Earlier this month, I traveled to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to represent the Vance Center at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27). This was the first time that the Vance Center attend... Read More
The Vance Center convened a full-day programmatic event with more than 60 participants, representing US, Latin American, European, and African law firms, NGO clients and other stakeholders. Read More
By a vote of 161-0-8 (abstentions), the UN General Assembly in July passed a resolution recognizing the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and called upon States, international... Read More
[Photo Credit: Velvet/Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 License] Vance Center Environment Program Staff Attorney Sam Bookman joined in a discussion at The Hague Peace Palace re... Read More
The Vance Center Environment Program co-hosted workshops over two days with the Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network – WECAN International for the benefit of WECAN’s network of women and ... Read More
The 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize for South & Central America has been awarded to two Ecuadorian Indigenous land defenders, Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvarez. The Goldman Prize is the worl... Read More
