Pace Environmental Law Review

At 2:30 am on Tuesday morning, the Brazilian delegation announced that the text had been finalized and would be presented in the coming hours. At midday, the plenary agreed on the text ad ref and we have now passed it on to our leaders for the forthcoming UNCSD. While...

Professor Ann Powers reports: The final "Brazilian" draft will serve as a basis for negotiations when the formal UN Conference on Sustainable Development begins tomorrow.  Reactions from the stakeholders groups remain diverse. Pleas see the draft located below: The...

Stanley Johnson of the Guardian quoted Professor Robinson at the World Congress on Justice, Law, and Environmental Sustainability in his recent blog entry: "Prof[essor] Nicholas Robinson, a former chairman of IUCN's Commission on Environmental Law, said: 'It is...

Patrick Brosnan is a Pace Law 3L who took the UN Diplomacy Practicum course this spring and was asked by the UN Mission to Grenada to represent their views at Rio+20.  His brief note: Made it safe and sound and jumped right into the action. On the bus ride here, I was...

Professor Robinson is currently involved in the UNEP World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustaiability. The meeting schedule and photos of the event by IISD are available at www.iisd.ca/uncsd/rio20/unepwc/  His report on yesterday's...

Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, opened the World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Sustainable Development, at the Tribunal de Justica (the Supreme Court) of the State of Rio de Janeiro. He noted that the 5th Global Environment Report of UNEP showed...

The negotiating text released June 16th by the Brazilian chair of the CSD has 287 paragraphs. It consists of agreements in the prior negotiations (agreed ad ref) and many efforts to restate acceptable past agreements. This text goes beyond agreeing to reaffirm the...

It’s hard to know what to say about the first week of Rio+20.  The PrepCom ended as it had begun, with a bloated document running over two-hundred pages, and hundreds of  brackets reflecting areas of disagreement. This came after weeks of “informal-informal”...

Professor Nicholas Robinson reports that his lectures Thursday at the Jurists conference (at the Botanical Garden) and Friday at the Planeta Verde/Judicial conference (at the Rio Supreme Court) went well. He acknowledged Pace alum Prof. Romulo Sampaio  and 4 of our...