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Protection of the environment relies upon theeffective application of existing environmental law at international, national,regional and local level. The application of this law involves a complex legalprocess involving many parties; administration and regulatory bodies, economicstakeholders, legal professions, scientific experts, environmental protectionagencies. Yet environmental law is too often insufficiently enforced on the ground.How do we know this, and what is the remedy? The answer lies in legalindicators. The Normandy Chair for Peace is working on theissue of Future Generational law together with the scientific support of theInternational Centre for Comparative Environmental Law (CIDCE), aninternational NGO and official partner of the United Nations, and the Société Ingénierie et Conseil de NouvelleAquitaine (Engineering and Consultancy Firm in the NouvelleAquitaine region). Together they are carrying outoperational research to provide regions, states and the UN with a new tool toevaluate public policies.From March to June 2020 a group of fourteenexperts met together by videoconference on six occasions to discuss the methodology to be used in testing thelegal indicators. The group was made up of five experts from Brazil, as well asothers from Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Tunisia,The 2020 test will focus on two key examples: aspecific area that is protected at national level[1] and the sustainable development goal thatfocuses on aquatic life and the oceans (SDG 14). The aim is to createappropriate indicators to assess the law that can be applied at international, national and &#160;regional level. The following countries were included:Brazil, France (Normandy region), Portugal and Tunisia. A questionnaire will besent to local and national representatives that regularly apply the law thatrelates to these two examples. A publication covering legal indicators is underway and will be published in French, English and Spanish. In 2021, the programme will continue to addressother areas of environmental law and the SDGs, in order to work towards guaranteeing human rights and the rights offuture generations. Specific attention will be given to the legalindicators that can be applied to implement both the Barcelona Convention forthe Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of theMediterranean, as well as the Escazú Agreement on Access to Information, PublicParticipation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and theCaribbean.The ultimate aim ofthe programme is to obtain United Nations endorsement of an ad hoc set of legalindicators applicable in particular to those SDGs that relate to theenvironment and to the rights of future generations.[1] Brazil: Carijos Federal Ecological Reserve inFlorianopolis; France: Cerisy Forest National Reserve (Normandy); Portugal:Ramsar Nature Reserve and Natura 2000 Paul de Arzila (Arzila Bog); Tunisia: Ichkeul National Park.