Past Colloquia

The Academy Colloquia are annual international gatherings of specialists in environmental law to facilitate collaboration and communication among experts across all regions of the world. These meetings provide extensive opportunities for networking, for scholars and policy makers. Collaboration across research specialties and across the world have been important outcomes of these colloquia.

Since 2003, the IUCN Academy has held eight annual Colloquia to bring together legal scholars and policy makers to address the most urgent issues related to environmental law, policy and governance. These major events, convened in locations around the globe, have generated important dialogue about issues and priorities related to sustainable development, biodiversity, compliance and enforcement, energy and environmental protection and poverty alleviation.

• First Colloquium, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development, November 2003
• Second Colloquium, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Human Habitats and Land Stewardship, October 2004
• Third Colloquium, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Biodiversity: Bridging the Divide, July 2005
• Fourth Colloquium, Pace University, White Plains, NY, USA, Compliance and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, October 2006
• Fifth Colloquium, Rio de Janeiro and Parati, Brazil, Rio+15: A Legal Critique of Ecologically Sustainable Development, June 2007
• Sixth Colloquium, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico, Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection, November 2008
• Seventh Colloquium, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Environmental Governance and Sustainability, November 2009
• Eighth Colloquium, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium,  Linkages Between Biodiversity and Climate Change, September 2010
• Ninth Colloquium, North-West University, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Water and the Law: Towards Sustainability, July 2011