Resources
The Model Forest Act Initiative (MoFAI): A Global Partnership to Improve the Legal Protection of Forests
The MoFAI is a groundbreaking initiative to provide a comprehensive and innovative legal blueprint for legislators, policymakers, and other stakeholders in designing a modern legal framework for the protection, conservation, restoration, and ecologically sustainable management and use of forests.
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks with Examples from Select Countries and Dispute Resolution
The third and final workshop, entitled “Legal and Regulatory Frameworks with Examples from Select Countries and Dispute Resolution”, held on August 1 2025, and was designed to equip policymakers and other public sector stakeholders with an understanding of the
Legal Blueprint for Developing and Regulating Carbon Markets: Guidance for Law and Policymakers
The publication seeks to help governments foster an enabling legal and regulatory environment for carbon finance and private investment by promoting legal clarity for market participants, social and environmental integrity, and alignment with international standards.
Strengthening Legal Frameworks for Equitable and Sustainable Carbon Credit Implementation
The second workshop, entitled “Strengthening Legal Frameworks for Equitable and Sustainable Carbon Credit Implementation” was held on 3 July 2025 (Thursday), and designed to provide policymakers and other public sector stakeholders with the knowledge and practical tools needed to develop or strengthen national legal frameworks that ensure carbon market activities uphold social and environmental safeguards, respect indigenous and community rights through free, prior and informed consent, and deliver fair and transparent benefit sharing.
Interplay between Article 6 and Voluntary Carbon Markets
The first workshop, entitled “Interplay between Article 6 and Voluntary Carbon Markets”, was held on 28-29 May 2025 and was designed to equip policymakers and other public sector stakeholders with the knowledge and practical tools needed to understand the purpose and context of existing carbon markets, with a view to enabling the effective consideration of carbon market strategies vis-à-vis domestic requirements.
Climate Change and Biodiversity Legal and Policy Frameworks in Asia-Pacific Developing Countries
This resource provides a tabular analysis of legal and policy frameworks addressing the nexus between climate change and biodiversity among developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.
Regional Symposium on Forest and Protected Areas Legislation and Jurisprudence: Bridging Law and Science Post-Symposium Booklet
This Post-Symposium Booklet is based on the proceedings of the Regional Symposium on Forest and Protected Areas Legislation and Jurisprudence: Bridging Law and Science, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 27–29 April 2023.
“Have a Digital Highway but also Have Speed limits”: Exploring Public Resistance to Cell Tower Radiation in India
Public resistance to environmental and health safety risks from radiations emanating from cellphone towers has been sporadic but spatially and temporally widespread in India. Civic actions have been led by civic activists, resident welfare associations, gram panchayats, lawyers, scientists and even an actor from the Bombay film industry. Large scale technical systems like cell towers are remarkably resilient to public criticism. Industry response to such resistance is usually in the form of aesthetic tinkering to hide structures from public gaze, incremental regulation and science communication to assuage public doubt. The legislature, rather than Courts, has been more responsive to such civic actions.
Post-Symposium Booklet: Symposium on Judges and the Environment | The Impact of the Stockholm Declaration in Shaping Global Environmental Law and Jurisprudence
SYMPOSIUM ON JUDGES AND THE ENVIRONMENT: The Impact of the Stockholm Declaration in Shaping Global Environmental Law and Jurisprudence An Associated Event of the UN Stockholm+50 Conference last 31 May–1 June 2022
Asian Development Bank Sustainability Report 2020
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Sustainability Report 2020 provides detailed information on the economic, social, and environmental impacts of ADB’s operations, activities, and institutional practices for 2018 and 2019.