2nd World Environmental Law Congress – European Regional Event A Critical Decade for Environmental Law
Measuring the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators
Paris, France; Online Thursday 16 December – Friday 17 December 2021
Legal regimes are critical to address environmental threats from pollution, biodiversity loss, and the climate crisis. Environmental laws are only useful, however, if they are effectively applied. Legal indicators provide a mechanism to evaluate the impact of laws on the natural environment.
On the first day of this event, speakers will present legal indicators and explore their effectiveness in international, European, and national environmental law. On the second day, speakers will evaluate the effectiveness of international conventions and sustainable development goals through these legal indicators.
Presentation of the book Measuring the effectivity of environmental law Legal indicators for sustainable development, Michel Prieur, Christophe Bastin with the assistance from Mohamed Ali Mekouar by Emilie GAILLARD, General Coordinator of the Normandy Chair of Excellence for
Key Speakers:
- JÉRÔME FROMAGEAU, President of the French Society for Environmental Law
- CHARLESVAUTROT-SCHWARZ, Director of the Institute of Public Law Studies
- MICHEL PRIEUR, President of the International Center for Comparative Environmental Law
- CHRISTINA VOIGT, Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law International Union for Conservation of Nature, Professor of Law, University of Oslo, Norway
- PATRICIA KAMERI-MBOTE, Director of the Law Division, of the United Nations Environment Programme
- EMILIE GAILLARD, General Coordinator of the Normandy Chair of Excellence for Peace, CNRS, Normandy Region, MRSH/University of Cain