BUILDING CAPACITY FOR CLIMATE LAW & GOVERNANCELaws and institutions can help or hinder climate action. They are crucial instruments for promoting sustainable development, and making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low-GHG and climate-resilient alternatives, as sought by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In order to raise awareness and strengthen capacity on legal and institutional […]

CLGI's special roundtable event in Bonn will bring together delegates, practitioners and researchers working on climate law and governance challenges to help to shape the law and governance research, education and capacity building agendas to address these challenges. Session 1: Advancing Paris Agreement innovations – transparency, markets, finance & compliance rules. Session 2: Scaling up national climate […]

Interested in law and governance aspects of climate change? Involved in efforts to build legal and institutional capacity? Willing to share ideas, new legal or institutional research, reforms or practices, and experiences? DEADLINE EXTENDED: Please respond by 20 June 2019 to this call for intervenors and participants in the upcoming roundtable dialogue, which will take place alongside the […]

Ayman Cherkaoui, Project Coordinator at the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and Lead Counsel for Climate Change ad the Center for International Law of Sustainable Development, is speaking on a panel of international experts about next steps for international climate action, four years after the Paris Agreement, and in the wake of the […]

Innovative Approaches to the Inner and Outer Work of Peacebuilding: Building Architecture for SDG 16 Personally, Locally, Globally Dr Alexandra Harrington, Lead Counsel for Peace, Justice and Accountability at CISDL and 2018 – 2019 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, is presenting as part of this one-day […]

Ayman Cherkaoui, Project Coordinator at the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and Lead Counsel for Climate Change at the Center for International Law of Sustainable Development, spoke on a panel of international experts about next steps for international climate action, four years after the Paris Agreement, and in the wake of the IPCC […]

Each year during the Subsidiary Bodies meetings in Bonn, the CLGI Secretariat convenes a roundtable discussion with some of its core partners to determine research priorities on climate law and governance, focus in depth on a selected current topic and to identify suitable themes for the upcoming CLGD. The 2019 Climate Law and Governance Roundtable […]

Lead Counsel Ayman Cherkaoui, Project Coordinator at the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, is speaking on synergies between the Paris Agreement and the SDG agenda at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2019 (HLPF 2019), which takes place from 9 to 19 July 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters in New […]

CLGD 2018: Advancing Law & Governance Contributions to Climate Action under the Paris AgreementIn collaboration with leading faculties of law of the University of Silesia, the 2018 Climate Law and Governance Day (CLGD) took place on 07 December 2018, during the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC in Katowice, Poland. CLGD 2018 […]

Ayman Cherkaoui, Coordinator, Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection and Climate Change Lead Counsel at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, is a panellist at this event on 'Managing Climate Risks: Adaptation Without Borders', at the Overseas Development Institute and also online. Ahead of the UN Climate Action Summit 2019, ODI and Wilton Park convene this […]

Seeking an international specialisation in climate law and governance? Through this half-day course during UNFCCC COP, earn a certification from the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), with leading speakers from UN-Environment, the IUCN, the EBRD and other partners, taught by top experts from the Universities of Cambridge, McGill, MIT, Oslo and others.Laws and […]