SHORT COURSE HIGHLIGHTING THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF NAMIBIA’S NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS (NDC)

Mbudje (Managing Partner) © Mbudje & Co Legal Practitioners 21 June 2021 COURSE LAYOUT • PART I • What is climate change? • What is the effect of climate change on the global community? • What is the Paris Agreement • How does the Paris Agreement relate to Namibia? • PART II • The effect of legislation on NDC targets • Interpretation of law (legislative silence and legislative absence) • PART III. [...] ENERGY – LEGAL RECOMMENDATIONS • LEGAL RECOMMENDATIONS: • Promulgation of the Energy Bill of 2016 and Electricity Bill of 2016 • Extensive roll out of the Modified Single Buyer Model • National Energy Efficiency Policy • Electric vehicles and Transport LDV • National Biofuel Strategy and Framework is developed to ensure that this target is met. [...] AFOLU • The primary strength of the AFOLU sector is that the majority of the mechanisms’ primarily in the area of Forestry are already entrenched in legal instruments that carry the force of law. [...] • Not only are the mechanisms envisaged represented as provisions of the Forestry Act of 2001 the aforesaid act goes a step further by establishing a body responsible for the drafting, execution and monitoring of policy as well as the provisions of the act. [...] • Cement Regulations: Standards Act 2005 • Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (Vienna) (1985) • Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (Bamako) (1991) • Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes (Basel) (1989) • Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollu.