Publications

Find our latest publications on climate, energy, and environmental law and policies:

Journal articles

• Maiju Mähönen, ‘Citizens’ Access to Justice in EU Climate Governance: Judicial Review of necp s before National Courts’ (2025) 22 Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law 245.
• Lauri Peterson and Harro van Asselt, ‘Assessing Risks to the Implementation of NDCs Under the Paris Agreement’ (2025) Climate Policy 1 [Epub ahead of print 09 June 2025].
• Jari Lyytimäki, Johanna Kentala-Lehtonen, Minna Halme, Lassi Linnanen, Mikko Mönkkönen, Ilkka Ratinen, Arto O Salonen, Katriina Soini, Niko Soininen, Anna-Maria Teperi and Reetta Toivanen, ‘Assessing the Effectiveness of Finland’s Sustainable Development Policy to Facilitate a Sustainability Transition’ (2025) 6 Discover Sustainability 751.
• Harri Kalimo and Eleanor Mateo, ‘A Two-Directional Coherence Framework for the Environment-Trade Nexus: A Case Study on “Circular” Recycled Content Requirements and the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement’ (2025) 34 Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 35.
• Sebastian Oberthür and Kati Kulovesi, ‘Accelerating the EU’s Climate Transformation: The European Green Deal’s Fit for 55 Package Unpacked’ (2025) Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 1-16 [Epub ahead of print 18 February 2025].
• Kim Talus, ‘Creating a Well-Functioning Internal Market for Biofuels’ (2025) ERA-Forum 1-12 [Epub ahead of print 29 January 2025].
• Catherine Hall and Harro van Asselt, ‘Decarbonising the Land Transport Sector: Pathways Towards Enhanced Global Governance’ (2025) 140 Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
• Harri Kalimo, Simon Happersberger and Mateo Simon, ‘Flexilateralism in EU Trade Policy: The Case of Aviation Fuels in the Hardening Environmental Trade Instruments’ (2025) Transnational Environmental Law 1-33 [Epub ahead of print 19 February 2025].
• Caterina Sasso, Annalisa Savaresi and Seita Vesa, ‘Piecing Together the Jigsaw: Forests in the EU’s Fit for 55 Package’ (2025) Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law 1-12 [Epub ahead of print 28 Jan 2025].
• Sebastian Oberthür, Ingmar von Homeyer, Lea Schewe and Brendan Moore, ‘Public Participation in EU Climate Governance: The Underexploited Potential of National Energy and Climate Plans’ (2025) 47 Journal of European Integration 257.
• Kaisa Huhta, ‘Rethinking the Right to Property in the European Low-Carbon Energy Transition’ (2025) 50 European Law Review 47.
• Goran Dominioni and Seita Vesa, ‘Shaping Europe’s Climate Neutral Future: The Fit for 55 Framework’ (2025) Review of European, Comparative & Environmental Law 1-4 [Epub ahead of print 19 March 2025].
• Kaisa Huhta, ‘The Court of Justice Defends the National Regulators’ Independence in the Energy Sector but Establishes Limits Regarding its Scope (Case C-48/23 Alajärven Sähkö and Others)’ (2025) EU Law Live.
• Annalisa Savaresi, ‘Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland: Making Climate Change Litigation History’ (2025) Review of European, Comparative & Environmental Law 1-9 [Epub ahead of print 27 March 2025].

Books and book chapters

• Kaisa Huhta, ‘An Essential Zero-Carbon Solution or a Perilous Energy Technology? Exploring the Nuclear Debate in EU Law’ in L Reins and A Zahar (eds), Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene (Bristol University Press 2025) 74-93.
• Tuula Honkonen, ‘The Role of Climate and Energy Diplomacy in Promoting Sustainability in EU External Relations Law’ in Ramses A Wessel et al (ed), EU External Relations Law and Sustainability: The EU, Third States and International Organizations (Asser press 2025) 305-328.
• Raihanatul Jannat, ‘”Up and Up! Gender-Responsive Climate Action in Bangladesh and the Way Forward’ in Mahatab Uddin (ed), International Law, Climate Change and Bangladesh (Springer 2024) 425.
• Kim Talus (ed), A Research Agenda for International Energy Law (Edward Elgar 2024).
• Annalisa Savaresi and Jacques Hartmann, Corporate actors and climate harms: the role of human rights law in E De Jong (ed), Corporate Accountability and Liability for Climate Change (Edward Elgar 2024). 
• Kaisa Huhta and Markus Sairanen,’The Regulation of Hydrogen Storage as End Use’, in Ruven Fleming (ed), The Cambridge Handbook of Hydrogen and the Law (Cambridge University Press 2024).
• Kaisa Huhta, ‘Capacity remuneration mechanisms: new rules, new problems?’ in Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Leigh Hancher (eds), Handbook of Energy and Competition Law (Edward Elgar 2024).
• Clara Brandi, Kateryna Holzer, Jean-Frédéric Morin, and Harro van Asselt, ‘Taking Climate Change Seriously in the Design of Trade Agreements’ in Kathleen Claussen, Manfred Elsig and Rodrigo Polanco (eds) The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement: Trends and Future Innovations (CUP 2024).
• Kati Kulovesi, Eugenia Recio, Dan Bondi Ogolla, Paola Bettelli, Stadler Trengove and Tita Korvenoja, Multilateral Environmental Agreements Negotiator’s Handbook. Third Edition. 2024
• Kati Kulovesi, Maiju Mähönen & Jenni Laininen, Ilmasto-oikeus. Globaali-ilmasto-oikeus ja Suomi (AlmaTalent 2024).
• Kim Talus & Pami Aalto, ‘Competences in EU energy policy’ in Rafael Leal-Arcas (eds), Research Handbook on EU Energy Law and Policy (Elgar 2024, 2nd edition).

Other publications

• Vilja Johansson, ‘A Just Transition Can be Advanced Through Framework Climate Laws‘ (2035Legitimacy Policy Brief, 2025).
• Jyri Seppälä, Lassi Ahlvik, Marianne Leino, Raisa Mäkipää, Markku Ollikainen, Marja Salo, Sampo Soimakallio, Anni Toiviainen, Aleksi Lehtonen, Fredric Mosley, Seita Vesa and Sofia Vikfors, ‘Arvio Suomen maankäyttösektorin tilanteesta – Tarkastelussa EU:n LULUCF-velvoitekaudet 2021–2025 ja 2026–2030‘ (2025) The Finnish Climate Change Panel.
• Vilja Johansson, Outi Penttilä and Seita Vesa, ‘From Greening to Justice-proofing: How Can Law and Legal Research Support a “Just Transition“‘ (RELIEF Blog post, 17 February 2025).
• Maiju Mähönen, ‘Access to Justice in the EU’s Procedural Climate Governance Framework: A Case Study of the NECPs‘ (D5.2: 4i-TRACTION case study report).
• Manjana Milkoreit, Yulia Yamineva, Laurie Laybourn , Yevgeny Aksenov, ‘The UN Summit of the Future – An Opportunity to Address the Risks of Earth System Tipping Points.’ Blog post, Global Tipping Points Community, 18 September 2024.
• Myele Rouxel and Niko Soininen, ‘Transition or Transformation for Sustainability? The Shortcomings of Technical Transitions and the Need for Sufficiency Transformation’, RELIEF project blog, 21 October 2024.
• Annalisa Savaresi and Joana Setzer  ‘People around the world are using courts to question whether climate policies are fair – new study’, The Conversation and CCEEL blog, 22 October 2024.
• Sara Tolonen, ‘Pariisin sopimuksen artikla 6 – Tie kohti Bakun COP29 ilmastokokousta’, Hiilikompensaatioinfo,1 November 2024.
• Harro van Asselt and Annalisa Savaresi, ‘Shell’s legal victory is disappointing – but this is not the end for corporate climate litigation’, The Conversation, 15 November 2024.
• Catherine Hall, ‘Designing Climate Clubs in Harmony with the Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities’, 2 December 2024.
• Eugenia Recio, Ongoing Climate Proceedings: Setting the Stage for ICJ’s Opinion, 2 May 2024, IISD, SDG Knowledge Hub.

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