Environmental Law

Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development

www.field.org.uk
FIELD is an independent subsidiary IIED, part campaigning, part research, and part working as a conventional law firm. FIELD works with local partners, NGOs and institutions and has a worldwide reputation for expertise in the development and application of international environmental law and for siding with the disadvantaged.

Legal empowerment in investment projects

Where local resource rights are weak, investment projects may undermine the ability of local groups to access the resources on which they depend. Weakness of local resource rights may also undermine the position of local resource users in their negotiations with incoming investors; and therefore limit their ability to benefit from investment projects through negotiated benefit-sharing arrangements.

Least Developed Countries & Small Island Developing States' Workshop

Consensus building is essential for successful negotiation and agreement of post-2012 Kyoto frameworks.
 

Environmental Law

Often, the people most vulnerable to the impacts of environmental degradation are the least equipped to shape the necessary solutions. We help redress the balance by sharing ways to use law to protect the environment with people and communities in developing countries.

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