Understanding Aarhus | a simple handbook on access to climate justice at EU level

With this handbook, we aim to provide an overview of access to justice issues to challenge decisions of the EU institutions.

We hope that this will help you to understand the importance of access to justice and empower you to join the fight for proper Regulation on access to justice. One that is in line with international law, that is democratic, that enables us to challenge key decisions affecting our current lives and futures and that respects the rule of law.

We start with an introduction to the Aarhus Convention, then an overview of the EU’s messy relationship with the Convention before we dive deeper into the current rules for access to justice and explain why the EU is in breach of international law. As this handbook can only provide an overview of this vast topic, we provide lots of links throughout and a list of useful resources at the end.