The Seventh Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law

 

The Seventh Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law took place in Wuhan, China, November 1 – 5, 2009. The event was co-sponsored by the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and the Research Institute of Environmental Law at Wuhan University.


The majority of electronic presentations made at Wuhan, at the workshop and the colloquium event, are available and can be accessed at the links just below.

On October 31, the IUCN Academy held a Workshop on Biofuels and Climate Change Law. The full day meeting provided an opportunity to examine the legal issues related to biofuels, particularly with respect to climate change. The presentations delivered by the speakers can be downloaded directly.

The theme of the Colloquium was Environmental Governance and Sustainability. More than 170 scholars (see photo above) from around the world took part in the event. The majority of presentations delivered a the Colloquium have now been posted.

Our Distinguished Speaker, Michael Faure, of Maastricht University and Erasmus University in the Netherlands, delivered his lecture on Instruments for Environmental Governance: What Works? This is the only paper from the Wuhan events that we are making widely available.