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Over the next three months, Malaysia's environment ministry will consult state and federal actors, as well as industry and civil society groups as it prepares a draft of the bill.

The environmental law charity consciously chooses not to take the litigation route when engaging with China and other Asian countries. It is "more appropriate" as a Western NGO to take a softer approach, says its Asia chief Dimitri de Boer.

Globally, a movement to endow natural ecosystems with legal rights is growing. Observers say Asia’s judges might be more culturally disposed to rule in favour of nature, but they need to be equipped with knowledge on the latest trends.

COP28 Indigenous peoples demanding for climate finance

The United Nations has held 28 annual climate summits. But with the process failing to provide a legally binding path for emission reduction and fossil fuel phase-out, many are turning to litigation to hold firms and governments to account.

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Government agencies charged with devising effective policies to clean up our fossil-fuel-based economies often lack the resources and expertise to do so, underscoring the need for NGOs to provide them with critical data and technical know-how. By Ajay Mathur and Christopher Grundler

With the climate crisis escalating fast, calls for more authoritarian decision-making structures – widely viewed as more efficient – are increasing. But the notion that any version of an authoritarian system would be free of “special interests,” and run by neutral, rational technocrats, is implausible. By Jan-Werner Mueller

In Asean, there is no general regional agreement securing environmental rights and obligations but the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution is an example of a sectoral achievement. By Linda Yanti Sulistiawati