New judicial training: Environmental justice in the Asia Pacific region

We have draw on our research to support a new, free online curriculum for judges – developed by UNEP, IUCN’s World Commission on Environmental Law, Conservation-Litigation.org and legal experts from across Asia-Pacific – focused on environmental justice in the Asia Pacific region. It draws on our legal analyses and case studies from countries across the region region to further promote the protection of the environment and natural resources through improved implementation, adjudication and enforcement of environmental law.

As legal actions to protect and remedy biodiversity become increasingly important to secure justice for nature – including through lawsuits by plaintiffs supported by Conservation-Litigation-org – judges and practitioners globally are faced with new types of cases, concepts and science that they are unlikely to have seen before.

This is an important and exciting opportunity to inform legal responses to environmental harm. The training helps judges, public prosecutors and other legal practitioners engage the breadth of legal tools available to them, and to understand the legal and scientific concepts that underpin environmental cases – especially cases focused on securing remedies. new “Intermediate Course on Environmental Adjudication: Upholding Environmental Justice in Asia Pacific” aims to respond to the needs of legal professionals, particularly judges, from Asia and the Pacific to promote the protection of the environment and natural resources in the region through improved implementation, adjudication and enforcement of environmental law.