Cambodia consolidated its entire environmental and climate legal base into one 865-article, twelve-book Code of Environment and Natural Resources, adopted on 13 June 2023, which establishes the country's climate-adaptation, GHG-reduction, financing and reporting architecture in a single instrument rather than a dedicated climate act; the Code supersedes the 1996 environmental protection law. Cambodia was the first ASEAN country and second Least Developed Country globally to file a Long-Term Strategy for Carbon Neutrality, submitted to the UNFCCC on 30 December 2021 and committing to carbon neutrality by 2050 across agriculture, forestry and land use, energy, transport, industrial processes and waste. Cambodia filed an NDC3.0 on 1 July 2025. Cambodia has no dedicated carbon-market instrument.
Projects
Cleaner, Safer Water in Cambodia
A Cambodian social enterprise distributing ceramic water filters, financed on the Gold Standard marketplace.
Grouped Projects for Cambodia Improved Cookstove
A grouped Verra project distributing Ecozen cookstoves manufactured in Vietnam.
Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary REDD+ Project
A Wildlife Conservation Society project protecting over 166,000 hectares of Cambodian sanctuary forest.
National Biodigester Programme (NBP), Cambodia
SNV and the Cambodian government's national biodigester programme, running since 2005.
Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary REDD+ (JCM)
Conservation International, Cambodia's Ministry of Environment and Mitsui and Co. developing REDD+ across Prey Lang forest.
Southern Cardamom REDD+
Round-the-clock ranger patrols guarding half a million hectares of Cambodia's Cardamom rainforest.
Regulation
Framework law
"The Code provides a comprehensive framework for managing and protecting Cambodia's natural resources. This code emphasises the importance of sustainable development and integrating climate change considerations into national policies and practices. It contains a section to strengthen and improve capacity for climate change adaptation and resilience and greenhouse gas emissions reduction, by delineating the roles and duties of the ministry responsible for environment and natural resources; the policies, strategies and plans responding to climate change; the development of the financing framework and mobilisation of finance; and climate change information and reporting."climate-laws.org document summary field
865-article, 12-book code superseding the 1996 environmental protection law; establishes Cambodia's climate-adaptation, GHG-reduction, financing and reporting architecture in one instrument (no separate framework climate act).
Issuing body: Royal Government of Cambodia · Single source
NDC
"Cambodia Nationally Determined Contribution. NDC3.0"climate-laws.org geography family listing
Issuing body: Ministry of Environment / National Council for Sustainable Development · Single source
Carbon market
No carbon market instrument located. Checked: none found, checked climate-laws.org geography listing and the Code's own summary (financing framework is general, not a dedicated market instrument)
Net-zero / LTS
"The National Council for Sustainable Development and Ministry of Environment has the honor to inform the public, national and international media, development partners, NGOs, relevant ministries/institutions, embassies, and all stakeholders that Cambodia has submitted the Long-Term Strategy for Carbon Neutrality (LTS4CN) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 30 December 2021. This submission is in line with the commitment made by Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister, during the 2020 United Nations Climate Ambition Summit..."NCSD (Cambodian Ministry of Environment body) official press release
Commits Cambodia to carbon neutrality by 2050 across agriculture/forestry/land-use, energy, transport, IPPU and waste — the first ASEAN country and second LDC globally to file such a strategy.
Issuing body: National Council for Sustainable Development / Ministry of Environment · Single source