By Dena Adler, Hillary Aidun, Michael Burger, Ama Francis, Briony Eales, Maria Cecilia T. Sicangco
National legal and policy frameworks underpin international climate action because they are the backbone of domestic responses to the climate emergency. Unless they support global objectives, local climate action stalls. Concerned by sluggish national responses to climate change or injured by its affects, citizens are filing lawsuits, making courts central to national climate governance. To adjudicate these lawsuits, courts require current information about their climate change legal and policy frameworks.
Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Trends in Climate Laws and Policies in Asia and the Pacific
- Comparative Constitutional Survey
- South Asia Legal Frameworks
- Southeast Asia and People's Republic of China’s Legal Frameworks
- The Pacific Countries Legal Frameworks
- Conclusion
Read the report Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You – Report Three: National Climate Change Legal Frameworks in Asia and the Pacific in Columbia Law School's Scholarship Archive.