The Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (“EIAO”) was enacted 21 years ago, on 1 April 1998. It imposed a new mandatory procedure for the assessment of the foreseeable environmental impacts and...

Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Benoit Mayer is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches climate, environmental and international law, and is the author of The International Law on Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2018).