Environmental Governance
ELRI’s environmental governance programs are aimed towards
developing inventive approaches to solving and or mitigating new or entrenched
environmental problems and changing tools and economies. ELRI views “governance” here as including the
range of legal and other techniques employed in both the private and public
sectors to foster environmental protection. Such governance tools include, not
only conventional regulations (legal or customary), but environmental
assessments, information disclosure, market mechanisms, economic incentives,
and public policies and programs that promote voluntary environmental
stewardship.
ELRI ensures that environmental governance programs operate at
the international, federal, state and local levels. Thus the key objectives are
to:
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Develop and foster innovative government and business approaches
to environmental protection.
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Safeguard and strengthen the implementation environmental laws.
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Introduce policymakers and practitioners to innovative ideas
from the academia.
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Build the capacity of judicial officers on the development,
implementation and enforcement of environmental laws.
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Develop effective environmental, health, and safety governance
structures for new technologies in environmental management.