The pioneering Aarhus Convention protects three procedural rights — access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters — in pursuit environmental democracy. Last week the EU Commission tried to undermine and weaken it.

The political guidelines of Ursula von der Leyen’s second EU Commission underline how “Europe’s future in a fractured world will depend on having a strong democracy”.(…) Yet last week, her commission conducted their very own attack (…) at the 8th Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the UNECE Aarhus Convention.

The pioneering Aarhus Convention protects three procedural rights — access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters — in pursuit environmental democracy.