Current situation
Environmental governance is an issue that spans many fields of action. It basically deals with how decisions are prepared and taken, and who is involved in that process. Environmental governance should not be limited to the functioning of environmental authorities. Agriculture, transport, cohesion, energy, development taxation, internal market: all these policies can have a tremendous impact on the environment. The debate is equally relevant to them.
For the EEB, the main purpose of getting involved in discussions on Governance is to empower citizens in public decision-making, and, in this way, to promote sustainable development.
What is the EEB doing?
The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 had environmental governance as one of its key agenda items. Many EEB members had been active in the Summit. The EEB itself focused on two issues: environmental governance and consumption and production patterns. The EEB takes part in PP10: Partnership on Principle 10 (one of the Principles of the 1992 Rio Summit, on environmental governance) in a coalition with NGOs from across the globe as well as governments and the European Union. The EEB follows up the Aarhus Convention . EEB’s Secretary General is member of the Coordination Body of the European Ecoforum and Chair of its Public Participation Campaign’s Committee. In 2002 he was appointed by the first Meeting of Parties of the Aarhus Convention into the Bureau of the Convention (see also Transparency and Public Participation).
The EEB works also together with the Platform of European Social Organisations (Social Platform) and human rights and development organisations on the European Constitution and in general on governance issues.
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