The Yearbook of European Environmental Law brings together topical analyses of contemporary EU environmental law, and of its role in the international governance of the environment. Leading European and international academics, practitioners, and policy-makers provide in-depth scholarly articles...

The Yearbook of European Environmental Law brings together topical analyses of contemporary EU environmental law, and of its role in the international governance of the environment. Leading European and international academics, practitioners, and policy-makers provide in-depth scholarly articles...

The Yearbook of European Environmental Law brings together topical analyses of contemporary EU environmental law, and of its role in the international governance of the environment. Leading European and international academics, practitioners, and policy-makers provide in-depth scholarly articles...

This article explains the basic elements of climate change law, with a particular focus on those issues that promise to be important for a considerable time as well as the major factors that are driving the development of this law. The emerging law of climate change is being constructed at the...

This is the third edition (2008) of one of the leading monographs on European environmental law and policy. This book provides an analysis of important legal issues of European environmental law. What are the legal grounds for EC environmental policy and on what principles are directives and...

This paper is the 2003 German-language version of European Environmental Law (ISBN: 978-90-76871-76-9) and provides an analysis of legal issues of European environmental law in particular from a German legal perspective. What are the legal grounds for EC environmental policy and on what...

Switzerland has undertaken a commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the Swiss Federal Government and civil society were working towards achieving this target...

The working paper concerns the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) and its climate provision. It addresses the “When”, “Where”, and “How”. The “When” concerns when the CAI may enter into force. The paper provides an overview of some of the current issues that may...

At first sight the potential discrepancy between competitive behavior of market participants, trade rules and the basic notion of sustainable development may seem to be of a negligible importance. However, during the interactions of market processes with sustainability goals through various...