UNEP Portal developed in partnership with LRI launched this month

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the Law and Environmental Ontology Portal (LEO) at the 6th Multilateral Environment Agreement Information and Knowledge Management (MEA IKM) Initiative Steering Committee Meeting, held from 15-17 September 2015, in Montreux, Switzerland. The LRI was one of the partner organisations involved in developing …

Ahead of next negotiation session, LRI facilitates workshop in Cameroon

LRI co-facilitated a workshop in Duala, Cameroon, on 3 – 5 August 2015. The session was organized by COMIFAC, the Central African Forest Commission. The session was attended by 20 lawyers from the Foreign Affairs and Environment ministries of the countries from the Congo basin region. Its objective was to unpack the latest version of […]

Bonn and 10 more days

The Bonn Climate Change Conference concluded on Thursday, 11 June, at 5 pm. Parties did not go into extra time to negotiate a new agreement on climate. The outputs of their negotiations are reflected in two non-papers, the “Working document” (68 A4 pages) and the Streamlined and consolidated negotiation text (85 A4 pages), both dated […]

Reporting from Bonn: with signs of slow progress, the session approaches its end

Today is the tenth day of negotiations in Bonn, Germany, which is scheduled to conclude tomorrow 11th June. Over the last few days, since the meetings started on 1st June, Parties have been engaging in a first and second reading of the Geneva negotiating text, working through facilitated meetings to help streamline and consolidate the […]