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971.Education (2015-05-14)
... The objectives of the educational activities of our organization a to increase the level of environmental and legal culture and education of the citizens of Ukraine, to raise the level of environmental law consciousness and skills of lawyers, representatives of the public organizations, officials of the governmental authorities; to raise a new generation of environmental... ...
972.Best view yet of Ceres’ spots (2015-05-12)
... The fascinating bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres have come into sharper view. What were initially thought to be just a couple of brilliant, closely spaced features at one location now turn out to be a clutch of many smaller dots. The latest pictures were acquired by the US space agency’s... ...
973.Shell gets ‘conditional’ US Arctic drilling approval (2015-05-12)
... Oil firm Royal Dutch Shell has won approval from the US Department of Interior to explore for oil in the Arctic. The approval depends on Shell getting a nod from other US regulators, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said. Shell stopped Arctic exploration more than two years ago after problems including an oil rig... ...
974.Sri Lanka first nation to protect all mangrove forests (2015-05-12)
... Sri Lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests. A scheme backed by the government will include alternative job training, replanting projects and microloans. Mangroves are considered to be one of the world’s most at-risk habitats, with more than half being lost or destroyed in the... ...
975.EPL’s communication to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee with regard to product sharing agreements was found admissible (2015-05-09)
... In late March, we reported that at its forty-eighth meeting (Geneva, 24-27 March 2015), the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee considered the preliminary admissibility of communication PRE/ACCC/C/2014/118 concerning Ukraine submitted by NGO “Environment-People-Law” on 18 November 2014. The communication alleges that in 2013 during preparation and conclusion of the product sharing agreements regarding Yuzivska and Oleska... ...
976.The Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention: how Maydan saved Ukraine and about the draft law on environmental impact assessment (2015-05-09)
... The 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention) is held in Maastricht (Netherlands) from 30 June till 2 July 2014. In the meeting hall there are over 450 official delegates and representatives of the public from... ...
977.Сompliance of Ukraine with its international obligations under the Aarhus Convention (updated on March 2010) (2015-05-09)
... Updated on March 2010 Prepared by: Yelyzaveta Aleksyeyeva, Senior Lawyer, EPL EPL as the organization which constantly follows on the process on transposing the provisions of the Aarhus Convention into the domestic legislation, actively uses the rights enshrined in the Convention, as the organization which in 2004 initiated a case in Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee... ...
978.REPORT ON PROGRESS made by Ukraine in implementation of MOP decisions regarding its compliance and of the Action Plan adopted by Ukraine (2015-05-09)
... November, 2010Prepared by Yelyzaveta Aleksyeyeva, EPL’s senior lawyer Having in mind that on its 30th meeting the Compliance Committee will review the progress of the Government of Ukraine in implementing MOP decision III/6f, EPL submits this assessment to update the Committee on how the situation has changed since EPL presented its view on the state... ...
979.ASSESSMENT OF THE NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION REPORTS – 2010/2011 (2015-05-09)
... UkraineEnvironment-People-Law, an NGO from UkraineQuestions to the NGOsI. Your comments on the national reporting process under the Aarhus Convention:a. Was the process of the National Implementation Report (NIR) development in your country participatory in general (was it more participatory than the process of the previous NIR development in 2007-2008)? No, the process of NIR 2010/11... ...
980.Statement by Environment-People-Law for the 40th meeting of the АССС (2015-05-09)
... Statement by Environment-People-Law for the 40th meeting of the АССС ...
