Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law

Last chance to register! Accelerating Environmental Rights Protection for Women in the Asia-Pacific Region” is a side event in the 12th Asia-Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development (APFSD) 2025. 🕓 Friday, February 28 12.45 - 14.00 Bangkok time 📍Theatre Room, UNCC Bangkok 📌 Register online: https://lnkd.in/gHE57RtQ Register in-person through Indico 📌Marlene Nilsson of UNEP Asia-Pacific, H.E. Edmund Bon Tai Soon, Malaysia’s Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, Rocky Guzman of ARIEL, Cornelius Damar Hanung of FORUM-ASIA, Niña Estelle Fegi of APNED, Windi Arini of RWI, and Prilia Kartika Apsari of ICEL 📌 Organized by the ASEAN Youth Forum and Environmental Rights Alliance (ERA) Indonesia, in cooperation with APNED (Asia-Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders), Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law - ARIEL, FORUM-ASIA, Indonesian Center for Environmental Law, The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and UN Environment Programme.

Happy to be able to present on pollution law and litigation in ASEAN and share my experience on the importance of the draft ASEAN declaration on environmental rights being considered by AICHR in 2025.

Join the hybrid side event during the 12th Asia Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development - Accelerating Environmental Rights Protection for Women in the Asia-Pacific Region. The event will be joined with high-level panelists and speakers to discuss and accelerate environmental rights protection for women. 🕓 Friday, February 28 12.45 - 14.00 Bangkok time 📍Theatre Room, UNCC Bangkok 📌 Register online: https://lnkd.in/gHE57RtQ Register in-person through Indico 📌Organized by: APNED (Asia Pacific Network of Environmental Defenders), ARIEL (Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law), ASEAN Youth Forum, Environmental Rights Alliance (ERA) Indonesia, FORUM-ASIA, ICEL (Indonesian Center for Environmental Law), Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)

Register now! Online Book Launch of Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific 📌 Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2024) fills the gap on the limited data and academic analysis of ECTs. The book provides perspectives from leading academics, judges and lawyers from multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore and Sri Lanka, as well as pan-Asia-Pacific and global perspectives. 📌 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dRX3JMjT 🕓 February 13, 2025 | Thursday 12 noon to 1:00 pm Bangkok 📌 Organized by the Asia Pacific Center for Environmental Law - National University of Singapore, APCEL

Register now! Hybrid Round Table Discussion of COP29 Insights Exhange 📌 Organized by the Asia Pacific Center for Environmental Law - National University of Singapore, APCEL brings together leading climate change and environmental law scholars to discuss COP29's outcomes and challenges ahead. 📌 Join online or in-person. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gjDAXmzd 🕓 February 6, 2025 | Thursday 8:00 to 9:40 am Bangkok 📍Lee Sheridan Conference Room, NUS Law Bukit Timah Campus

With 2025 as the halfway point of the UN Ocean Decade, it’s time to turn the tide toward Ocean Equity. By advancing environmental rights, we can ensure fair access to ocean resources and protect vulnerable communities. 🌊💙 Show your support for a strong environmental rights framework in ASEAN by signing this statement: https://lnkd.in/gHiMh5bH

On our wishlist for 2025: a genuine and robust #ASEANEnvironmentalRights Declaration ❇️ WATCH this video covering civil society’s blueprint for this: the ASEAN Peoples’ Declaration on Environmental Rights! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gay47cfg ❇️ This video is the second in our #ASEANEnvironmentalRights series, which aims to shed light on this critical development and how we can be part of it, ensuring that the policy truly safeguards our future. 🔴 Missing context? Watch the first video on https://lnkd.in/grw-buKu 🔃 Share, like, subscribe, and sign on to our statement supporting the adoption of an #ASEAN Peoples’ Declaration, in order to truly protect environmental defenders, indigenous people, youth, and other vulnerable groups: https://lnkd.in/gZAhY-QU Asian Research Institute for Environmental Law Indonesian Center for Environmental Law ASEAN Youth Forum Youths United for Earth (YUFE)

ARIEL in action to beat plastic pollution! The ARIEL team actively participated in the INC-5, held in Busan, South Korea 🌎🌊 🔹 Rocky Guzman, ARIEL’s Deputy Director, was a speaker at three side events on ocean governance and regional collaboration in addressing plastic pollution. 🔹 Coleen Salamat, ARIEL’s Outreach Manager and Asia Pacific Waste Trade Project Coordinator of Break Free From Plastic, moderated an event on plastic waste trade. ARIEL is committed to ending plastic pollution and forging solutions towards a sustainable future. To learn more about how you can help, watch our Seeds of Justice special episode on the INC-5! https://lnkd.in/gEAc8xF8

"The ICJ’s 15 judges from around the world must now consider two questions: what are countries obliged to do under international law to protect the climate and environment from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions? And what are the legal consequences for governments when their acts, or lack of action, have significantly harmed the climate and environment?"