ABSTRACT
The report maps climate legislation across 16 Caribbean states, identifying 78 laws and decrees as of March 2025. It highlights the region’s growing recognition of the right to a healthy environment and distinguishes between climate-specific and climate-related legislation, with significant advances in climate framework laws, renewable energy, and disaster risk management. While progress is evident, there remain important opportunities to strengthen climate governance – through the enactement of climate framework laws and the integration of climate goals into environmental and sectoral legislation. The report concludes with recommendations to expand and consolidate these trends and support rights-based, resilient, and coordinated climate governance in the Caribbean.
Heredia Ligorria, Cristian and Schulte, Cara and Tigre, Maria Antonia, Trends in Climate Legislation in the Caribbean (April 3, 2025).
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