The Asian Development Bank Hosts Asia and the Pacific Judicial Colloquium on Climate Change: Using Constitutions to Advance Environmental Rights and Achieve Climate Justice

Senior judges from across Asia and the Pacific and other legal stakeholders (i.e., government, prosecutors, civil society and academicians) in this judicial colloquium discussed the role of the judiciary in advancing environmental rights and climate justice. The objective of the colloquium is to assist and build capacity of judges in Asia Pacific in applying environmental constitutionalism to achieve climate justice and advance human dignity.

This event was co-sponsored by and organized in partnership with Punjab Judicial Academy, United Nations Environment Programme, Asian Development Bank, Asian Judges Network on Environment, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, World Commission on Environmental Law, Global Judicial Institute on the Environment, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, and the Widener University Delaware Law School (USA).