Law and Policy Database

The Climate Change (Management) Act of Papua New Guinea (PNG) provides a regulatory framework to promote and manage climate compatible development through climate change mitigation and adaptation activities. The Act also provides for the implementation of relevant obligations of PNG under applicable rules of international law and international agreements related to climate change, including reportorial obligations. It establishes the Climate Change and Development Authority, which shall be PNG's Designated National Authority for the purposes of the Kyoto Protocol and any such other or subsequent arrangements or agreements made under the Kyoto Protocol.

The Intended Nationally Determined Contribution of Nauru is focused primarily on adaptation, with a strong emphasis on building resilience which also encompasses mitigation in an integrated manner. Among the improvements for this purpose is to transition to untapped clean energy sources. On the other hand, the key mitigation strategy is to substitute a substantial part of the existing diesel generation with a large scale grid connected solar photovoltaic system which would assist in reducing the emissions from fossil fuel.

The case involved the division of property inherited by six daughters and one son from their father. The son instituted a suit for declaration that the land owned by the deceased had orally been gifted out to him by his deceased father in his lifetime, which was granted by the Judicial Officer. The Lahore High Court reversed the decision, and even castigated the Judicial Officer who denied the daughters' rightful shares in favor of the son.

The Act establishes the microfinance non-government organizations which is mandated to foster local enterprise development and social entrepreneurship by providing microfinance programs, products and services, including microfinance, microinsurance, microenterprise development, health care and micro-housing.

Palau, in its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, committed to an absolute energy sector emissions target of 22% below 2005 levels by 2025. It also targets 45% renewable energy product on by 2025 and 35% energy efficiency within the same period.

The Act established the Securities Commission of Papua New Guinea which is mandated to regulate the capital markets, as well as the practices relating to the offer of securities and derivatives to the public.

According to its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), Thailand intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% from the projected business as usual level by 2030. In terms of adaptation, the INDC identified three highly impacted sectors in urgent need of adaptation technologies, namely agriculture, water reserve management and modeling (weather research and modeling, agricultural and water resource management modeling).

The revised National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) is an update to the 2012 NBSAP. It considers new data and information to set targets that preserve the irreplaceable species and habitats and influence decisions across multiple sectors that impact biodiversity conservation. As an update to the 2012 version, the current NBSAP uses the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets to structure the analysis.

The Disaster Management Strategy, broadly categorized the strategies under the two (2) dimensions of: (1) Disaster Risk Reduction; and (2) Response, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation, addresses the concerns for risk management before the occurrence of disaster and crisis management during and after the disaster. The proposed Disaster Management strategies for disaster and drought preparedness, relief, recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation include: disaster preparedness; post-disaster relief, recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation; drought preparedness, mitigation, and rehabilitation.

In its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, Lao People’s Democratic Republic identified a number of actions which it intends to undertake in order reduce its future greenhouse gas emissions, subject to the provision of international support. These include increasing forest cover to 70% of land area (i.e. to 16.58 million hectares) by 2020 and increasing the share of renewable energy to 30% of energy consumption by 2025, among others. Intended adaptation measures include increasing resilience of key economic sectors and natural resources to climate change and its impacts and enhancing cooperation, strong alliances and partnerships with national stakeholders and international partners to achieve national development goals.