Three Studies on German Climate Legislation and Climate Law

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Three Studies on German Climate Legislation and Climate Law

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As part of the implementation of its NDC, the Chinese government is focusing on further developing its climate legislation, which includes the design of a Chinese climate legislation framework. Through the climate legislation workstream of the project "Sino-German Cooperation on Climate Change – Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)", the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) supports the Chinese side by strengthening exchange between experts and stakeholders from the two countries and providing information on German and EU experience in this field.

In this context, Ecologic Institute will conduct three case studies on

  • the German Federal Climate Change Act (Klimaschutzgesetz)
  • the climate change acts at the sub-national level (Landesklimaschutzgesetze)
  • climate litigation in Germany.

The case studies will be presented in online workshops.

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Climate Change Law, Federal Climate Change Act (KSG), climate litigation, EU, environmental law
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