Author : Asian Development Bank
Release : 2020-12-01
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 489/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis National Climate Change Legal Frameworks in Asia and the Pacific by : Asian Development Bank
Download or read book National Climate Change Legal Frameworks in Asia and the Pacific written by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2020-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National legal and policy frameworks underpin international climate action because they are the backbone of domestic responses to the climate emergency. Unless they support global objectives, local climate action stalls. Concerned by sluggish national responses to climate change or injured by its impacts, citizens are filing lawsuits, making courts central to national climate governance. To adjudicate these lawsuits, courts require current information about their climate change legal and policy frameworks. This report 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.