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The 12th Conference on the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention
The 12th Conference on the Implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention took place in Strasbourg on 29-30 October. The event affirmed the importance of contributing to the Reykjavík Process and the environment and of strengthening the connection with human rights, making landscape...
20 October: International Landscape Day
The Florence Convention at the heart of the Council of Europe's work on Environment: the contribution of landscape to the realisation of human rights. International Landscape Day is celebrated on 20 October, the date on which, in 2000, the Council of Europe Landscape Convention was opened for...
Landscape quality is good for health: experts meet to finalise a new report and propose recommendations based on the Council of Europe Landscape Convention
On 9 September 2024, the Secretariat of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention organised an online working group meeting of experts to review the preliminary draft Recommendation and the draft report on Landscape and Health. The draft Committee of Ministers (CM) Recommendation and the...
The Council of Europe Landscape Convention relaunched following the 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe
At the 4th Council of Europe Summit (Reykjavík, 16-17 May 2023), the Heads of State and Government, in their final declaration - the Reykjavík Declaration - United around our values - affirmed that human rights and the environment are intertwined and that a clean, healthy and sustainable...
8th Session Landscape Award of the Council of Europe - meeting of the International Jury: Strasbourg, 14-15 May 2024
The International Jury set up for the 8th Session of the Council of Europe Landscape Award met in Strasbourg, at the Palais de l'Europe, on 14 and 15 May 2024. The Jury was made up of a representative of the Council of Europe's Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP), a...
12th Conference on the Council of Europe Landscape Convention: Strasbourg, 29-30 October 2024
In the light of the priorities established by the Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe at their 4th Summit, held in Reykjavík on 16 and 17 May 2023, the 12th Conference on the Convention will enable the representatives of the States Parties to strengthen their co-operation in...
"Message from Strasbourg”: Landscape and health
Sixth International Landscape Day of the Council of Europe, 20 October 2022
The “Message from Strasbourg”: Landscape and health, invites the competent public authorities and territorial actors to consider: the importance of the landscape at global level as an essential component of human being’s surroundings. Preamble of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention (ETS...
Landscape education activities for primary schools: Pedagogical booklet
The Council of Europe Landscape Convention provides that its Parties undertake to promote school education addressing, in the relevant subject areas, the values attached to the landscape and the issues raised by its protection, management and planning. Intended for primary school teachers, the...
Presentation of the pedagogical booklet Landscape education activities for primary schools, in Armenian
National Conference on the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention in Armenia "Landscape Convention for kids"
The National Conference on the implementation of the Council of Europe Landscape Convention in Armenia “Landscape Convention for kids – Presentation of the pedagogical booklet Landscape education activities for primary schools (Armenian version), and training”, is organised on 8-10 June 2022 by...
Forum of the National Selections of the 7th Session of the Council of Europe Landscape Award
26th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention
The Forum of the National Selections of the 7th Session of the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe was organised in Bergamo, Italy, on 28-29 April 2022, by the Council of Europe – Secretariat of the Convention, Directorate of Democratic Participation – in co-operation with the Ministry of...
- Reykjavik Declaration - United around our Values - Appendix 5 - The Council of Europe and the Environment
- Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP)
- Bern Convention - Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats
- European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement
- Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law
- Voluntary Contributions at the Council of Europe
- Protecting the environment using human rights law
- Council of Europe Contribution to the United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals
- European Union and the Environment
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