Discussions about how the public interacts with environmental information in the context of environmental governance issues primarily focus on the state's provision of environmental information to the public. However, this focus downplays the importance of environmental information held by members of the public and the difficulties individuals may face when providing such environmental information to the state outside of formal environmental decision-making procedures. The benefits of ensuring the public's right to provide environmental information are examined before considering the extent to which environmental law, particularly the Aarhus Convention, supports it. Furthermore, establishing this right to implement the proposed right, determining how to balance the proposed right with the state's needs, and identifying the differences between this hypothetical system and the current environmental information system provided for in the Aarhus Convention are discussed. In this research, we relied on the descriptive approach, to give the reader a clear picture of the concept of modern means, the right to obtain environmental information, in addition to the legal approach by stating the role of international and national legislation in providing freedom of the right to obtain information, in addition to the important role of the Aarhus Convention of 1998, in consecrating this right, and we also relied on the analytical approach by analyzing and evaluating the role of the international community in protecting the environment.
Sabah et al. (Sun,) studied this question.