South Korea’s Carbon Neutral Green Growth Framework Act embodies the concept of climate justice within the law’s guiding principles, and then translates this into practical measures on implementing a just transition-aligned pathway to decarbonisation. This includes Chapter 7 of the law, which outlines planning measures such as the preparation of a social safety net for groups that are particularly...

This Section of the Act creates a Department of Climate Change and obliges the Department promote the implementation of Article 6 of the UNFCCC on education, training, and public awareness of climate change, and to establish links and cooperate with Small Island Developing States and other regional blocks, to mobilise resources and implement common adaptation and mitigation measures.

This article of the Act outlines measures for parliamentary oversight on the implementation of the national-level climate plan (and climate policies deriving from the plan).

The consideration requirement outlined in Section 13 of Germany's Federal Climate Protection Act stipulates that all bodies that discharge public duties must take the purpose of the Act and the targets it sets under consideration. In planning for, selecting and making investments and procurements at the federal level, the avoidance or causation of greenhouse gas emissions must be tied to a minimum...

Section 4 of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act 2019 inserts section 3(1)(aa) into the Climate Change Response Act 2002. It stipulates that the purpose of the Act is to provide a framework by which New Zealand can develop and implement climate change policies that contribute to the global effort under the Paris Agreement to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5...

This article establishes obligations for the Ministry of the Environment to monitor and evaluate measures to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, and promote the conservation and increase of forest carbon reserves through programmes and projects on the conservation and sustainable management of forests, whose beneficiaries should be local communities and indigenous peoples.

This article of the Act establishes the Climate Change Fund as the financing mechanisms for climate change actions and interventions that are approved by the National Climate Change Council, established under the Act. The Fund is vested in the National Treasury and is administered by the Climate Change Council. The article outlines the forms of payments to be paid into the Fund, in addition to the...

Section 20 of the Act ('Finnish Climate Change Panel') establishes the Finnish Climate Change Panel, which is appointed by the government and serves as an independent scientific advisory body that produces, compiles and analyse scientific information and identifies information needed to feed into policymaking processes that concern climate change mitigation and adaptation. Section 21 of the Act (...

The assimilation of indigenous and traditional knowledge into climate action is one of the Paris Agreement’s guiding principles, yet this is embedded in very few framework climate laws. Finland’s Climate Change Act 609/2015 takes a comprehensive approach by mandating the formation of a Sámi Climate Council to act in tandem with the Finnish Climate Change Panel, the independent scientific advisory...

Papua New Guinea’s Climate Change (Management) Act 2015 provides an example of how historically marginalised groups, such as indigenous peoples and customary landholders, can be included in decision-making around policy measures that affect their land and communities. The Act focuses on REDD+-related projects specifically: Section 89 stipulates that when entering into a climate change-related...