Recommendations to the EU Commission on how to address the gaps in the exercise of Aarhus rights with regards to European youth.
Legal Seeds 3
Supporting and promoting legal engagement amongst young climate activists
2023-2024
Environmental Law
EU/Europe
Online
Youth Hub
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This project is supported by the European Climate Foundation.
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Overview
This is the third edition of our environmental law project, Legal Seeds, which aims to build capacity and raise awareness among young people on current environmental law challenges and opportunities! Legal Seeds 3 builds upon our previous projects, and this year we are focusing particularly on empowering young climate activists on climate litigation, and on strengthening youth participation in legal processes!
Main topics of discussion:
- Support young people in accessing justice and in engaging in climate litigation
- Strengthening youth voice in key climate policies, especially in the implementation of the Governance Regulation (NECP processes) and the EU Climate law
- Promoting further strengthening of the Aarhus's rights in both the Aarhus & EU level
- Strategically campaigning and advocating for commitments to stronger youth participation and representation in EU policy-making under the next EU cycle.
Who is the project for?
The project addresses young people, with or without a legal background, willing to get more involved in the processes behind the adoption of environmental laws and in climate litigation. The environmental law team is active in bridging the gap between youth activism and legal processes, especially at the Aarhus Convention and EU environmental advocacy levels.
Legal Seeds 3 is also tailored to create a network of young people who already include notions of climate litigation in their activism! The project aims to provide advocacy support to youth already engaged in climate litigation while helping young activists to establish connections and networks with other youth and non-youth legal actors.
Objectives
Enriching the knowledge bank composed of articles, handbooks, podcast episodes and social media material to help youth being updated about current EU and international legal topics.
Advocating for more ambitious EU environmental laws and for systemic youth participation in environmental decision-making processes.
We want to create a network to discuss and share youth litigation opportunities, advocacy initiatives and campaign developments on the topics of climate & environmental law.
Increasing youth role in climate litigation.
Have a look at the updates from the project!
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recently delivered decisions on three climate change-related cases. The webinar will unpack the results of the ECtHR decisions and reflect on the significance...
Climate Litigation as a tool for youth climate movements How Climate Litigation Empowers Youth Climate Movements? Register Climate Litigation as a tool for youth climate movements How Climate Litigation Empowers...
Join us on Friday 12th January from 16.00 to 17.00 CET for a session in which the YEE Environmental Law team will present the new initiative to launch a campaign...
This handbook works as an explainer to the EU regulated National Energy and Climate Plans, and as a guide to how to participate in the process as a young citizen.
The European Court of Human Rights will be hearing the Duarte Agostinho et al case on September 27th, the third climate lawsuit of its kind. This presents an opportunity for...
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YEE aims to unite environmental youth non-profit organisations in Europe in order to enhance international cooperation, increase knowledge about the climate crisis, raise awareness of environmental problems and to strengthen participation of youth in environmental decision-making.
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Supported by the Council of Europe through the European Youth Foundation.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
