental Democracy project in Morocco

🌍 Democracy addresses global challenges like climate change.

WFD and Morocco's House of Representatives recently launched an Environmental Democracy programme to enhance parliamentary engagement in climate action.

Read on: www.wfd.org/news/wfd-lau...

#DemocracyCan #EnvironmentalDemocracy