2nd World Environmental Law Congress

This past year the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) made the decision to postpone the 2nd World Environmental Law Congress (Congress), originally planned for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in March 2020.

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 global health pandemic, WCEL has now decided to split the global Congress into the following five converging regional hybrid Congresses:

Inter-American Environmental Law Congress (Mexico City, Mexico, 8-9 July 2021)
Inaugural Oceania Environmental Law Conference in conjunction with the Oceania Environmental Law Congress (Suva, Fiji, 14-16 July 2021)
Africa Environmental Law Congress (Rabat, Morocco, 28-29 July 2021)
European Environmental Law Congress (Oslo, Norway, November 2021)
Asia Environmental Law Congress (TBC)

The regional Congresses will consider A Critical Decade for Environmental Law by expanding upon the original themes of the 2nd World Environmental Law Congress. The focus on the future, in connection with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is an innovative look forward to and beyond the next decade for the legal discipline. In light of emerging and continuing global challenges, and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, all regional Congresses will reaffirm, further develop, and advance the 2016 World Declaration on the Environmental Rule of Law and set the stage for the design of its implementation guidelines.