On Thursday, 20 October 2022, the “International Soil Law and Governance Conference” will take place fully online. Organised by the Institute of Law of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), together with the Research Center on Climate Change Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Graz (ClimLaw: Graz) and the German Environment Agency (UBA). Cooperation partners are the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

The one-day conference starts at 10:00 am and concludes at 4:30 pm. No participation fee will be charged. The online event welcomes participants in a freely accessible livestream via Zoom. Please find further information about the planned programme in the Agenda. Kindly send an email to [email protected] to register your participation.

The Global Soil Partnership advocates to strengthen soil governance at global, national and local levels to safeguard soils from chemical, biological, and physical threats while supporting the development of new frameworks and policies that fit the current socio-economic landscape. To ensure that policymakers and governments are fully aware of soil and ecosystem services and include them in policy frameworks, the GSP has launched the SoilEX platform, a global database that aims to facilitate access to information on existing legal instruments on soil protection and the prevention of soil degradation.  

Want to learn more about the GSP’s work on soil governance, visit: https://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/areas-of-work/soil-governance/en/