Tag: environmental protection

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty 30th anniversary

  

  By Professor Klaus Dodds (*) – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was agreed in 1991 and came into force in 1998, once it had been ratified by all 26 (currently 28) Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties. Professor Klaus Dodds explores the extensive and delicate negotiations that made this possible.

• Thursday, May 30th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bill to weaken environmental protection of the Amazon forest fails in Brazilian congress

  

  An attempt by Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and lawmakers backed by big agriculture to weaken environmental laws protecting the Amazon forest and other biomes has failed, as Congress will not vote into law a decree that weakened existing legislation.