Aligning Ghana’s Carbon Credit Regulation with International Climate Commitments: Legal Gaps and Institutional Imperatives
ガーナの炭素クレジット規制と国際的な気候公約の整合：法的ギャップと制度的課題 (AI 翻訳)
Patrick Atiawin Akeba, Al-Amin Sharrif Abubakar
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日本語
本論文は、ガーナの2025年環境保護法（Act 1124）が炭素市場参加の初の法的枠組みを提供するものの、慣習的な土地所有権との間で炭素権利の帰属が未解決であると指摘する。土地の約80%が慣習的制度で保有される中、同法は重要な法的空白を残しており、これは国際的な市場メカニズム（パリ協定6条）と国内法秩序の緊張を反映する。著者は法多元主義の観点から、持続可能な炭素市場ガバナンスには両規範秩序の調整が不可欠と主張する。
English
This paper analyzes Ghana's Environmental Protection Act 2025, the first statutory framework for carbon market participation, arguing it creates a formally adequate but structurally incomplete regime due to unresolved property rights over carbon in a pluralist land tenure system. Approximately eighty percent of land is under customary tenure, yet the Act defers definition of carbon rights to future regulations. Using legal pluralism, the author contends that durable carbon governance requires mediating between international market logic (Article 6) and customary legal orders.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本は二国間クレジット制度（JCM）を通じてアフリカ諸国との炭素クレジット事業を展開しており、ガーナの事例は日本の制度設計や投資保護に示唆を与える。特に土地所有権と炭素権利の分離問題は、途上国におけるプロジェクトの持続可能性にとって重要。
In the global GX context
This paper contributes to the global debate on Article 6 implementation by highlighting how international carbon market rules interact with local property rights regimes. It provides a framework for policymakers and practitioners to address legal pluralism in carbon governance, relevant for countries developing carbon markets under the Paris Agreement.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Legal and climate scholars working on carbon markets, property rights, and legal pluralism may find the analytical lens useful for similar contexts.
🏢実務担当者:Companies involved in carbon offset projects in Africa should note the legal uncertainties around carbon rights and the need for robust due diligence.
🏛政策担当者:Regulators designing carbon market rules can learn from Ghana's experience about the necessity of clarifying carbon rights before engaging in international trading.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Ghana’s Environmental Protection Act 2025 (Act 1124) establishes the first statutory framework for carbon market participation in the country’s history. This comment argues that the Act creates a formally adequate but structurally incomplete regime: it builds an international trading architecture on top of an unresolved property rights question generated by Ghana’s pluralist land tenure system. Approximately eighty per cent of Ghana’s land is held under customary tenure by stools and skins, yet the Act defers the definition of carbon rights and ownership to future regulations. This deferral is not a technical gap alone; it reflects a fundamental tension between the Article 6 market logic, which presupposes clear, state-authorised, tradeable entitlements, and the customary legal order in which land and resource rights are communally held and fiduciarily administered. Drawing on doctrinal analysis of Act 1124 and Ghana’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (2021), this comment contends that durable carbon market governance in Ghana requires not merely supplementary regulations but a coherent mediation of two normative orders. Legal pluralism provides the analytical lens for this diagnosis and for the reform framework the article proposes.
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