ADB Hosts Viet Nam In-Country Training for Environmental Law Students
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Viet Nam Justice Ministry's International Cooperation Department Deputy Head Nguyen Thien Huong, host institution Hanoi Law University Vice Rector Vu Thi Lan Anh, opened the second In Country Train-the-Trainers (TTT) training workshop which involved 20 law schools from across Viet Nam.
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Manila, Philippines: First Regional Training
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The first regional Train-the-Trainers (TTT) program at ADB headquarters comprised of university professors and lecturers from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, and Sri Lanka was delivered using various teaching methodologies, including lectures, case studies, role playing, small group interactions, guest lecturers, multi-media materials and on-the-ferry class room instruction down Pasig River to demonstrate the field trip as a teaching methodology and to discuss the local environmental issues. Environmental lawyer and activist Tony Oposa was invited as a special guest speaker.
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ADB Hosts Second Regional Roundtable of Asian Environmental Law Champions - Cebu, Philippines
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Participants and trainers from Developing Climate and Environmental Law Champions gathered to reinforce and implement learnings and commitments from the Train-The-Trainers Program.
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UNIDROIT Knowledge Sharing Event
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A high-level delegation from the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) visited ADB headquarters and a special session was held with ADB staff to shed light on important international private law developments relating to private sector development, trade and sustainable development. In particular, the UNIDROIT experts covered legal instruments that can help increase access to credit especially in the agriculture sector and discuss the emergence of digital assets and their implications. ADB and UNIDROIT considered the prospects for these legal instruments in the Asia and the Pacific context and explored collaboration opportunities.
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Kathmandu, Nepal In-Country Training
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Law professionals representing institutions from Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan were trained at the 9th In-Country Train-the-Trainers (TTT) workshop.
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Futures of Environmental Law Teaching in Asia and the Pacific
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As a culminating event under the current phase of ADB’s Developing Environmental Law Champions Program, this Regional Roundtable will be held to do a stock-take of environmental legal education in the Asia and the Pacific including an assessment of ADB’s Developing Environmental Law Champions Program. Furthermore, it will be an opportunity to collectively consider the preferred future of environmental law teaching.
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Myanmar Environmental Law Curriculum Launch
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Online launch of the project for the Technical Assistance for Environmental Law Curriculum Development for Myanmar Universities.
TTT Country Focal Points Virtual Meeting
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ADB’s TTT Country Focal Points (CFPs) comprising senior professors from 12 countries across Asia convened on 25 October for a 3rd Virtual Roundtable to discuss developments around environmental and climate change laws and legal education. They shared their efforts to safeguard environmental laws as their countries recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, including actions against increased plastic pollution, and projects posing large-scale deforestation and disaster-risks.
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Philippine Legal Education Board 2nd Environmental Law Faculty Training
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In 2021, upon the request of the LEB, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the United
Nations Environment Programme, and the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, supported
a 12-week capacity development program for more than 100 legal educators from across the
Philippines. This Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program ran from
September 22 to December 8, 2021, and covered curriculum development and best practice
in environmental and climate change law teaching.
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Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program: Role of Courts in addressing Environmental Protection in the Philippines
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This is the seventh session in the Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program that ran from September to December 2021 and was hosted by the Republic of the Philippines Legal Education Board in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (IUCNAEL) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).