In January 2013, international public interest environmental law organization Environment-People-Law became a member of the Academy of Environmental Law of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The organization is IUCN member and in 2003 it was recognized the IUCN legal excellency center. Members of the Academy are leading universities and research law institutions worldwide. The Academy is governed by the Board consisting of ten members representing ten major regions of the world. The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (http://www.iucnael.org/) is positioned in building environmental law education capacity and promoting conceptual development of environmental law and its implementation, particularly in developing countries. As its aims the Academy sees building individual talents and institutional capacity in environmental law and policy, developing new legal strategies and mechanisms of solving urgent environmental problems.
The Academy realizes international projects of developing and implementing new environmental law curricula, exchanging experience among environmental law teachers and doing joint research and producing publications. The Academy members meet in person at annual colloquiums as well as at working seminars held before and after the colloquiums.
For further information contact:
Hanna Khomechko, EPL development director
еmail: h.khomechko@epl.org.ua
tel.: (032) 225 – 76 – 82
Olena Kravchenko,
EPL executive director
email: okravchenko@epl.org.ua
tel.: (032) 225 – 76 – 82
