Is it time for an International Court for the Environment?
An interview with Amedeo Postiglione, director of the ICEF Foundation
In 2012, the ICEF Foundation organized a meeting in Rome in view of the UN conference in Rio de Janeiro. Objective: to stimulate Italy to promote the proposal to create a World Environment Agency and an International Court for the Environment.
Since 1988 ICEF has been working
on the environmental governance internationally.
ICEF (International Court of the Environment Foundation) is a non-profit NGO, created in 1988 by Amedeo Postiglione, Judge of the Italian Supreme Court. Since 1978 he was coordinator of the environmental Working Group: “Ecology and Territory”. The Foundation is internationally recognized and is accredited with the United Nations (ECOSOF and FAO) and with the European Council.
Aims
An International Court of the Environment and an International Environmental Agency to guarantee the human right to the environment for every citizen of the world.
History
Committed to environmental justice Since 1978, in 1988, Amedeo Postiglione, judge of the Italian Supreme Court, founded ICEF, the International Court of the Environment Foundation.
Library
Publications and documents relating to ICEF research and promotion activities about environmental governance and environmental justice. In italian and english language.
Initiatives
For an International Agency of the Environment and an International Court of the Environment.
Environmental Governance, Civil Society Coalition, Women’s Forum, events.
Support ICEF
The Association “Amici dell’ICEF” gives the possibility to know at a scientific level the historical memory of the ICEF Foundation, making available all the material of its office, and to the new members will be given two books particularly interesting for the acknowledgement of the main issues of the Foundation.