The Importance of Military Organizations in Protecting the Climate: 2008
The European Commission  Defence Environmental Network, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Defense, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Institute for Defense Analyses, Ministries of Environment and Defence Ministries of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, UK, and others will meet in Paris in November to discuss how militaries worldwide are responding to threats of climate change and acting now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For more information, please see the event announcment and agenda overview.

Jump-Starting Climate Protection: INECE Targets Compliance with Laws Controlling Black Carbon
INECE is launching a program to protect the climate by strengthening compliance and enforcement with national policies and measures pursuant to Article 4 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that mitigate climate emissions and enhance carbon sinks. "INECE Targets Compliance with Laws Controlling Black Carbon," the first in a series of INECE Climate Compliance Alerts, focuses on black carbon, an aerosol component of soot.

8th International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement was held in South Africa
INECE held its 8th International Conference on 5-11 April 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. At the Conference more than 200 enforcement specialists from 60 countries gathered to share successful strategies from around the world and to devise new ways to ensure that all public and private actors are complying with environmental law. Please visit the Conference Web Site for more detailed information about the specific workshops and topics discussed.

Designing Effective Compliance Systems to Support Emissions Trading
INECE hosted a workshop on the elements necessary for cooperation among different emissions trading systems in Dublin, Ireland, on 8-9 March 2007. The workshop explored the shared responsibilities of regulatory, industrial, and financial communities to ensure compliance. The Proceedings, now available online, demonstrate the importance of establishing a standard language and set of procedural guidelines as soon as possible to guide compliance and simplify enforcement in current systems and to create a basis for formally linking trading systems in the future.

Improving Competitiveness Through Good Environmental Regulation
A statement by the Heads of Europe's Environment Agencies, agreed to in Prague, brings together an expanding international body of research to indicate that "good environmental management and regulation does not impede overall competitiveness and economic development."

INECE Secretariat Director Durwood Zaelke had the opportunity to discuss the Prague Statement with Barbara Young, the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency for England and Wales and a lead author of the publication. A short film of their conversation is available at http://inece.org/praguestatement/, along with a link to the full text of the Prague Statement and other background information.

INECE Publishes Groundbreaking Collection of Literature on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement
Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance & Sustainable Development is a compilation in two volumes of the best literature on topics related to environmental compliance and enforcement. The insights, concepts, and strategies contained in Making Law Work will empower actors of all types at all levels to take action to promote sustainable development, enforce compliance with environmental law, and make law work. Excerpts from Making Law Work are available on the Table of Contents page.