A/HRC/28/61 20. The compilation of good practices will be available at the official website of the mandate holder (available through www.ohchr.org) and on the personal website of the Independent Expert (http://ieenvironment.org). Although the compilation is only in English at the moment, the Independent Expert hopes to find resources to have the practices translated into the other official languages of the United Nations. 21. The compilation will also be available on a website created for it (environmentalrightsdatabase.org). The website will facilitate searching for good practices with key words and will allow the addition of more good practices in the future. III. Good practices in the use of human rights obligations relating to the environment 22. The following description of good practices in the use of human rights obligations in relation to environmental protection is organized into nine categories: (a) procedural obligations generally; (b) the obligation to make environmental information public; (c) the obligation to facilitate public participation in environmental decision-making; (d) the obligation to protect the rights of expression and association; (e) the obligation to provide access to legal remedies; (f) substantive obligations; (g) obligations relating to non-State actors; (h) obligations relating to transboundary harm; and (i) obligations relating to those in vulnerable situations. Practices that fall into more than one category were placed in the category that seemed most relevant. 23. Because of space limitations, this report describes the practices only briefly. A fuller description of each practice is available at the websites noted above. 24. The Independent Expert is well aware that there are many more good practices in this field than those that this project has identified. The practices included here should be taken as illustrative, rather than exhaustive, of the many innovative and exemplary efforts being made to bring a human rights perspective to environmental protection. A. Procedural obligations 25. Human rights law imposes procedural obligations on States in relation to environmental protection, including duties: (a) to assess environmental impacts and make environmental information public; (b) to facilitate public participation in environmental decision-making, including by protecting the rights of expression and association; and (c) to provide access to remedies for harm (A/HRC/25/53, para. 29). These obligations also have support in international environmental instruments, particularly Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration, which provides that “each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities” and “the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes”, and that “effective access to judicial and administrative proceedings, including redress and remedy, shall be provided.” 26. The following sections of this report describe good practices in the use of each of these procedural obligations. This section describes several practices that are relevant to the full range of procedural obligations. 27. One such practice was the adoption in 2010 by the UNEP Governing Council of the Bali Guidelines for the Development of National Legislation on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, 26 voluntary 6

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