Benefit-sharing for an equitable transition to the green economy - the role of law (FP7-ERC Grant Agreement 335592)

The BeneLex project aims to investigate the conceptual and practical dimensions of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, including its role and limitations in ensuring fairness and equity in the identification and allocation among different stakeholders of the advantages arising from environmental protection, the sustainable use of natural resources, and the production of knowledge.

The BeneLex project seeks to better understand the progressive development of fair and equitable benefit-sharing obligations and modalities in different areas of international environmental law (biodiversity, food and agriculture, oceans, watercourses, climate change) and their intersection with international human rights law.

Equally, the BeneLex project attempts to identify challenges for indigenous peoples and local communities in fairly and equitably sharing benefits in different sectors and in different regions of the world, and the interface between local, national, regional and international law in this connection.

BeneLex  is funded by the European Commission’s FP7 Framework Programme (2007-2013) Call ERC-2013-StG Topic ERC-SG-SH2 - ERC Starting Grant - 'Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour' under Grant Agreement 335592.