ICEL AT THE IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS 2025
The International Council of Environmental Law actively participated at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, held in Abu Dhabi from 9-15 October 2025. Together with the Government of France, [...]
ICEL AT THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR A PLASTICS TREATY
ICEL Executive President, John Scanlon AO, attended the Second Part of the Fifth Session (INC-5.2) of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding [...]
ICEL AT THE PREPARATORY COMMISSION FOR THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE BBNJ Agreement
In August 2025, ICEL Representative for the Oceans, Prof. Hiroko Muraki Gottlieb led an ICEL delegation attending the first and second meetings of the Preparatory Commission for the Entry into [...]
ICEL HOSTS SIDE-EVENT AT UN OCEAN CONFERENCE ON UN WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
On 5 June 2025 for UN World Environment Day, ICEL hosted an official side-event at the 3rd UN Ocean Conference, on “Addressing marine wildlife trafficking to protect our oceans”. Watch the event [...]
SIDE-EVENT ON TRAFFICKING OF NON-CITES LISTED SPECIES AT THE UN COMMISSION ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
On 23 May 2025, ICEL hosted a side-event at the 34th Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), the principal policymaking body of the United Nations in the [...]
UN Side-Event Briefing on Strengthening Cooperation for International Environmental Law
UN Side-event Briefing on Strengthening Cooperation for International Environmental Law – 27 October 2020 – Co-sponsored by the Missions of Costa Rica and France to the UN in New York Prof. [...]
COVID-19 – How Do We Prevent the Next Outbreak?
ICEL promotes discussion on “One World, One Health”: Legal Preparations to Avert a Pandemic. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), it is only the latest novel infectious disease likely originated in [...]
