The Legal Framework
The government of Nepal has endorsed Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration including
Principle 10, as well as the Plan of Implementation of the World Submit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD). Nepal is also a party to several multilateral and
international environmental agreements that directly or indirectly ensure access rights.
The main acts relating to this study are the Interim Constitution of 2007, the Right to
Information Act of 2007 and the Environment Protection Act of 1997. The Interim
Constitution addresses all the three Access Principles. Additional laws in particular
sectors – also have significant bearing on access principles, for example: