Law and Policy Database

The Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) communicates that Singapore intends to reduce its Emissions Intensity by 36% from 2005 levels by 2030, and stabilize its emissions with the aim of peaking around 2030. Thus, its greenhouse gas emission is projected to be 0.113 kgCO2e/S$ in 2030. The INDC also sets out Singapore's longstanding and future actions to increase resilience.

The Framework provides a basis for integrating nature conservation into sectoral development, guide the various ministries in sectoral strategy-based planning processes and evaluate nature sensitivity of the programmes prepared by the thematic and sectoral ministries.

The National Climate Change Master Plan of Thailand presents a roadmap to a sustainable low carbon growth and climate change resilience. The Master Plan identifies four missions, and divides its goals into three phases - short, medium and long term - to be respectively achieved by 2016, 2020 and 2050.

The law aims to regulate disaster management in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Its goals are prevention, adaptation and mitigation in the pre-disaster period, due to natural or human-made cause, emergency response during the disaster and recovery in the post-disaster period.

The Thailand Power Development Plan 2015-2036 (PDP2015) focuses on the following: 1. Energy Security: dealing with an increase in power demand taking into account fuel diversification to lessen the dependency of one particular fuel 2. Economy: maintaining an appropriate cost of power generation and implementing energy efficiency 3. Ecology: reducing environmental and social impacts by lessening carbon dioxide intensity of power generation.

The First Nationally Determined Contributions of the People's Republic of China (PRC) submits its nationally determined actions by 2030. The submitted actions are enhanced actions based on the 2020 targets which PRC voluntarily announced in 2009.

The Circular provides the guidelines for the policy of maintaining the share of renewable energy (RE) in the country. It provides that to maintain the share of RE in power generation, the Department of Energy (DOE) adopts a policy of having at least 30% share of RE in the country's total power generation capacity through the wholistic implementation of the Feed-In Tariff System and the RE Act and RE implementing Rules and Regulations.

The Philippine Green Building Code declares the State policy to protect and advance the right of the people to a balanced and healthful ecology. The Code seeks to improve the efficiency of building performance through a framework of acceptable set of standards that will enhance sound environmental and resource management that will counter the harmful gases responsible for the adverse effects of climate change.

Petitioner West Tower Condominium Corporation filed a petition for a Writ of Kalikasan on behalf of the residents of the condominium and in representation of Barangay Bangkal, including minors and generations yet unborn, against Respondent following the leak in the oil pipeline owned by Respondent in Makati City.

The Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression addresses the use of encryption and anonymity in digital communications. It notes that encryption and anonymity provide individuals and groups with a zone of privacy online to hold opinions and exercise freedom of expression without arbitrary and unlawful interference or attacks. The report concludes that encryption and anonymity enable individuals to exercise their rights to freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age and, as such deserve strong protection.