Mobilizing Private Climate Finance and Investments

• Modernizing legal frameworks to attract private climate finance
• Addressing legal barriers to climate investments for better risk management and decision-making processes
• Increasing the capacity of private sector on climate risks and opportunities
• Increasing knowledge about different types of carbon markets, fundamental building blocks and other crucial issues
• Creating robust voluntary carbon markets through the development of a carbon legislative options framework and implementation guidelines 
   

Strengthening Climate and Environmental Legal Education

• Mainstreaming climate change and environmental legal education at the national and institutional levels across Asia and the Pacific
• Developing model syllabi and innovative teaching methodologies for teaching climate change and environmental laws
• Strengthening the capacity and networks of climate and environmental legal educators and institutions
• Producing e-learning courses and supporting hybrid and online education

Drafting Transformative Climate Change and Disaster Management Laws 

• Framework climate change law applying to the whole of economy and providing clear policy direction and net zero targets and setting out clear governance arrangements
• Disaster management law setting out coordination mechanisms among national and sub-national entities involved in disaster response and recovery efforts
• Sectoral laws and regulations, for example, in energy, transportation and building

Supporting Green Courts and Benches and Judicial Networks

• Establishing and operationalizing green courts and benches and drafting environmental rules of procedures
• Creating judicial certification programs on climate change and environmental laws
• Supporting the Asia and the Pacific Judges Network on the Environment and Global Judicial Institute on the Environment