International Workshop onParticipation Principle Indicators under the Environmental
Law: Towards Establishing International Collaboration inPursuit of Environmental JusticeDate: March 9 - 10, 2015
Venue: Osaka University, Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University Hall, 1st Floor, Assembly Hall
Language: English (Chinese Mandarin to English consecutive interpretation will be provided)
Organizers: GREEN ACCESS PROJECT II “Review of Legal Indicators for the Participation Principle in Environmental Matters Promotion of an International Cooperation towards Strengthening the Environmental Democracy” (JSPS Grant-in-Aid), OSAKAUNIVERSITY, PROJECT TIGER “Policy decision-making and public participation on energy, chemicals and water management: an
international comparative study” (Global Initiative Program), and MITSUI & CO., LTD., ENVIRONMENT FUND – Project “Proposing an
Asian Version of the Aarhus Convention – Constitution of an International Cooperation for Implementing the EnvironmentalJustice”

Monday, March 9, 2015 10:00 - 17:00
10:00 – 10:15

10:15 - 13:30
10:15 - 10:40

10:40 - 11:05

11:05 - 11:30

Opening Speeches
Yutaka Takenaka (Dean, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University - Japan)
Shun'ichi Teranishi (President, Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies; Director-General, Japan
Environmental Council/Specially Appointed Professor; Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Economics - Japan)
Session I
International Indicators on the Principle 10
Moderators: Yayoi Isono (Professor / Dean, Tokyo Keizai University, Faculty of Contemporary Law - Japan) &Kota Fukui (Professor, Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics - Japan)
Report 1: Noriko Okubo (Professor / Research Representative, Osaka University, Graduate Schoolof Law and Politics - Japan)
Bali Guidelines and Asia
Report 2: Jan Darpö (Professor, Uppsala University, Faculty of Law; Chairman, UNECEs Task
Force on Access to Justice under the Aarhus Convention - Sweden)
Access to Justice in Environmental Decision-making in the Member States of European
Union – National Peculiarities and Common Tendencies
Report 3: Tatiana Barreto Serra (Public Prosecutor, São Paulo State Public Prosecution Office - Brazil)
Public Civil Action: Access to Environmental Justice in Brazil

11:30 - 11:50

Coffee Break

11:50 - 12:15

Report 4: Jesse Worker (Associate, The Access Initiative (TAI), World Resources Institute - USA)
Measuring procedural rights through the UNEP Bali Guidelines and the Environmental
Democracy IndexReport 5: Yukari Takamura (Professor, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies - Japan)
What Could We Learn from UN Human Rights Indicators?
Q&A Session

12:15 - 12:40
12:40 - 13:30

Lunch Seminar (14:00-14:40)

Japan Launch of EDI: EDI’s Overview and Implementation
13:30 – 15:00

Opening Speech: Yuko Nakashita (Lawyer / Secretary-General of Aarhus Net Japan - Japan)
Moderator: Kenji Fukuda (Lawyer / Aarhus Net Japan / Assistant, Waseda University, Law Faculty - Japan)

Jesse Worker (Associate, the Access Initiative (TAI), World Resources Institute - USA)
Masami Kittaka (Lawyer / Aarhus Net Japan - Japan)

15:00 - 17:00

Session II
Environmental Impact Assessment and Principle 10
Moderators: Tadashi Otsuka (Professor, Waseda University, Law School- Japan) & Yukari Takamura (Professor, Nagoya
University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies - Japan)

15:00 - 15:25

15:25 - 15:50
15:50 - 16:15

16:15 - 17:00

17:30 – 19:30

Report 6: Ken-ichiro Yanagi (Professor, Meiji University, Graduate School of Law – Japan)
Environmental Impact Assessment Act in Japan: Until now and from now on-Tokyo’sExperience and MOE’s InitiativeReport 7: Ritwick Dutta (Environment Lawyer, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment – India)
EIA and Public Participation in India: Focusing on Energy Issues (Provisional)
Report 8: Michel Prieur (Emeritus Professor, University of Limoges, Scientific Director, Center forInterdisciplinary Research on Environmental, Development and Urban Planning Law (CRIDEAU); President of
the International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law (CIDCE) - France)
Modifications of the EIA process in Europe and in France
Q&A Session

Group Picture / Reception (Sora - Osaka University Cafeteria)

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:00 - 18:00
10:00 – 12:00

Session IIIDevelopments of the Environmental Democracy in China
Moderator: Kenji Otsuka (Senior Research Fellow, Environment and Natural Resource Studies Group, Inter-Disciplinary
Studies Center, IDE-JETRO - Japan)

10:00 - 10:25

10:25 – 11:15

11:15 – 12:00

Report 9: Wang Jin (Professor, Peking University, Law School – China)
Significance of China’s Newly-revised Environmental Protection Law in 2014 and theProvisions Pertinent to Public Participation
Report 10: Wang Canfa (Professor, China University of Political Science and Law; Director, Centerfor Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV) - China)
Practice of the Environmental Public Interest Litigation and the New National
Environmental Protection Law in China
Q&A Session

12:00 – 13:30

Group Picture / Lunch

13:30 – 16:30

Session IV
Developments of Principle 10 in Asia
Moderators: Hidetoshi Yamashita (Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Economics - Japan) &Soichiro Minami (Researcher, Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics - Japan)
Report 11: Yayoi Isono (Professor / Dean, Tokyo Keizai University, Faculty of Contemporary Law - Japan)
Current Situation of the Principle 10 Land use and Dam
Report 12: Laode Muhamad Syarif (Senior Lecturer, Hasanuddin University, Law School - Indonesia)
Public Participation and Freedom of Information in Environmental Decision Making
Report 13: Gloria Estenzo Ramos (Vice President, Oceana Philippines International – Philippines)
The Right to Public Participation in Decision-making in the Implementation of Fisheries andother Environmental Laws and their Amendments in the Philippines
Report 14: Suntariya Muanpawong (Secretary of the Environment Division, Supreme Court ofThailand; Chief Judge, Research Justice Division - Thailand)
Principle 10 in Thailand: Developments and Challenges
Report 15: Ritwick Dutta (Environment Lawyer, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment – India)
Implementation of Principle 10 in India: Issues and Challenges

13:30 – 13:55
13:55 - 14:20
14:20 – 14:45

14:45 – 15:10

15:10 – 15:35
15:35 – 15:50
15:50 – 16:30
16:30 – 18:00

Coffee BreakQ&A Session
Session VGeneral Discussion
Moderators: Noriko Okubo (Professor / Research Representative, Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics Japan) & Kenji Fukuda (Lawyer / Aarhus Net Japan / Assistant, Waseda University, Law Faculty - Japan)