CLGD brings together diverse stakeholders alongside the UNFCCC COP each year to combine perspectives and solutions to the complex challenges of addressing climate change

This side-event, coordinated by the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) and hosted by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), took place at the Climate Change Studio convened by the UNFCCC Secretariat during the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2017 (SB 46 / SBSTA 46 / APA 1-3).

Legal Innovations in Haiti and Other Climate Vulnerable Countries Side Event at the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

The first session introduced participants to the legal and governance challenges for clean technology transfer.

Together with these new partners, the coalition of CLGI partners hosted a series of seminars, conferences and symposia world-wide, culminating in the second annual Climate Law and Governance Day on Friday 11 November 2016, as an official CoP22 side event.

The FS-UNEP Centre's 6 months online courses focusing on Climate Finance, one for Renewable Energy (RE) as well as one for Climate Adaptation are now open for registration

An online course to develop participants’ understanding of the climate change policy framework by building an appreciation of the science, causes and impacts of climate change, the history of the policy making process and the UNFCCC framework, and will also consider the pertinent challenges currently facing diplomats and international decision makers in making progress with what is currently on the negotiating table. The course will take a close look at the negotiations to-date. The course will take a close look at gender in the negotiations and also the specific interests of parties who are most vulnerable to impacts of climate change.

The Pacific Climate Law and Governance will feature a climate leaders plenary panel for sharing cutting-edge legal challenges and innovations in the region and beyond, and three legal expert seminars for inter-active discussions and debates to advance climate action

Legal processes and instruments are important considerations in responding to climate change and serve as essential vehicles for implementing policy precepts and objectives across many sectors and fields that relate to climate law and governance.

This roundtable event took place alongside the Partnership Day during the pre-COP in Fiji. The event capitalised on the mobilisation of the climate law and governance community to Fiji for the Pre-COP.

CLGD 2017 welcomed over 270 jurists, legal researchers, IGO officers, parliamentarians, delegates, legal professionals, students, and professors, to discuss the research and capacity building obstacles and opportunities to addressing these legal and institutional challenges.

This interactive capacity-building day introduced participants to timely issues concerning legal and governance challenges and opportunities for the implementation of the NDCs and the Paris Agreement. With the event booked to capacity, forty five delegates, civil society representatives and students took part in the day.