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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.
This is the launch event for 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). The session is the first of the Legal Education Board’s 12-week Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program in support of its Revised Model Curriculum of the Basic Law Program (RMLC), which has provided for the mandatory teaching of environmental and natural resources law as a non-core subject in all Philippine law schools.
These trainings are part of a series under the Republic of the Philippines Legal Education Board’s 12-week Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program in support of its Revised Model Curriculum of the Basic Law Program (RMLC), which has provided for the mandatory teaching of environmental and natural resources law as a non-core subject in all Philippine law schools.
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.
Plaintiffs filed an application for stay against the environmental permit granted to the Wafi-Golpu Gold/Copper Mine citing irreparable damages, in the form of likely environmental damages unless the decisions were stayed. The court concluded that based on the arguable case and irreparable damages presented, the balance of convenience favored a grant of stay to avoid possible hardships, inconvenience or prejudice to all parties pending substantive review.
Timor-Leste Minster of Justice H.E. Dr. Manuel Cãrceres da Costa met with the ADB Team to discuss more effective and efficient handling and adjudication of violence against women and girls cases.
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.
Petitioners filed a case against government officials in Indonesia for their alleged negligence in fulfilling petitioners' right to a good and healthy environment due to lax regulations. The respondents were directed to establish a national ambient air quality standard that is sufficient to protect human health, the environment and ecosystems, and the health of sensitive groups within the populations based on developments in science and technology.
The rules and regulations were issued to implement the provisions of the Magna Carta for Homeowners and Homeowners Associations pursuant to the State's policy of the people's right to form organizations and associations in serving their legitimate collective interests.
This webinar is the first in a series of four webinars on environmental enforcement and compliance and follows the previous webinar on Environmental Impact Assessment Processes in Southeast Asia. It updates participants on the work of the IAIA Enforcement and Compliance Group and the important work of Environmental Impact Assessment Consultant Cheryl Wasserman and the International Association for Impact Assessment.