A Comparative Legal Perspective on the Legal Framework Governing Public Involvement in Environmental Decision-Making

Public engagement has grown to be a crucial a factor in environmental decision-making, such as the several ways that governments are addressing climate change, despite some doubts about its efficacy. Nonetheless, the body of current research tends to discuss the broad advantages of public involvement in environmental issues rather than delving into the specifics of how it happens and how it varies throughout countries—even those that are ostensibly pursuing identical public participation objectives. In order to close that knowledge gap, this article looks at the crucial role that law plays in determining how the public can actually participate in the process of making decisions about the environment across national boundaries, including the development of national agendas in order to lower emissions of greenhouse gases and get ready for the repercussions of climate change.