As part of elbarlament’s Clean Tigris project in Iraq, Mohamed Almosly, a Researcher and PhD candidate at Ghent University, compiled a study on the legal and constitutional framework for environmental protection in Iraq.
The study identifies (1) the shared responsibility of different levels of governance to protect the environment and the need for permanent institutional cooperation; (2) the lack of legislation on marshes and wetlands, as identified by the Federal Ministry of the Environment; (3) the need for a new law to regulate the merging of the Ministries of Health and the Environment; (4) the need for technical and financial support for environmental policing, and lastly (5) the need to assess the compatibility of Iraqi law and international environmental treaties.
This study, which can be accessed in English and Arabic, was conducted in the framework of the project “Clean Tigris”. The project is implemented by elbarlament and supported with German Federal Foreign Office’s funds through ifa’s (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) funding Programme ‘zivik’