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Climate litigation can strengthen accountability as Malaysia weighs constitutional environmental rights: lawyer
Despite the absence of an explicit constitutional right to a healthy environment, former Malaysian Bar Council president Ambiga Sreenevasan said the courts are becoming more receptive to public interest litigation, strengthening avenues for citizens to seek accountability over environmental and climate-related decisions.
Raja Ampat continues to be vulnerable to nickel mining, with three companies pursuing mining rights on its largest island and state-owned PT Gag Nikel still operating, according to a new Greenpeace report.
The country’s new climate finance policy must be a pathway to access climate funds, not another bureaucratic hurdle.
Bangladesh’s shipbreaking industry faces a pivotal treaty dispute. The country’s interim government last year decided that both Basel Convention and the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) will apply simultaneously to the local shipbreaking operations.
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