Resources
Policy Guidance Brief 1: Climate-smart Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock for Food Security, 2017 (Myanmar)
The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. Climate change has already challenged the agriculture sector in Myanmar by affecting rice yields and livestock production. There is an urgent need of further action to promote sustainable agriculture by adapting crop varieties and corresponding farming practices, improving water management especially in rice production, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rice and livestock farming, promoting integrated farming systems and enhancing the capacity of farmers to respond to climate risks.
Policy Guidance Brief 2: Sustainable Management of Natural Resources for Healthy Ecosystems
The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. The protection and rehabilitation of natural resources of Myanmar are the keys to minimize climate risk.
Policy Guidance Brief 3: Resilient and Low-Carbon Energy, Transport and Industrial Systems for Sustainable Growth, 2017 (Myanmar)
The Guidance Brief is a tool to effectively address climate change in Myanmar by aiding the understanding of key sectoral challenges, strategic objectives and specific actions. Limited access to electricity in the country translates to a greater risk to energy connectivity across the country in the face of climate change.
Ecocide as a New International Crime
Commissioned by the Stop Ecocide Foundation, an expert drafting panel of 12 highly renowned international criminal and environmental lawyers from around the world has just concluded six months of deliberations. The result: a legal definition of “ecocide” as a potential fifth international crime, to sit alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
Case Study on Waste Crime - Prosecuting the Export of UK Solid Waste to Other Countries
Howard McCann, the barrister who handled the Biffa Waste Services case, discusses its successful prosecution and the international cooperation that made it possible.
Environmental Crime - An Overview
Experts provide an overview of environmental crime issues and the challenges of dealing with and prosecuting transnational environmental crime.
Legal Preparedness for Responding to Disasters and Communicable Disease Emergencies: Study Report - Lao PDR
Laos is prone to a number of different disaster and disease risks such as floods in the Mekong corridor, major droughts, earthquakes, flash floods and storms related to a heavy typhoon season, as well as human influenza pandemic. Having a comprehensive legal framework in place will facilitate fast mobilization and response in the event of an emergency and will contribute to good coordination and information exchange between different humanitarian partners regardless of whether they are local, national or international.
Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You: Report Series Purpose and Introduction to Climate Science
Report 1 guides readers through some of the basics about climate change as a defining challenge of our time. It further explains how judges from Asia and the Pacific contribute to climate governance and litigation.
Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You: Climate Litigation in Asia and the Pacific and Beyond
Report 2 contains a comprehensive review of the growing number and variety of climate lawsuits in Asia and the Pacific. It underscores the unique flavor and voice of regional jurisprudence and compares it with global approaches.
Climate Change, Coming Soon to a Court Near You: National Climate Change Legal Frameworks in Asia and the Pacific
Report 3 provides holistic syntheses of the climate legal and policy frameworks of 32 countries in Asia and the Pacific and discusses key legislative trends and climate-relevant constitutional rights.