Raising the Bar in Honduras

More than 100 lawyers, students, and community leaders in Honduras joined high government officials at a July 8 conference in Tegucigalpa, co-hosted by the Environmental Law Institute of Honduras (IDAMHO) and the Honduran Bar Association.

The conference explored the environmental challenges facing Honduras and how public interest environmental lawyers can ensure that large-scale investments bring sustainable development. ELAW partner Pablo Fajardo inspired participants with a description of his unprecedented lawsuit against Chevron for contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. ELAW Director David Hunter, from American University’s Washington College of Law, shared lessons learned from BP’s tragic Gulf oil spill. ELAW helped launch IDAMHO and is supporting their efforts to attract more lawyers to work on behalf of disadvantaged communities.