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The International Environmental Law Project (IELP) is attending the negotiations to adopt a new climate change agreement in Cancun, Mexico, 29 November through 10 December. -
On the first day of working meetings of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), IELP distributed to the 175 Parties a comprehensive analysis of the Convention that examines the core objectives of the treaty in the context of some of the most important provisions of the Convention. -
Chris Wold, director of the International Environmental Law Project (IELP), and Erica Thorson, IELP clinical professor, are in Doha, Qatar to help 175 member governments make decisions to protect species from overutilization due to international trade. -
Professors Chris Wold and Erica Thorson, along with Professor Melissa Powers, and five IELP students attended the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark. -
IELP helped the government of Mauritius to develop legislation to protect its environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs). -
IELP provided Morocco’s Environmental Ministry with a legal analysis of Morocco’s wildlife and customs legislation over concerns about Morocco’s exportation of Barbary macaques. -
With many commercially valuable fish stocks crashing and the Parties to the CITES debating a proposal that would effectively ban the commercial trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, IELP has been instrumental in unraveling a number of complicated legal questions. -
On May 8, 1998, the governments of Costa Rica and Panama signed the Cooperative Agreement for the Conservation of Sea Turtles of the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. IELP played a central role. -
The nexus between trade and the environment has risen in prominence since 1991. Read more about IELP’s projects relating to the trade and the environment debate. -
IELP has been working as part of the Pacific Salmon Treaty Reform Coalition to gain access to the meetings of the Pacific Salmon Commission, which makes harvest allocations for oceanic salmon fisheries and other important decisions regarding one of the Northwest’s most prized natural resources. -
IELP and petitioners compel the Fish and Wildlife Service to eliminate the illegal exemption for the logging industry and to initiate a discussion of how to manage forests for bird conservation and commercial logging. -
IELP provides legal advice relating to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to governments and environmental groups. -
IELP has been helping the International Whaling Commission (IWC) find its way in the modern era of environmental law by preparing detailed comparative assessments of compliance regimes to provide a basis for the adoption of new regulations for the resumption of commercial whaling. -
The International Environmental Law Project tackles some of today’s most challenging global legal issues. -
The Oregonian reports students from Lewis & Clark Law School are getting invaluable experience helping developing countries prepare arguments and research international law at the United Nations climate summit under way in Copenhagen. -
International Environmental Law Project students are blogging about their efforts to negotiate reductions in emissions at the Copenhagen climate summit. -
Erica Thorson, Clinical Law Professor at the International Environmental Law Project (IELP), recently returned from Morocco where she participated in a customs training workshop with two leading international conservation organizations, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Species Survival Network (SSN). -
Check out IELP’s blog from the 15th annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen. 2009. -
The International Environmental Law Project tackles some of today’s most challenging global legal issues. -
Documents defining proposed criteria for World Heritage Species as well as case studies and discussion papers involving the protection of gorillas and apes. -
On June 26, 2007, IELP prepared a petition to list La Amistad International Park in Panama and Costa Rica as a World Heritage site in Danger due to the imminent construction of four hydroelectric dams and increasing problems with human encroachment. -
On February 16, 2006, the International Environmental Law Project (IELP) petitioned the World Heritage Committee to list Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park as a World Heritage Site in Danger due to the effects of climate change.
Contact Us
The International Environmental Law Project is located in The Lewis & Clark Law School.
Director
Chris Wold
wold@lclark.edu
Phone: 503-768-6734
Fax: 503-768-6642
Staff Attorney
Erica Lyman
ejt@lclark.edu
Phone: 503-768-6715
Fax: 503-768-6642
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