SCELG to develop new UNEP course on gender and the environment
May 2022 — SCELG member, Prof Elisa Morgera, has been awarded a consultancy from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to develop a new e-learning programme on Gender and the Environment for InforMEA (the UN Information Portal on Multilateral Environmental Agreements) and the Law and Environment Assistance Platform.
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The course will explore relevant sources of international law on human rights, the environment and the ocean, including gender issues related to marine biodiversity and plastic pollution. It will draw on the approach developed by Prof Morgera and colleagues under the One Ocean Hub to develop an e-learning courses on SDG 14 (Life Below Water) and on ocean plastics, which integrated international human rights law.
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- Learn more about SCELG’s work onhuman rights and biodiversity
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