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Bar Council Environment and Climate Change Committee | Two-Part Workshop on the Law on Environmental Impact Assessments – Basics for Lawyers
Join us for a two-part workshop on on Environmental Impact Assessments (“EIAs”)! Get to know what an EIA report is, why it is important for affected and impacted communities to take an active part during the public participation process, and how you can file a challenge against the approval of an EIA report.
EIA FOR BEGINNERS – Part 1
- What is an Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”)?
- What are the corresponding laws on EIAs?
- What is in an EIA report?
- How do you take part in a public participation process?
Speaker
EIA FOR BEGINNERS – Part 1
(1) Theivanai Amarthalingam
Theivanai Lingam is a public interest environmental lawyer with more than 27 years of experience. Her main areas of practice are litigation and legal advisory in a variety of areas including environmental law, forestry law, consumer law, seed law, town and country planning, fisheries, defamation, and matters pertaining to wildlife conservation, farmers rights and indigenous land and customary rights. She also regularly attends consultations with various governmental authorities on drafting and amendments of laws and policies in the areas she works on.
(2) Arhwin Kalai Chelvan
Arhwin Kalai Chelvan is a policy and legal analyst with World Wide Fund (“WWF”) Malaysia Malaysia where he supports the Peninsular Malaysia Terrestrial Conservation and the policy and climate change teams within WWF Malaysia. He often represents WWF Malaysia in the Technical Review Committees of EIAs chaired by the Department of Environment.
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