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Climate victims fight back

15. 12. 2009

Copenhagen, Denmark — The Czech Ministry of Environment publicly confirmed today that it has received a request from the Federated States of Micronesia for a transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of its biggest coal-fired power plant, Prunerov (1). This is the first time that current or future climate victims could legally influence a foreign industry by arguing that it endangers them due to greenhouse gas emissions.

International conference on access to environmental justice took place in Brno

21. 4. 2009

On 16 and 17 April, an international conference on access to justice in environmental matters was held at the Supreme Administrative Court in Brno. The conference was organized by the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic in the scope of the Czech EU presidency. More than 80 experts from 17 European countries (judges and assistants form higher courts, lawyers of ministries, university pedagogues, attorneys and others) took part on it.

EIB green light for controversial Czech road projects would contravene EU

22. 1. 2008

Brno, Czech Republic -- Eighteen Czech non-governmental organisations have sent a letter to Philippe Maystadt, president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), [1] informing him of several problematic aspects involved in planned high-speed roads and the extension of a motorway in the Czech region of south Moravia.