Environmental Law’s Untapped Potential for Environmental Governance
By Ismo Pölönen, Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland This blog post was first published on the Blog of UEF Law School (16 September 2026). A healthy academic community is pluralistic. The purpose of this blog is to present a partly alternative framework in relation to the theoretically sophisticated research conducted […]
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 […]
Better than best available: does environmental permitting spur environmental innovations in Finland?
Photo by Matt Ridley on Unsplash Mirella Miettinen and Saara Österberg In Finland, two recent cases from the minerals sector – Dragon Mining Ltd and Batteries Materials Finland Ltd – have indicated that there are ambiguities in the requirement for the best available technique (BAT) in the environmental permitting process. Dragon Mining operated a gold […]