This online workshop was organised by the OECD and the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection, and Climate Change of Uzbekistan on July 12, 2024, to support the country’s efforts to develop a new Climate Change Law. The guest speakers shared their experiences in developing climate change laws across the world. Notable lessons included:
Ensure policy integration: Make sure to avoid overlap with pollutants that are regulated under existing legal instruments. Think of other instruments that target aspects of climate change/pollution already before starting to devise new legislation;
Set targets consistently and consider using carbon budgets to have the long-term and also a shorter term view;
Have an independent advisory body to ensure monitoring and evaluation;
Engage stakeholders as the law is drafted: establish working groups with key stakeholders such as businesses and academics to consult them on key design elements, organize citizen assemblies and climate councils to engage the public;
Spend ample emphasis on communicating to the public how the policies work and addressing their key concerns
Ensure capacity-building and funding to increase administrative capacity around the law;
Put a greater emphasis on adaptation, since progress has typically been slower.