- Technical
legal assistance
UNEP provides technical, legal and institutional advice to Governments
of developing countries and countries with economies in transition,
for the development of national environmental legislation, including
for the implementation of multilateral environmental agreements.
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- Development
of International environmental law
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Negotiation and adoption of binding global and regional legal
instruments
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Development of soft law principles and guidelines
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Preparation of legal studies on emerging environmental law
issues
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- Judges
Programme
This programme is designed to strengthen the capacity of the judiciary
and other legal stakeholders around the world in implementing
environmental law.
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- Information
To enhance knowledge of environmental law and to make information
about environmental law widely available, UNEP drafts, develops
and distributes, free of charge, publications and materials in
the field of environmental law, both in hard copy and electronic
format and maintains environmental law electronic databases, such
as ECOLEX.
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- Regional
Activities
UNEP's Regional Activities include technical legal assistance,
training and regional capacity building programmes. UNEP increasingly
relies on its regional offices to carry out its global mandate
more effectively and experience has demonstrated the benefits
of working at the regional level.
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- Compliance
and enforcement
UNEP also promotes the effective implementation and enforcement
of environmental law, including multilateral environmental agreements.
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