#climate law 新闻
Over the next three months, Malaysia's environment ministry will consult state and federal actors, as well as industry and civil society groups as it prepares a draft of the bill.
组织亚洲区主任龙迪（Dimitri de Boer）指出，作为一家西方机构，其选择在面对中国或亚洲政府和企业时采取更柔软的策略，避开采取气候或环境诉讼。
Globally, a movement to endow natural ecosystems with legal rights is growing. Observers say Asia’s judges might be more culturally disposed to rule in favour of nature, but they need to be equipped with knowledge on the latest trends.
The United Nations has held 28 annual climate summits. But with the process failing to provide a legally binding path for emission reduction and fossil fuel phase-out, many are turning to litigation to hold firms and governments to account.
#climate law 观点
Government agencies charged with devising effective policies to clean up our fossil-fuel-based economies often lack the resources and expertise to do so, underscoring the need for NGOs to provide them with critical data and technical know-how.
With the climate crisis escalating fast, calls for more authoritarian decision-making structures – widely viewed as more efficient – are increasing. But the notion that any version of an authoritarian system would be free of “special interests,” and run by neutral, rational technocrats, is implausible.
In Asean, there is no general regional agreement securing environmental rights and obligations but the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution is an example of a sectoral achievement.
Indonesia risks losing its exclusive rights to all of the resources in and under the waters between its …
