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ADB Partnered with Philippines Legal Education Board on Environmental Law Curriculum Development and Capacity Building
ADB's General Counsel Thomas Clark opened the 22 September 2021 launch of the Philippine Environmental Law Teachers Training Program which supported the Legal Education Board’s recent reform initiative providing for mandatory teaching of environmental law.
ADB Conducted Consultations with the Royal Academy of Judicial Professions on Developing Capacity Building Programs for Judges
ADB's Law and Policy Reform Team met with authorities from Cambodia's Royal Academy of Judicial Professions (RJAP) to discuss capacity building of new and senior judges on commercial, environmental and climate change disputes.
ADB Discussed Collaboration on Judicial Capacity Building with the Council of ASEAN Chief Justices
On 16 September 2021, ADB's Law and Policy Reform Program team gave a presentation to the Judicial Education and Training Working Group of the Council of ASEAN Chief Justices on opportunities for collaboration in key areas of law.
ADB Assists the Lao People's Democratic Republic in Drafting Disaster Management and Climate Change Laws
Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) is a landlocked country with unique geographical regions and conditions resulting in a high risk from natural disasters including floods, droughts, storms, and landslides. The country relies on natural resources and agricultural production with limited disaster prevention, preparedness, and response mechanisms. Climate change further exacerbates these risks across the nation.
ADB Office of the General Counsel’s Law and Policy Reform Program Convened Virtual Roundtable for Asian Environmental Law Champions
Senior professors and lawyers from across Asia discussed their efforts to bolster environmental legal education and laws as their countries emerged from the COVID pandemic.
Climate Change and the Rights of a Child
Youth climate activists globally have ramped up climate litigation to protect their future. On 11 June 2021, the Human Rights and Climate Change Symposium hosted a panel discussion on Climate Change and the Rights of a Child.
The Asian Development Bank Hosts The Asia Pacific Judicial Conference on Climate Change: Adjudication in the Time of Covid-19
The emergence of COVID-19 has brought major challenges to all peoples of the world in unexpected ways. Many point to our unabated abuse of nature as the underlying cause of this pandemic. It has amplified numerous existing challenges such as weak health institutions and lack of social protection for the most vulnerable.
The Asian Development Bank Hosts the workshop on Climate Change and Its Impact on Vulnerable Groups: Voices of the Child - Advancing Climate Justice in the Pacific
The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Law and Policy Reform Team organized a capacity-building workshop for judges and climate activists during the 84th Extraordinary Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Samoa on 6 March 2020. Challenges and opportunities in climate litigation involving vulnerable groups, like women and children were discussed.
The Asian Development Bank Hosts Asia and the Pacific Judicial Conference on Climate Change Adjudication: Trends and Impacts
The Supreme Court of Fiji, in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Environment Programme, co-hosted the Asia and the Pacific Judicial Conference on Environmental and Climate Change Adjudication (Conference) on 7-8 October 2019, in Nadi, Fiji under the banner of the Asian Judges Network on Environment (AJNE), the unique judicial association working towards strengthening environmental and climate change a
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.