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The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Train-the-Trainers Country Focal Points (CFPs) comprising senior professors from 12 countries across Asia convened on 25 October 2021 for a Third Virtual Roundtable to discuss developments around environmental and climate change laws and legal education. They shared their efforts to safeguard environmental laws as their respective countries recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, including actions against increased plastic pollution, and projects posing large-scale deforestation and disaster risks.
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.
Experts provide an overview of environmental crime issues and the challenges of dealing with and prosecuting transnational environmental crime.
This is the fourth 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).
Global experts discussed regulatory developments, climate-related disclosure, board of directors' duties and liabilities and climate litigation, and identified risk assessment tools.
The webinar will shed light on the emerging climate change risks for companies and financial institutions in ADB developing member countries.
The Updated Nationally Determined Contribution of Nauru is aligned with its National Sustainable Development Strategy, being similarly structured around the seven national sustainable development strategies, namely productive land, healthy and productive people, water security, food security, energy security, healthy environment, and good governance, with loss and damage added as an eighth area of contribution. Each development strategy is presented with corresponding climate change co-benefits. Furthermore, Nauru aspires to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks by 2050, on the basis of equity and in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty.
Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program: Methodology in the Teaching of Environmental Law
This is the third 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).
At the 9th Council of ASEAN Chief Justices (CACJ) meeting on 7 October 2021, the ASEAN Chief Justices adopted a declaration calling on its Working Group on Judicial Education and Training to collaborate with ADB and submitted an implementation plan for CACJ's approval.
A renowned panel of experts shed light on the unique challenges, tools, resources, and knowledge-sharing opportunities that judges face in climate change cases. Participants comprised of judges and representatives from judicial academies and schools, multilateral development banks, academia, and legal communities.