EU legislation for clean air at crossroads
By Yulia Yamineva, Docent in Climate Law & Policy (Adjunct Professor) and Delphine Misonne, Professor, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles Air pollution has been a long-standing problem in the EU. While it has decreased over the past few decades, not least due to the EU clean air legislation and actions by national and local authorities, poor […]
The way forward for gender-responsive climate adaptation in International Climate Law
By Raihanatul Jannat, PhD Candidate. First published in the FMI’s Climate Bulletin: Research Letters on 21 February 2023 Due to existing multi-dimensional social injustices, some gender groups experience climate change more unduly than others. It is therefore necessary that international climate law is intersectional and gender-responsive. Currently, on one hand, legal provisions developed under the […]
Finland’s first climate lawsuit: Watching the forest sink
By Kati Kulovesi, Professor of International Law, Annalisa Savaresi, Associate Professor of International Environmental Law, Maiju Mähönen, Project Researcher and Otto Bruun, Junior Researcher In November 2022, Greenpeace and the Finnish Union for the Conservation of Nature filed Finland’s first climate case. The applicants claim that the Finnish Government has breached its obligations under Finland’s […]
EU regulation does not adequately consider environmental emissions of pharmaceuticals in global manufacturing supply chains
For further information, please contact Mirella Miettinen, Senior Researcher. First published in the UEF News and Events on 9 January 2023. EU regulation pertaining to good manufacturing practices and environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals does not adequately consider the environmental emissions of pharmaceuticals in global manufacturing supply chains, a recent study from the University of […]
Does the new Finnish Climate Change Act promote urban climate resilience?
By Tuula Honkonen, Senior Lecturer of International Law. First published in the FMI’s Climate Bulletin: Research Letters on 27 January 2023. Although climate change is a global problem and states are the main actors in climate governance, the role of sub-national governments is increasing in this field. Finland’s national Climate Change Act, revised in 2022, […]
Mitä yhdysvaltojen Inflation Reduction Act tarkoittaa energiasektorille?
By Sirja-Leena Penttinen, Senior Lecturer at UEF Law School and an Assistant Director and Adjunct Professor at the Tulane Center for Energy Law, New Orleans, US. Tässä kirjoituksessa tarkastellaan Yhdysvalloissa vastoittain hyväksyttyä niin kutsuttua inflaation vähentämispakettia ja erityisesti sen merkittävimpiä säännöksiä koskien puhtaan energian tuotantoa. Kirjoitus perustuu kirjoittajan pian ilmestyvään artikkeliin ’Clean Energy under the […]
The fraught governance of deep-sea mining
By Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb, Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate Law and Policy and Catherine Blanchard, Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Department of International and European Law, Utrecht University As the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) draws to a close in Montreal, calls are […]
Suomen ensimmäinen ilmasto-oikeudenkäynti on täällä – mistä on kyse?
Julkaistu 28.11.2022. Kirjoittajat: Kati Kulovesi, Maiju Mähönen, Otto Bruun. First published in the 2035Legitimacy blog on 28 November. Greenpeace ja Suomen luonnonsuojeluliitto ovat tänään ilmoittaneet valittavansa korkeimpaan hallinto-oikeuteen (KHO) ilmastolain toimeenpanoon liittyvistä laiminlyönneistä. Valitus kytkeytyy olennaisesti heinäkuussa 2022 voimaan tulleen uuden ilmastolain (423/2022) tavoitteisiin, joiden toteutuminen on maankäyttösektorin hiilinielun romahdusta koskevien ennakkotietojen valossa vakavassa vaarassa. Ilmastolain tärkeimpiin tavoitteisiin […]
Policy Forum Series on unilateralism in EU trade policies
The Policy Forum Series ‘The unilateralisation of EU trade policies – asserting interests or deserting principles?’ took place throughout the autumn. The series was organised by Prof Harri Kalimo (The Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL), University of Eastern Finland and the Centre for Environment, Economy and Energy (C3E), Brussel School of […]
COP27 flinched on phasing out ‘all fossil fuels’. What’s next for the fight to keep them on the ground?
By Fergus Green, Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL and Harro van Asselt, Professor of Climate Law and Policy, University of Eastern Finland. First published in The Conversation on 21 November 2022. The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once again, with a tussle over the place of fossil fuels in the global economy. […]