Dr John Cortes, the Minister for Education and the Environment, told Parliament the treaty was one of the most significant and positive developments for Gibraltar in decades adding it would provide ...

Today, the world celebrates Earth Day, a commemoration that began in 1970 to mark the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement. Since then, Earth Day has become a global event ...

The collapse of talks about a UN plastics treaty is the wake-up call we didn’t need. It’s time to study what is going wrong and why. On 15 August in Geneva, Switzerland, a fifth round of negotiations ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is generally agreed to be the foundation of international human rights law. Adopted in 1948, the UDHR has inspired a rich body of legally binding ...

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University The ACT Party’s election promise of a ...

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Spanning over 300 pages, the new environmental protection legislation includes fundamental changes in how projects are evaluated by the authorities for environmental approval, permitting mechanisms ...

A bill which sought to “reinterpret” New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, signed between Māori tribal leaders and the British Crown in 1840, has failed in parliament by 11 votes to 112. The second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China has drafted a law on Antarctic affairs, as Beijing looks to protect its interests and strengthen its role in the governance ...