Resilience of complex legal systems in sustainability transformation (RELIEF)
A three-year project funded by the Research Council of Finland to identify opportunities within the law to achieve a sustainability transformation.
UEF Project members
Niko Soininen
Project Leader
UEF
Antti Belinskij
UEF
Kaisa Huhta
UEF
Seita Vesa
Project Vice Leader
Syke
The project focuses on the interdisciplinary analysis of the role and impact of legal systems on sustainability transformation. Sustainability transformation refers to the achievement of ambitious climate, biodiversity, and environmental status goals within this decade, but in such a way that the central values protected by the Finnish and the European Union legal systems are safeguarded.
Such values include, for example, democratic decision-making, the division of powers between different public and private actors in society, and competitive markets. The project is in close collaboration with established legislative and strategic processes prepared by the public authorities, as well as on updating the strategies of pioneering companies and civic actors.
The project seeks to clarify the roles of public authorities and private actors in sustainability transformation and produces a methodical toolkit for evaluating the impact of legal systems on the said transformation.
The project, funded by the Research Council of Finland, focuses on developing a legal transformation toolkit to help policymakers and business actors identify key transformation points. The toolkit aims to bring legal solutions and remove legal barriers to mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, meeting the European Green Deal agenda.
