New Common Charter supporter profile: Environmental Justice Network Ireland

EJNI is a non-profit platform promoting strategic collaboration between researchers, civil society, lawyers and communities to address the root causes of environmental and social injustice on the island of Ireland and beyond.

It provides thought leadership, strategic communications and advocacy at both national level in Ireland and Northern Ireland and at EU level on a range of issues including cross-border cooperation on the environment, environmental democracy, environmental rights and strategic environmental legal work.

EJNI’s recent work includes:

• A new report on ‘Monitoring post-Brexit environmental divergence on the island of Ireland: The role of civil society’ commissioned by the Irish Environmental Network and Northern Ireland Environment Link
• Mapping of Just Transition legal obligations and initiatives across the island of Ireland in two comprehensive reports
• An independent research report ‘The Environment, Human Rights and the Windsor Framework’ commissioned by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.

Read the profile piece in our August Border-Zine.

The New Common Charter for Cooperation aims to empower civic society to drive cooperation, North-South and East-West, by

• increasing opportunities to share information, knowledge of policy and best-practice within and across these islands
• improving policy-making by matching it to realities on the ground
• identifying cross-border opportunities to collaborate to solve shared problems or exploit common resources
• engaging with and supporting human rights, particularly for the most isolated and marginalised in our communities, and
• facilitating the exploration and celebration of a community’s culture and heritage with a view to future cooperation.

The Charter may be able to help your group – find out about the membership benefits here.

Photographs: Environmental Justice Network Ireland research launches, projects, and events