Greetings from the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) National University of Singapore!

APCEL would like to interested parties and experts on each jurisdiction, to the ECT Regional Webinar to confirm our gathered data, harness inputs and comments about ECT/s in your jurisdiction. Your answers will inform the UNEP 2021 ECTs Guideline for Policymakers.

The webinars will be held on the following dates:

CENTRAL ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST : 4 MAY 2021
06.00-08.00 AM UTC or 02.00-04.00 PM Singapore Time
https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vgm–rNoStu9_sNmvxKWdA

EAST ASIA, ASEAN and OCEANIA : 6 MAY 2021
02.00-04.00 AM UTC or 10.00AM-12.00PM Singapore Time
https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L9OzDcWAT8iYRht68M35ag

AMERICAS and the CARRIBEAN: 7 MAY 2021
01.00-03.00PM UTC or 09.00-11.00PM Singapore Time
https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_971h6GKnS7i1qkYG97PQEg

In addition, we encourage and invite experts in environmental law and courts and tribunals from the 3 regions listed above (covered by the APCEL-UNEP study) to fill out our online ECT questionnaire, ideally before each of the regional webinars, or by no later than 10th May.  Please follow the following link to the questionnaire and attached are instructions for filling out the survey here

ABOUT THE PROJECT

This project aims to provide a comprehensive update of the 2016 The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) publication, “Environmental Courts and Tribunals: A Guide for Policy Makers”.

APCEL is the lead co-ordinator for the project and will focus our work on Asia, Australia-NZ and Oceania, North and South America, the Middle East, and the Pacific.  The University of Ghent in Rotterdam will assist in the study in Europe and Africa.

The Environmental Courts & Tribunals:  A Guide for Policy Makers 2016 can be found here.