Environmental Governance

Nordeco has a long track-record of working with government agencies, civil society, NGOs, indigenous peoples, and private sector on issues related to environmental governance. We work with the rules, processes and behaviour that affect the way powers are exercised in the field of environmental policies, particularly as regards openness, participation, accountability, effectiveness and coherence.

An important instrument for this is the The Aarhus Convention, which establishes a number of rights of the public (individuals and their associations) with regard to the environment. The Parties to the Convention are required to make the necessary provisions so that public authorities (at national, regional or local level) will contribute to these rights to become effective. The Convention provides for access environmental information, the right to participate in environmental decision-making, and the right to achieve achieve justice on environmental matters.

Nordeco provides services related to design, review and evaluation of environmental governance aspects in projects and programmes. We also provide assistance to monitoring systems, conflict resolution, and post-conflict assessments.