Climate change is currently the most urgent and profoundly complex environment-related problem for the international community. Solutions are urgently needed in policy & governance to mitigate and reduce impacts. To promote international cooperation and ensure the effective implementation of CC agreements, the system of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), applying a “bottom-up” approach, was confirmed by the landmark Paris Agreement, 2016. However Malaysia India and Vietnam are amongst these countries that do not align with the Paris Agreement Provisions, their institutional capacity to monitor and enforce policies is poor and the violation of environmental standards is rampant with India counting among the biggest emitter in the world. Therefore Solutions are urgently needed in policy and governance to ensure the effective implementation of CC agreements that is the system of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). More than that there is a need to formulate and reform climate-specific legislation in order for the Partner Countries to fulfil their international responsibilities in addressing CC and train CC experts with global knowledge and understanding on the local legal and socio-economic development. To achieve this goal, the advancement in higher education needs to focus on producing academic leaders with the right blend of knowledge, skills and attitude to drive HEIs in the right direction for sustainable development and fill in the knowledge gap in CC among the various programs’ curricula offered in HEIs. In order to address these needs CCP_Law project will develop test and adapt a postgraduate degree that will formulate and increase the number of highly-skilled legal practitioners, policy-makers and government officials as well as graduates from different disciplines that will effectively address the need to formulate and reform the institutional frameworks and the National Determined Contributions in their countries.

"With new challenges also at hand of mixed human migratory pattern, the call is loud and clear for India, Myanmar and Malaysia to equip themselves with more empathetic refugee and migrant policies and start to develop a national legislative framework that will protect asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) based on international norms and regulations. Without the law, refugees lack legal status, lack basic human rights, and are vulnerable to exploitation. They are trafficked, subject to arbitrary arrest and detention, left destitute and homeless, and on top of it all, are vilified as ""illegal immigrants. Without the law there is no solution and refugees are left in indefinite limbo. For these reasons, the project will aim to push for the adoption in Partner Countries of a meaningful, comprehensive, domestic legal framework that is consistent with international standards and ensures refugees are actually protected. It will do so by: 1) Improving legal practitioners’ knowledge and expertise on International law and forced migration via the development and delivery of an LLM program to help them become competent in the implementation of the International and national refugee legislative framework in their Partner countries 2) Increasing the capacity of the academic staff of Partner HEIS and improve their level of competences and skills through the exchange of specialised knowledge on the subject area and through the development of a LLL Programme customized to their needs and needs of the 21st century and 3) Enriching the modernisation of Partner HEIs through the promotion of transnational cooperation in the field of international law and forced migration data analysis on domestic developmental concerns and by exchanging good practices in the subject area between EU, PC HEIs, legal practitioners, social actors, European and international refugee organisations and relevant policy makers."