A legal clinic from Qatar University College of Law (QU-LAWC) and local institutions is reviewing the current Qatari laws and policies related to climate change with the aim to find ways to adapt the objectives and terms of the Paris Agreement within the Qatari context.
The legal clinic comprises LAWC Oil and Gas Law Assistant Professor and IRL Editor-in-Chief Dr Talal Abdulla Al Emadi, LAWC Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Basheer AlAhbabi, Georgetown University in Qatar Fellow Dr Fadi Makki, and Assistant Undersecretary for Environmental Affairs at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment and Chair of the National Committee and Team for Climate Change, Engineer Ahmad Al Sada. They are studying the trade-related response measures included in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the way these measures are designed.
They are also assessing the role of free trade agreements in the mitigation of climate change.
The Paris Agreement, which entered into force last November, under the umbrella of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) builds upon the Convention and – for the first time – brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change.
