Under the aegis of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Commission on Environmental Law, and with support from the Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable, the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences of Tunis, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and Natural Justice (through its African Activists for Climate Justice project financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs), issue no. 8/2023 of the Revue africaine de droit de l’environnement – African Journal of Environmental Law (RADE) will focus on the following theme: Climate Justice and Extractive Industries in African Law.
The conclusions of the experts and practitioners meeting at the international seminar on the effective enforcement of environmental law in French-speaking Africa, held in Ouagadougou in November 2011, highlighted the widespread lack of awareness of this new and important branch of law among a broad range of environmental and sustainable development stakeholders.
The Revue africaine de droit de l’environnement – African Journal of Environmental Law was founded one year later in response to the need to promote environmental law and ensure that it is widely understood and enforced on the continent. RADE, with its specific focus on African environmental law, aims to serve as a vehicle for ideas and information, experience sharing and exchanges of best practices, in order to foster progress and strengthen the impact of this vital legal discipline in Africa. Read more
