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Date: 25-26 September 2023

Modality: hybrid

Location: In person in Panama City, Panama, and online (link for virtual participation)

The Fifth Montevideo Environmental Law Programme Regional Conference, legal responses to combat the three planetary environmental crises in Latin America and the Caribbean, will hold regional consultations on legal solutions to address climate change and biodiversity loss in the region. It will bring together national focal points, experts, and stakeholders to identify priorities for legal responses to the triple planetary crisis and examine potential legal, policy, and community-based actions to transform the principles of environmental law into practice. It will address key issues for environmental law in the region as well as the role of the judiciary in the advancement of Latin American and Caribbean environmental law and avenues to strengthen collaborative work and networking among relevant stakeholders, including environmental law clinics and the creation of a regional platform of environmental law lecturers.

 

Objectives

1. Conduct the Latin American and Caribbean stakeholders consultations on legal and policy solutions to combat climate change and biodiversity loss in the region

2. Promote and advance the implementation of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in the region and the protection of human rights defenders in environmental matters, considering the celebration of the Second Regional Forum on Environmental Human Rights Defenders

3. Launch the platform of environmental law lecturers in Latin American and Caribbean

4. Promote collaboration and networking among stakeholders to strengthen the effective implementation of environmental law

Organizers: The United Nations Environment Programme, Latin America and the Caribbean Office

With the support of The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, The United Nations Development Programme,  Fundacion Expoterra (Expoterra Foundation), the Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability (IIJS), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Alianza de Clínicas Jurídicas Ambientales de Latinoamerica y el Caribe (Alliance of Environmental Law Clinics of Latin America and the Caribbean).

In March 2019, the UN Environment Assembly adopted the Fifth Montevideo Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law (Montevideo V). Montevideo V is a ten-year intergovernmental programme running from January 2020 to December 2029. UNEP is the Secretariat of the programme. The objectives of Montevideo V include supporting the development and implementation of adequate and effective environmental legislation and legal frameworks to address environmental issues and the promotion of the role of environmental law in the context of effective environmental governance.

Multi-dimensional and innovative responses are required to effectively address the triple environmental crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution in Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite legal frameworks established to address environmental issues, environmental degradation continues, and climate change exacerbates these problems. The Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Law Conference aims to bring together regional and international experts to discuss solutions for effective environmental governance.

The Fifth Montevideo Programme Regional Conference in Latin America and the Caribbean builds on the success of previous conferences, seminars and trainings held in the region since the first edition of the Montevideo Programme five decades ago, gathering participants from academia, judiciary, governments, civil society, and the private sector to discuss environmental legal issues in the region.

· Document 1. General Agenda_ALC Regional Conference Fifth Montevideo Programme

· Document 2. Welcoming remarks Agenda

· Document 3. Session on the Regional Consultation on Climate Change

· Document 4. Session on the Right to a Healthy Environment

· Document 5. Session on the Role of Legislation in Promoting Ambient Air Quality Management

· Document 6. Session on Legal Responses to Combat Biodiversity Crisis

· Document 7. Session on the Regional Platform of Environmental Law Lecturers in Latin America and the Caribbean

· Document 8. Session on Environmental Defenders, Environmental Justice and Climate Emergency

· Document 10. Practical information for your travel to Panama

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