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.

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.

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.

Experts across key countries shared insights on challenges, good practices and lessons in legal and institutional reform to strengthen climate mitigation, resilience and finance, and build capacity for climate law and policy solution

This event explored the role of law, the legal community and civil society in achieving climate objectives and catalysed the key debates and insights from the discussions at Climate Law and Governance Day 2017 held on 10 Nov in Bonn.

The Climate Law and Governance Roundtable 2018 on Governing Climate Action - Rule of Law and Justice Dimensions of Implementing the Paris Agreement provided a transparent opportunity to propose themes and activities for Climate Law and Governance Day 2018 (CLGD 2018) in Katowice, Poland, aiming to build synergies and scale up law and governance frameworks […]

CLGD 2019 aims to provide a forum for dialogue, knowledge exchange and establishment of new partnerships for research and technical assistance; co-create new content through the publication of online legal material; compile an outcome report of the day’s findings to be shared with the Parties to the UNFCCC; and engage law and governance students from a diversity of regions in its different activities.