The Environmental Law Programme (ELP) is the principal source of environmental governance and legal expertise to the IUCN Programme. The work of the ELP is carried out by the IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC) in collaboration with the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) and IUCN Global, Regional and Country Programmes.

The ELC’s primary areas of work are: • The conceptual development of environmental law and policy at international and national levels. • Provision of strategic and technical advice to implement environmental law at national and local levels. • Strengthening of national and local capacities to foster the effective implementation of environmental law at global, national and lo