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International Institute for Law and the Environment
 
   
El IIDMA -  Introduction l Goals  l Team l Advisory Board l Funding l Collaborations
 

IIDMA- International Institute for Law and the Environment

Introduction

The increasing complexity of environmental concerns requires enhanced coordination and commitment from both public authorities and civil society at the international and domestic levels.

Law provides exceptional tools for environmental protection but to ensure its correct implementation and enforcement it is necessary to make a throughout follow-up. Otherwise, environmental degradation will not stop. The Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Medio Ambiente (IIDMA) was established to respond to that needs by a group of legal professionals.

IIDMA designs and launches its own projects as well as attends the requests from public and private institutions and organizations requiring support in the design and implementation of environmental protection mechanisms based on environmental law and policy tools.

The work of the Institute is developed at the international, regional and national scopes and offers its experience in international, EC, comparative and domestic law. IIDMA’s team is comprised of fully qualified lawyers graduated in Spanish as well as European and American Universities. It also counts with the support of associates qualified in social and natural sciences as well as in technological fields.

Goals
» Research, develop and implement international and European Community law as a means to protect the environment. The Institute fosters legal responses to current social and ecological needs, while promoting the participation of all sectors of society in decision-making and implementation processes.
» Promote cooperation to development in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development.
» Increase social awareness of environmental problems and facilitate the assumption of common but differentiated responsibilities to face these concerns.
» Respond to the legal challenges posed by scientific and technological development and by its impact on humans and the environment.
 

Funding

IIDMA receives its funds primarily from: grants from foundations; contributions from public institutions; income proceeding from some of the Institute's activities and legal advice; donations and assignments; membership fees.

 

Advisory Board - Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Medio Ambiente (IIDMA)
Joaquín Arango
 
Director, Department of Government and Public Administration, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset; Professor of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.  

Felix Dodds
 
Executive Director of the Stakeholder Forum. Author of: Human and Environmental Security (2005), How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings - Mine is a Cafe Latte (2004), Earth Summit 2002 - A New Deal (2000 and 2002), The Way Forward beyond Agenda 21 (1997 and 1997), Into the 21st Century An Agenda for Political Realignment (1988).  

Demetrio Loperena Rota
 
Professor of Administrative Law, Universidad del País Vasco; Assistant Secretary General, International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation.  

Mercedes Mas de Xaxás
 
International Consultant on health and development policy.  

Norma Munguía Aldaraca
 
Director of Pro-Tierra Servicios Ambientales, México. Independent Councelor for the Mexican National Commission on Biodiversity. Professor of environmental law at Universidad La Salle and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.  

Franx Xaver Perrez
 
Doctor in Law, New York University ; Head of Section Global Affairs, International Affairs Division, Swiss Agency for the Environment  

Richard Stewart
 

Emily Kempin Professor of Law, New York University ; Director of the Center on Environmental and Land Use Law, New York University .

 

Henry Thiagaraj
 
Director, Delta Eco-care Centre (Kadalur, India ) and Funding Director of Oneworld Educational Trust, Director of the Human Rights Education Movement, India .  

Hope White-Davis
 
Doctor in Education; President of WAFUNIF (The World Association of Former United Nations Interns and Fellows).  


Collaborations (IIDMA)
IIDMA has received support and funds from the following institutions:
 

Ajuntament de Barcelona

American International Group

Auto-Escuela Vicálvaro, S.L

Banco Santander Central Hispano

Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo (CAM)

Confederación Hidrográfica del Duero

Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadiana

Comisión Europea- DG Medio Ambiente

CosmoCaixa

Estudio Mariscal, SA

Fundación AGBAR

Fundación Biodiversidad

Fundación José Ortega y Gasset

 

 

Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento

Fundació Tam-Tam

Junta de Extremadura

Hewlett-Packard

Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (España)

Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (Portugal)

New York University School of Law

Obra Social de Caja de Madrid

The Tinker Foundation

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Universidad Carlos III

 

 

 
IIDMA has worked for and collaborated with the following institutions and organizations:
 

Alto Comisionado de Derechos Humanos de NN.UU

British Council

Casa Encendida

CECOT

Club Español del Medio Ambiente

Comisión Europea- DG Medio Ambiente

Compañía de la Formación

Consorci per a la Gestió dels Residus Urbans de Menorca

CPQ Ibérica, S.A.

Diseños y Realizaciones, S.L.

Ecoindustria

Estoli , S.A.

Etegma

Eyser, S.A

 

Fundación Biodiversidad

Fundación Ecología y Desarrollo

Fundación Escuela de Organización Industrial

Fundación Santander Central Hispano

Generalitat de Catalunya

Generalitat Valenciana

Gobierno del Estado de Zacatecas (México)

In.nova

Fundació Internacional Olof Palme

Mantei-Sereng

Mileu, Ltd.

Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (España)

Montsaly

Oceana- Europe

The Earth Council

WWF-International

 

 

 

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