Environmental Law: Foreign & Comparative

Free resource. Resource ...builds "on several years of data collection by both the Grantham Research Institute and the Sabin Center, including the collaboration of Grantham Institute with GLOBE International on a series of Climate Legislation Studies."

Climate Change Laws of the World covers national-level climate change legislation and policies globally. The database covers climate and climate-related laws, as well as laws and policies promoting low carbon transitions, which reflects the relevance of climate policy in areas including energy, transport, land use, and climate resilience.

Free resource. This is a database of positive domestic, regional and international legal decisions from around the world regarding economic, social and cultural rights. These case summaries provide greater awareness about global ESCR issues, effective litigation strategies, progressive jurisprudence, and creative implementation tactics. Our case summaries are available primarily in English and Spanish, with a growing number also in French and Arabic.
ESCR-Net Members —over 280 social movements, NGOs and advocates across 75 countries— “seek to build a global movement to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.”

FAOLEX is a comprehensive and up-to-date legislative and policy database, one of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws, regulations and policies on food, agriculture and natural resources management. Users of FAOLEX have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each text, as well as to the full text of the legislation and policies contained in the database. Topics are: Agricultural & Rural Develpment - Cultivated Plants - Livestock - Fisheries & Aquaculture - Forestry - Food & Nutrition - Wild Species & Ecosystems- Land & Soil
- Water - Sea - Environment - Mineral Resources & Energy

Official website. Works in many aspects of environmental law

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Official website. ECLAC: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Free resource. Since 1995, so for 25 years in 2020, this website provides news and background information on the European Union, the protection of the environment and sustainable development in Europe and elsewhere. The renewed website also features information about our legal advice and consultancy activities. It also features a renewed database with annotated environmental judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the International Court of Justice, WTO Panels and the Appellate Body and some national judges. Furthermore, you can find an introduction on the EU environmental law in various languages. By following us on Twitter at @EurEnvlLaw, you will get the latest news, notably on important cases and other developments.

This site has been designed by the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) with partners from the Caribbean: The Haitian Environmental Law Association (AHDEN) The Institute of Law for the Protection of the Environment (INSAPROMA) from the Dominican Republic The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET)

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