WCC adopts motion on courts and access to justice

M-165-2012-EN  (text of motion) The World Conservation Congress has approved our motion on the strengthening of the environmental judiciary worldwide.  This is a project Professor Nicholas Robinson has pursued for the past few years with other partners, including the...

Nick Robinson named IUCN Honorary Member

Nick Robinson receiving IUCN Lifetime Member certificate from His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip of Sweden. On Wednesday, Professor Nicholas Robinson received one of the IUCN’s highest honors, Honorary Lifetime Membership status.  The full Pace delegation was...

World Conservation Congress in full swing

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature is the largest conservation group in the world.  It holds a Congress of its members (governments and NGOs) every four years, and Pace Law’s Center for Environmental Legal Studies, as a voting member, sends a...

Ann Powers: Regardless —

The preliminary work of the conference came to a conclusion Tuesday and the UNCSD has begun.  The signs are obvious — traffic is even more snarled, the police presence more pronounced, red bereted soldiers with automatic weapons patrol Copacabana beach, black...