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Showing 1 - 10 of 140 resultsLegislation | 2024 |Climate Change Act, 2024
South AfricaThis Act sets out the strategic direction of travel for national climate change policy in South Africa and establishes the key institutional arrangements for climate governance at the national level. The recitals emphasise that responding to climate change raises unique challenges to effective governance and requires a nationally driven, coordinated and cooperative legal and administrative...Law No. 3991-IX on the State Climate Policy| 2024 |Legislation
UkraineLaw No. 3991-IX (the Law) establishes Ukraine's overarching response to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The Law is aimed at implementing the EU's Regulation (EU) No. 2018/1999 on the governance of the Energy Union and the mitigation of climate change and Regulation (EU) No. 2021/1119, establishing a framework for achieving climate neutrality (the "European Climate law"). The law establishes...
Legislation | 2023 |Decree 11.547
BrazilThis decree established the Law Carbon Industry Technical Committee, an independent body established to provide advice on the transition of the country's industrial sector. The decree establishes the mandate and composition of the committee. It also revoked Decree No. 10,275 of March 13, 2020. The summary of this document was written by researchers at the Grantham Research Institute for the...Legislation | 2023 |Carbon Neutral Green Growth Framework Act to tackle the Climate Crisis
Republic of KoreaSouth Korea 탄소중립기본법 Act 19430 of 2023 Published on 9 6월 2023 Commenced on 10 7월 2023 [This is the version of this document at 9 6월 2023.] 제1장총칙 제1조 – (목적) 이 법으 기후위기의 심각한 영향을 예방하기 위하여 온실가스 감축 및 기후위기 적응대책을 강화하고 탄소；립"人?회로의 이행 과정에서 발생할 수 있는 경제적 - 환경적 - 사회적 불평등을 해소하며 녹색기술과 녹색산업의 육;. 촉진. 활성화를 통하여 경제와 환경의 조화로운 발전을 도모함으로써, 현재 세대와 미래 세대의 삶의 질을 높 이고 생태계와 기후체계를 보호하며 국제사회의 지속가능발전에 이바지아는 것을 목적으로 안다. 제2조 – (정의)...Legislation | 2022 |National Climate Law 4936/2022 on the transition to climate neutrality and adaptation to climate change
GreeceThis law sets Greece's legal framework on climate action. The document also contains emergency provisions to address the energy crisis and protect the environment. Key measures established in this law include: a) setting a net zero target for 2050, b) measures and policies to strengthen adaptation to climate change at the lowest possible cost, c) intermediate anthropogenic emission mitigation...Legislation | 2022 |Climate Change and Carbon Market Initiatives Act, 2022
BahamasThe objectives of this Act are threefold: To enable the Government to create incentives and implement initiatives to support the overall global target of greenhouse gas emissions reduction consistent with its Nationally Determined Contributions; To ensure compliance by The Bahamas of its obligations under the Paris Agreement; to enable the establishment of a market in The Bahamas to trade in...Legislation | 2022 |Climate Change Act 2022
AustraliaAustralia's framework climate mitigation document sets out greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets by 2030 and by 2050. The Act provides for annual climate change statements, requiring the Minister to prepare such statements; and cause copies of those statements to be tabled in each House of the Parliament. The document further confers advisory functions on the Climate Change Authority which is...Legislation | 2022 |Ley Marco de Cambio Climático
ChileThe purpose of this law is to face the challenges presented by climate change, move towards a low-carbon development, until reaching and maintaining carbon neutrality by 2050. It also aims to adapt to climate change, reduce vulnerability and increasing resilience to the adverse effects of climate change, and comply with the international commitments assumed by Chile. This document amends a number...Legislation | 2022 |Climate Act
FinlandThe Climate Change Act intends to create a bottom up, long-term, consistent and cost-effective framework for climate policy action by enabling coordinated and transparent political decision making. In March 2022, the government introduced a bill to ensure that a carbon neutrality target for 2035 and other international and EU climate objectives will be reached. The new Act was approved by...Legislation | 2022 |Loi portant ratification de l'ordonnance n°019/PR/2021 du 13 Septembre 2021 relative aux changements climatiques
GabonOn 22 December 2022, a law was passed ratifying Ordinance No. 19/2021 on climate change. This law aims to: maintain Gabon's carbon neutrality by 2050, in particular, by implementing its nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement. enhance the economic potential linked to ecosystem services and natural capital in favor of mobilizing capital for the benefit of the national economy... - Institutional arrangements (45)