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Respondent filed for a protection order against Petitioner, her husband, alleging physical, emotional and economic abuse committed against her during their marriage. A permanent protection order was issued by the lower court in favor of Respondent. For failure to comply with the Permanent Protection Order (PPO), Respondent filed a Motion for Execution. Petitioner alleged that the PPO had already been revoked by operation of law due to Respondent's cohabitation with another man and the pending petition to nullify their marriage.
Howard McCann, the barrister who handled the Biffa Waste Services case, discusses its successful prosecution and the international cooperation that made it possible.
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).
The Administrative Order was issued to provide guidelines on the protection, conservation, and management of caves and cave resources.
This is the sixth 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).
The study, examining 43 climate change framework laws, looks into mechanisms to ensure accountability for the implementation of the obligations in the framework laws. It aims to present a comprehensive review of the mechanisms through which framework legislation may produce processes to ensure that the parties responsible for implementation of the obligations are accountable for their progress.
The People's Republic of China's (PRC) updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) submitted in 2021 embody its enhanced targets for climate action compared to its submission in 2015. PRC aims to have carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060; to lower CO2 emissions per unit of gross domestic product by over 65% from the 2005 level; to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25%; to increase the forest stock volume by 6 billion cubic meters from the 2005 level; and to bring its total installed capacity of wind and solar power to over 1.2 billion kilowatts by 2030.
The Act established the National Climate Change Fund for the Kingdom of Tonga. It also laid down the regulatory framework for the receipt of monies from national and international sources, and the financing of national climate change projects.
This is the fifth 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).
ADB’s Train-the-Trainers (TTT) Country Focal Points (CFPs) composed of senior professors from 12 countries across Asia convened on 25 October 2021 for a 3rd Virtual Roundtable to discuss developments around environmental and climate change laws and legal education.