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Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente
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Sustainable Development
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| Affiliation with other organizations: | AIDA is a member of the following networks that work on sustainable development issues: Redlar: - Red Latinoamericana de comunidades afectadas por grandes represas y sus aliados - Coalición Internacional de Organizaciones por los Derechos Humanos en las Américas - several of our staff are members of ELAW, Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide - Red por la Justicia Ambiental en, Colombia - Climate Action Network (CAN), and CAN Latino America CANLA (member of the administrative council) - Grupo de Financiamiento de Cambio Climático de México, - Latin American Network for short lived climate pollutants RAAC |
| Publications: | AIDA has published the following materials on sustainable development issues: - La Oroya Can't Wait (2002) - AIDA's Guide to Environmental Defense before the Inter-American System of Human Rights (Spanish, 2008; English and Portuguese, 2010) - Concept Paper on Black Carbon: Effects on Climate and Opportunities for Regulation (2010) - Large Dams in the Americas, Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? (2010) - The Human Rights Impacts of Climate Change in the Americas (2011) - Coral reefs in Costa Rica: Economic Value, Threats and International Legal Commitments to Protect Them (Spanish, 2013) |
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| Involvement in Public Administration: | AIDA works to strengthen and enforce regional environmental law by providing information to decision makers, forging international alliances and equipping stakeholders with knowledge and tools to get involved. AIDA also builds the capacity of citizens to play a part and helps expand the opportunities for their participation. Our main goal is to promote legal advocacy for environmental protection by encouraging civil organizations to get involved so they can remind states of their international and national commitments so that they put these into practice. |
| Publications: | The Guide to Environmental Defense: Building a Strategy for the Litigation of Cases before the Inter-American System for Human Rights is a manual on how to strategically and appropriately use the Inter-American System to protect human rights affected by environmental degradation. The guide is available in three of the four official languages of the Organization of American States (OAS): English, Portuguese and Spanish. Coral Reefs in Costa Rica: Economic Value, Threats and International Legal Commitments to Protect Them (Spanish). Coral Reefs in Costa Rica: Economic Value, Threats and International Legal Commitments to Protect Them (Spanish). |
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