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MEPIELAN E-Bulletin is a digital academic and practitioner newsletter of the MEPIELAN Centre, launched in 2010.ย  It features insight articles, reflective opinions, specially selected documents and cases, book reviews as well as news on thematic topics of direct interest of MEPIELAN Centre and on the activities and role of MEPIELAN Centre. Its content bridges theory and practice perspectives of relational international law, international environmental law and participatory governance , and international negotiating process, thus serving the primary goal of Centre: to develop an integrated, inter-disciplinary, relational, context-related and sustainably effective governance approach creating, protecting and advancing international common interest for the present and future generations. Providing a knowledge- and information-sharing platform and a scholarly forum, the Bulletin promotes innovative ideas and enlightened critical views, contributing to a broader scholarly debate on important issues of international common interest. The audience of the Bulletin includes academics, practitioners, researchers, university students, international lawyers, officials and personnel of international organizations and institutional arrangements, heads and personnel of national authorities at all levels (national, regional and local), and members of the civil society at large.

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Integrated Maritime Governance โ€“ The case of the EUโ€™s Integrated Maritime Policy

Promoting sustainable management of the oceans, seas, coasts and maritime sectors requires the development and implementation of an integrated approach to maritime governance. Promoting sustainable management of the oceans, seas, coasts and maritime sectors requires the development and implementation of an integrated approach to maritime governance. This, in turn, presupposes the establishment of policy frameworks, structures, and common tools which contribute to implementing an all-inclusive approach to sea-related activities.

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Alexandros Kailis | Aug 17, 2010 | 8 min read

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Integrated Maritime Governance โ€“ The case of the EUโ€™s Integrated Maritime Policy

Promoting sustainable management of the oceans, seas, coasts and maritime sectors requires the development and implementation of an integrated approach to maritime governance. Promoting sustainable management of the oceans, seas, coasts and maritime sectors requires the development and implementation of an integrated approach to maritime governance. This, in turn, presupposes the establishment of policy frameworks, structures, and common tools which contribute to implementing an all-inclusive approach to sea-related activities.

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Alexandros Kailis | Aug 17, 2010 | 8 min read

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Climate Change

The Nagoya Protocol to the CBD to Enter into Force in October 2014

On 14 July 2014, Uruguay deposited its instrument of ratification of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (The Nagoya Protocol), thus bringing to 51 the total number of ratifications to this ground-breaking legal instrument under the umbrella of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

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MEPIELAN Centre | Jul 29, 2014 | 5 min read

Public Participation in Environmental Governance

Parties to UNECE Treaties Adopt Declaration on the Application of EIA Procedures to Nuclear Energy Issues

The sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a Transboundary Context was held, in conjunction with the second session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), in Geneva, from 2 to 5 June 2014.

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MEPIELAN Centre | Jun 30, 2014 | 5 min read

Environmental Governance Regimes

MEDITERRANEAN SEA- The Union for the Mediterranean Holds its First Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Climate Change

On 13 May 2014, the first Union for Mediterranean (UfM) Meeting on Environment and Climate Change took place in Athens, bringing together the Ministers in charge of environment and climate change from the 43 countries comprising the UfM. The Ministerial Meeting was co-chaired by Mr Al Shakhshir, the Jordanian Minister of Environment, and Mr Janez Poto?nik, the EU Commissioner for Environment.

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MEPIELAN Centre | Jun 6, 2014 | 4 min read

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