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ADB Hosts Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI) Drafting Committee Meeting and Philippines Multi-Stakeholder Consultations
The Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI) is a novel effort to provide countries across the globe with a comprehensive and innovative blueprint for legislators, policymakers, and other stakeholders for the protection, conservation, restoration, and ecologically sustainable management of forests.
ADB General Counsel Wins Climate Law & Governance Global Leadership Award
On 5 December 2023, General Counsel Thomas M. Clark was awarded the prestigious Climate Law & Governance Global Leadership Award during the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai. The award recognizes the General Counsel's outstanding contributions to rapidly innovating legal instruments to mobilize financial flows towards a just transition.
ADB Launches Judicial Trainings on Environmental and Climate Laws in Cambodia
On 25 September 2023, ADB launched its judicial capacity building program on environmental and climate laws, in coordination with the Cambodia Resident Mission. Prosecutors, judges, and student judges from provinces facing environmental challenges across the country convened at the Royal Academy of Justice Cambodia (RAJC) in Phnom Penh.
ADB Presents at World Law Congress on Environmental and Climate Change Rule of Law
ADB shares transformative work on environmental and climate change rule of law at the World Law Congress organized by the World Jurist Association.
ADB Spearheads the Model Forest Act Initiative
On 17-18 2023 July in New York, ADB convened the launch of the Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI) with the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, UN Environment Programme, UN Forum on Forests, UN Development Programme and the World Bank.
ADB Engages in Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Forests and Protected Areas Law and Science
On 27-29 April 2023 in Kathmandu, ADB convened the first-of-its-kind Regional Symposium on Forest and Protected Areas Legislation and Jurisprudence: Bridging Law and Science which brought together judges, lawyers, policy makers, legislators, enforcement agencies, civil society, scientists and forestry experts to discuss forest protection and sustainable forest management based on a whole-of-the-planet approach and underpinned by science and technology.
ADB General Counsel Clark Meets with the Hon. Chief Justice of India, Discusses ADB’s Law and Policy Reform Program
On 2 March 2023, the Hon. Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, recently appointed as India’s 50th Chief Justice, met with General Counsel Thomas Clark during his visit to New Delhi.
ADB Presents at Oslo International Environmental Law Conference
ADB General Counsel Thomas Clark, ADB Law and Policy Program team, and leading Asian judges and academics were invited to the Oslo International Environmental Law Conference to showcase significant innovations in jurisprudence and environmental law education in the Asia-Pacific region.
ADB Convened Global Environmental Leaders at Stockholm+50 Symposium
Thomas Clark, General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank addressed global environmental leaders on the need to strengthen the environmental rule of law to accelerate action in addressing the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution during the Symposium on Judges and the Environment at the Stockholm+50 Conference.
ADB Co-Organized Second ASEAN Environmental Law Conference
Over 4,500 participants attended the three-day conference covering 15 sessions on the myriad of environmental and social challenges facing the ASEAN region. The conference brought together development partners, civil society organizations, judges, academia, lawyers, private sector and other interested stakeholders from 66 countries to discuss legal, policy and community-based actions to transform principles of environmental law into practice.