Our mission
GNLEC connects and strengthens clinics across regions to share knowledge, build and expand capacities, and activate transnational collaborative legal responses to environmental and climate challenges.
Who we are
A transnational platform for clinical legal collaboration
GNLEC connects and strengthens environmental law clinics across regions to share knowledge, expand capacities and activate collaborative legal responses to environmental and climate challenges.
Mission and vision
Learning together, acting across borders
Our vision
A platform for transnational legal collaboration that advances clinical education and activates transformative legal actions in the service of environmental and climate justice.
Our principles
Values that guide the network
Situated environmental justice
We advance environmental justice with communities, recognizing territorial realities, diverse knowledge systems, and the rights of people, nature and future generations.
Transformative, intergenerational education
Clinics are spaces for experiential learning, critical reflection and social transformation across generations.
Horizontal collaboration and solidarity
We build relationships on mutual respect, trust, reciprocity and shared learning across regions.
Connect with the network
GNLEC brings together clinics, educators and students committed to environmental and climate justice.