Abstract
Climate Change remains a topical and thorny issue of major concern across the globe. Alteration in the world climate system has impacted negatively on all aspects of human activities around the world. Global warming has progressively triggered immeasurable natural and human induced disasters ranging from incessant earthquakes, landslides, melting of the polar ice caps and flooding, amongst other extreme occurrences. Consequently, the necessity to find a permanent solution to this seemingly obstreperous challenge has become imperative; otherwise more unquantifiable devastation will befall humans and will continue to be hard hit from the impact there from. Recourse has been had to laws and policies on climate change by fashioning out same to either moderate the frequency of human activities through mitigation or cushion the impacts of climate change through adaptation. But due to the fragility of climate change laws and policies, leading to their unenforceability, recourse has also been had to environmental law and policy impliedly to augment or breathe life to the soul of climate change law and policies. Thus, climate smart laws and policies, have been recommended to regulate climate change, mitigation. Although, most of the existing environmental laws and policy, have by implication, been resorted to for the regulation of climate change, but, unfortunately, have not made any significant impact in mitigating climate change. This paper adopted the doctrinal method of research, with primary sources derived from international conventions and treaties and secondary sources derived from textbooks and online sources. In this paper, genuine recommendations were distilled and proffered for the betterment of human environment.