Climate change is currently the most urgent and profoundly complex environment-related problem for the international community. Solutions are urgently needed in policy and governance to mitigate and reduce impacts. To promote international cooperation and ensure the effective implementation of Climate Change (CC) agreements, the system of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), applying a “bottom-up” approach, was confirmed by the landmark Paris Agreement, 2016. However, Malaysia India and Vietnam are amongst these countries that do not align with the Paris Agreement Provisions, their institutional capacity to monitor and enforce policies is poor and the violation of environmental standards is rampant with India counting among the biggest emitter in the world.
Therefore, solutions are urgently needed in policy and governance to ensure the effective implementation of CC agreements that is the system of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). More than that there is a need to formulate and reform climate-specific legislation in order for the Partner Countries to fulfil their international responsibilities in addressing CC and train CC experts with global knowledge and understanding on the local legal and socio-economic development.
To achieve this goal, the advancement in higher education needs to focus on producing academic leaders with the right blend of knowledge, skills, and attitude to drive HEIs in the right direction for sustainable development and fill in the knowledge gap in CC among the various programs’ curricula offered in HEIs. In order to address these needs CCP_Law project will develop test and adapt a postgraduate degree that will formulate and increase the number of highly skilled legal practitioners, policy-makers and government officials as well as graduates from different disciplines that will effectively address the need to formulate and reform the institutional frameworks and the National Determined Contributions in their countries.