Today in Bonn, delegates are taking a first step towards understanding and fixing the remarkable limitations placed
on civil society participation at the UN climate talks.
According to Paulo Moutinho, from the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazí» nia, IPAM), an NGO also participating in the process, this construction model of Principles and Criteria, based on
effective civil society participation, will surely be able to be adopted by other countries.
Currently, Alison is PI on the ESRC funded project «International Professional Fora: a study in
civil society participation in internet governance» (September 2015 - September 2018) with CIs George Christou (Warwick) and Seamus Simpson (Salford) and an ESRC Senior Fellow on the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe programme with the project «The impact of a proposed UK Brexit from the EU: the UK communications industries».
The Regulation of Nano - particles under the European Biocidal Products Directive: Challenges for Effective Civil Society Participation
There are many other failures in the document related to women's reproduction health, missed opportunities to start new global treaties
on civil society participation and on sustainability reporting, the extraordinary lack of any reference to armed conflicts, nuclear energy (especially in light of the fukushima disaster), and many others.
We believe that conditions of intellectual freedom,
civil society participation, and respect for human rights are essential for the people of Canada and China to secure sustainable prosperity;
This happened despite repeated denials by the Global Compact Office that it gives approval to participating companies, and its insistence that
civil society participation is integral to the success of this initiative.
While protesting this outrage, youth were basically blackmailed into silence by the unjustified threat by the UNFCCC Secretariat of
all civil society participation being cut unless we left quietly.
Today was a pivotal moment in reforming some of the policies related to
civil society participation.
Given that the CDM rules to not yet fulfill these requirements, the human rights and climate change working group, with the support of several network members prepared a submission focusing on the need to (1) establish institutional safeguards; (2) strengthen local community and
civil society participation; and (3) provide a means to consider and address local stakeholders» concerns.
A resolution by Chile to increase transparency and
civil society participation was adopted by simple majority.
The EU provides substantial support to the implementation of African governance commitments on national, regional and continental level, including efforts to strengthen local authorities and
civil society participation.