Starting in 1983, PIELC has grown to become the world’s most important environmental law conference, reaching more than 3,000 activists, attorneys, students, scientists, and concerned citizens from over 50 countries around the globe. Provided below are previous PIELC conference information and materials. (Please note: prior to 2007, we have only included the Conference Brochure PDF. Some of these PDF files are quite large and will take a minute to load.)
Explore and experience our past by clicking a year below:
- 2019 – Common Ground
- 2018 – Local Character, Global Vision
- 2017 – One Cause, One Voice
- 2016 – A Legacy Worth Leaving
- 2015 – Changing Currents
- 2014 – Running Into, Running Out
- 2013 – EARTH: Too Big To Fail
- 2012 – New Frontier: The Political Crossroads of Our Environmental Future
- 2011 – Turning the Tides
- 2010 – Recover • Renew • Reimagine
- 2009 – Solidarity! United Action for the Greener Good
- 2008 – Compelling a Climate of Change
- 2007 – Cultivating Corridors for the People
- 2006 – Toward a Global Public Trust
- 2005 – Living as if Nature Mattered
- 2004 – Rousing the Restless Majority
- 2003 – Environmental (In)justice in the Global Village
- 2002 – Global CPR
- 2001 – Keep the Issues Alive
- 2000 – Six Billion Downstream
- 1999 – Fierce Green Fire
- 1998 – Activists and Advocates Demanding Accountability
- 1997 – Uniting to Realize a Common Future
- 1996 – Contract with the Earth
- 1995 – Ideas to Action
- 1994 – Raising Our Voices for the Earth
- 1993 – Indigenous People: Sacred Roots, Sacred Ties
- 1992 – Environmental Alternatives: Grassroots to Global
- 1991 – Global Environmental Responsibility – Sharing Practices and Philosophies
- 1990 – Grassroots Strategies for Our Global Future
- 1989 – Seventh Annual
- 1988 – Environmental Law: Looking to the Future
- 1987 – Citizen Enforcement of Environmental and Natural Resources Laws
- 1986 – New Strategies For Protecting Natural Resources
- 1985 – Tactics, Issues and Networking
- 1984 – Second Annual
- 1983 – First Western Public Interest Law Conference