The 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...

This 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...

This law was enacted to strengthen wetland protection, maintain wetland ecological functions and biodiversity, ensure ecological security, promote the construction of ecological civilization, and achieve harmonious coexistence between man and nature (art 1). Article 39 of the law states that scientific studies shall be performed and measures taken accordingly to the local conditions of the...

On 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...

This Act commits South Korea to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. It repeals and replaces the Framework Act on Low Carbon Green Growth. Article 3 of the Act stipulates that a transition to a carbon-neutral society and green growth shall be promoted according to the following criteria: 1) the principle of intergenerational equity, 2) a comprehensive crisis response strategy that take into...

This law impulses low-carbon development through the establishment of goals and measures in order to reach carbon neutrality and resilience. It sets accountability mechanisms, defines pillars to enable the transition, and sets a range of economy-wide and sectoral mitigation and adaptation targets and other measures. According to a World Bank report, the law establishes that, beginning in 2023...

The Climate Act sets a target to reduce Denmark’s emissions by 70 percent in 2030 compared to 1990 and climate neutrality by 2050. The Act sets a rolling five-year target, 10 years in advance. The UN accounting rules are used to calculate greenhouse gas emissions and reductions against the target. The climate council is strengthened and expanded; its funds doubled, and its independence...

The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, which received royal assent on 29 June 2021, sets out Canada's federal emissions reduction targets in law and creates new mechanisms for legislative oversight of action to meet them. Section 6 sets out a long-term objective of achieving net zero emissions by at least 2050. Section 7 adopts Canada's existing NDC target of 2030 as a legal target...

This climate change act was approved by parliament on September 23, 2021, and will come into force as soon as published in the Gazette. It sets the legal framework to enable the country's mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk management actions. Article 6 recognises and declares that Fiji and the Earth are facing a climate emergency. The document establishes the National Climate Change...