New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 33, no. 2, July 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Law in a hyperconnected world: Joining the dots for sustainable futures
• Katherine Owens & Hannah James, Embedding technology at the grassroots: Strategies for localising technology transfer under the UNFCCC technology mechanism
• Pasha L. Hsieh, Shaping green regionalism: New trade law approaches to environmental sustainability
• Ying Zhu, A quasi-normative conflict: Resolving the tension between investment treaties and climate action
• Tien Dat Hoang, Reassessing environmental protection in international investment agreements: The case of Vietnam
• Rachel Phang & Yaru Chia, Sustainability and the sunlight of disclosure: ESG disclosure in three Asian financial centres
• Asanka Edirisinghe & Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Nature as a sentient being: Can rivers be legal persons?
• General Articles
• Clemens Kaupa, Is it still permissible under EU law to issue new permits for oil and gas extraction?
• Mingzhe Zhu & Liyuan Fan, A comparative study of the judicial construction of scientific credibility in climate litigation
• Michael Kalis & Anna-Lena Priebe, The right to climate protection and the essentially comparable protection of fundamental rights: Applying Solange in European climate change litigation?
• Pontian Okoli & Etisang Abraham, In search of a sustainable future: A comparative assessment of climate change regimes in Nigeria and Kenya
• Lovleen Bhullar, Green public procurement of pharmaceuticals as a regulatory response to antimicrobial resistance and its compatibility with the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement
• Wen Duan & Luoyi Shen, The role of environmental impact assessments in the establishment and management of marine protected areas under the UNCLOS and the BBNJ Agreement
• Jinyuan Su & Yanan Shi, The precautionary approach and challenges posed by mega-constellations
• Case Note
• Louise du Toit, Caiphas Soyapi, & Louis J. Kotzé, David versus Goliath? Indigenous people, carbon majors and climate litigation in South Africa

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 33, no. 1, April 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Yayun Shen & Michael Faure, Behavioural instruments in environmental law and policy: Potential and challenges
• Goran Dominioni, Carbon pricing for international shipping, equity, and WTO law
• Sarah Downs, Civil liability for climate change? The proposed tort in Smith v Fonterra with reference to France and the Netherlands
• Paula Leskinen, Antti Belinskij, & Sanna-Riikka Saarela, Integrating climate change into legislative drafting: An analysis of regulatory impact assessment obligations and practices in the EU and Finland
• Saga Eriksson, The centrality of law for EU sustainable finance markets: Outlining a research agenda
• Wen Duan, Area-based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement: Ambition or illusion?
• Antti Belinskij, Niko Soininen, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, & Noora Veijalainen, Climate change adaptation in water law: International, EU and Finnish perspectives
• Yang Liu, A legal analysis of the interinstitutional duty to cooperate in international water law
• Esmeralda Colombo, A paper tiger in the fog of governance: Norway's riddle in biodiversity matters
• Mirta Alessandrini, Edwin Alblas, Lin Batten, & Sumira Bothé, Smallholder farms in the sustainable food transition: A critical examination of the new Common Agricultural Policy
• Case Note
• Gabriel M. Lentner & Weronika Cenin, Daniel Billy et al v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition): Climate change inaction as a human rights violation

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 32, no. 3, November 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Emerging Issues in Loss and Damage for Vulnerable States
• Lisa Benjamin & Adelle Thomas, The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective
• Linda Siegele, Financing for loss and damage under the UNFCCC: Have we come full circle?
• Siobhan McDonnell, The COP27 decision and future directions for loss and damage finance: Addressing vulnerability and non-economic loss and damage
• Lisa Vanhala, Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom
• Maria Antonia Tigre & Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Beyond the North–South divide: Litigation's role in resolving climate change loss and damage claims
• Articles
• Giulia Claudia Leonelli, The long and winding road towards the creation of climate clubs: Transatlantic negotiations, potential regulatory models and challenges ahead
• Pablo Peña, Could a trade agreement strengthen the enforcement of domestic environmental laws? Envisioning the impacts of the US–Peru environmental submissions mechanism
• Chenjun Zheng, A framework for the assessment of alternative uses in international water law
• Froukje Maria Platjouw, Ingrid Nesheim, & Caroline Enge, Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway
• Case Note
• Anna Florentine Gall, Clara Lina Bader, & Edwin Alblas, Support for young farmers in the European Union: How much discretion for Member States?

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 32, no. 2, July 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: International Climate Litigation
• Benoit Mayer & Harro van Asselt, The rise of international climate litigation
• Daniel Bodansky, Advisory opinions on climate change: Some preliminary questions
• Aref Shams, Tempering great expectations: The legitimacy constraints and the conflict function of international courts in international climate litigation
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, The role of an advisory opinion of ITLOS in addressing climate change: Some preliminary considerations on jurisdiction and admissibility
• Rozemarijn J. Roland Holst, Taking the current when it serves: Prospects and challenges for an ITLOS advisory opinion on oceans and climate change
• Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli & Mario Gervasi, Harm to the global commons on trial: The role of the prevention principle in international climate adjudication
• Christina Voigt, The power of the Paris Agreement in international climate litigation
• Natalie Jones, Prospects for invoking the law of self-determination in international climate litigation
• Steve Lorteau, The potential of international ‘State-as-polluter’ litigation
• Riccardo Luporini & Annalisa Savaresi, International human rights bodies and climate litigation: Don't look up?
• Armando Rocha & Rômulo Sampaio, Climate change before the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights: Comparing possible avenues before human rights bodies
• Kári Ragnarsson, What can climate change litigation learn from socio-economic rights litigation?
• Shalini Iyengar, Human rights and climate wrongs: Mapping the landscape of rights-based climate litigation
• Chiara Tea Antoniazzi, Strengthening the complaint mechanisms of multilateral climate funds and carbon markets: A critical step towards a human rights-based green transition
• Henok Asmelash, The WTO dispute settlement system as a forum for climate litigation?
• Diego Mejía-Lemos, The suitability of investor-State dispute settlement and host State counterclaims for implementing climate change international responsibility
• Ji Ma, Bridging multinational corporations' investment-climate gap: Prospects for the direct claims approach
• Oliver Hailes, Unjust enrichment in investor–State arbitration: A principled limit on compensation for future income from fossil fuels
• Case Note
• Tadesse M. Kebebew, Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v Bolivia): Is the International Court of Justice falling short?

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 32, no. 1, April 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Ana Mendes, Lorena Martínez Hernández, Léa Badoz, Lydia Slobodian, & João E. Rabaça, Towards a legal definition of ecological restoration: Reviewing international, European and Member States' case law
• Xisheng Huang & David J. Devlaeminck, The legal components of benefit-sharing in transboundary watercourses: An analysis of China's approach
• Manolis Kotzampasakis, Intercontinental shipping in the European Union emissions trading system: A ‘fifty–fifty’ alignment with the law of the sea and international climate law?
• Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk, Protecting the marine environment from the impacts of climate change: A regime interaction study
• Agung Wardana, A quest for agency in the Anthropocene: Law and environmental movements in Southeast Asia
• Teresa Weber, Are climate activists protected by the Aarhus Convention? A note on Article 3(8) Aarhus Convention and the new Rapid Response Mechanism for environmental defenders
• Anita Kittery & Mirella Miettinen, Environmental considerations in the European Union's pharmaceuticals legislation: Key instruments and their challenges in addressing global manufacturing supply chains
• Bin Gu, A legal study of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's new Environmental and Social Framework
• Nicholas Campbell, Individual rights and the environmental public interest: A comparison of German and Chinese approaches to environmental litigation
• Bingyu Liu, Criminal justice cooperation to combat transnational wildlife crime: An examination of cooperation between China and Africa
• Joanna Endacott & Shawkat Alam, Mainstreaming displacement in development policies: An analysis of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu approaches
• Karolina Karpus, Not easy to ‘green’ old ways: National courts and rights-based smog cases in Poland
• Case Note
• Mingzhe Zhu, The ‘bitcoin judgements’ in China: Promoting climate awareness by judicial reasoning?

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 31, no. 3, November 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Elisa Morgera & Patrick Vrancken, The ocean, sustainable development and human rights
• Special Issue: Ocean, sustainable development and human rights
• Julia Nakamura, Daniela Diz, & Elisa Morgera, International legal requirements for environmental and socio-cultural assessments for large-scale industrial fisheries
• Harrison Kwame Golo, Sulley Ibrahim, & Bolanle Erinosho, Integrating communities' customary laws into marine small-scale fisheries governance in Ghana: Reflections on the FAO Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries
• Stephanie Switzer, Elisa Morgera, & Elaine Webster, Casting the net wider? The transformative potential of integrating human rights into the implementation of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies
• Elisa Morgera & Hannah Lily, Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis
• Graham J. Hamley, The implications of seabed mining in the Area for the human right to health
• Tanya Wagenaar, A principled approach for BBNJ: An idea whose time has come
• Original Articles
• Audrey Danthinne, Mariolina Eliantonio, & Marjan Peeters, Justifying a presumed standing for environmental NGOs: A legal assessment of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention
• Joyce De Coninck & Anemoon Soete, Non-refoulement and climate change-induced displacement: Regional and international cross-fertilization?
• Nicola Sharman, Inter-State climate technology transfer under the UNFCCC: A benefit-sharing approach
• Clemens Kaupa, Scrutinizing net zero: The legal problems of counting greenhouse gas emissions, removals and offsets together
• Stellina Jolly, Domestic entities and access and benefit-sharing: A legal critique of Divya Pharmacy v Union of India
• Carola Glinski, Liability of shipowners and classification societies for environmental damage and unsafe working conditions at recycling yards
• Susan McCluskey, Calibrating states' emissions reduction due diligence obligations with reference to the right to life
• Haomiao Du & Hao Zhang, Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 31, no. 2, July 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Marc Limon, United Nations recognition of the universal right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: An eyewitness account
• Emma Allen & Mario Prost, Ceci n'est pas un État: The Order of Malta and the Holy See as precedents for deterritorialized statehood?
• Arie Trouwborst & Jens-Christian Svenning, Megafauna restoration as a legal obligation: International biodiversity law and the rehabilitation of large mammals in Europe
• Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli & Priska Lueger, A democratic nuclear energy transition? Public participation in nuclear activities
• Yankun Zhao & Bill Butcher, Coming to terms with public participation in decision making: Balancing clarity and impact in the Aarhus Convention
• J. Michael Angstadt, Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals
• Rebeca Macias Gimenez, Making space for indigenous law in state-led decisions about hydropower dams: Lessons from environmental assessments in Canada and Brazil
• Jonathan Verschuuren, Achieving agricultural greenhouse gas emission reductions in the EU post-2030: What options do we have?
• Romina Schaller, Till Markus, Klaas Korte, & Erik Gawel, Atmospheric CO2 as a resource for renewable energy production: A European energy law appraisal of direct air capture fuels
• Carola Glinski, The public–private governance regime on sustainable ship recycling: An in-depth analysis
• Ruoying Li & Shuang Lyu, Applying the precautionary principle to Fukushima nuclear wastewater disposal at sea
• Hilmer J. Bosch & Joyeeta Gupta, Water property rights in investor-state contracts on extractive activities, affects water governance: An empirical assessment of 80 contracts in Africa and Asia
• Case Note
• Diego Mejía-Lemos, The right to a healthy environment and its justiciability before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A critical appraisal of the Lhaka Honhat v Argentina judgement

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 31, no. 1, April 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Human Rights and the Climate Change Crisis
• Mara Tignino & Makane Moïse Mbengue, Climate change at the crossroads of human rights: The right to a healthy environment, the right to water and the right to development
• Philippe Cullet, Confronting inequality beyond sustainable development: The case for eco-human rights and differentiation
• Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, A human rights approach to energy: Realizing the rights of billions within ecological limits
• Elsabé Boshoff, Rethinking the premises underlying the right to development in African human rights jurisprudence
• Elena Cima, The right to a healthy environment: Reconceptualizing human rights in the face of climate change
• Helen Keller & Angela Hefti, Bringing the right to water into the spotlight: A civil right before the European Court of Human Rights?
• Jasper Krommendijk, Beyond Urgenda: The role of the ECHR and judgments of the ECtHR in Dutch environmental and climate litigation
• Regular Articles
• Mirella Miettinen & Sabaa Ahmad Khan, Pharmaceutical pollution: A weakly regulated global environmental risk
• Mengxing Lu & Michael Faure, Does the tiger have teeth? A critical examination of the toolbox approach of environmental law enforcement in China
• Junghwan Choi, The legal status of Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSAs): Challenges and improvements for PSSA resolutions
• Nikolas Sellheim & Otava Ojanperä, Indigenous youth and international conservation law: Five case studies
• Paul Martin, Solange Teles da Silva, Maurício Duarte dos Santos, & Carolina Dutra, Governance and metagovernance systems for the Amazon
• Case Note
• Magdalena Porzeżyńska, Case C-24/19 (A and others): How to ensure effet utile of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive?

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 30, no. 3, November 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Original Articles
• Colin Mackie, Due diligence in global value chains: Conceptualizing ‘adverse environmental impact’
• Gillian Moon, Arrested ambition? Foreign investor protections, stabilization clauses and fossil-fuelled power generation in developing countries
• Matthias Honegger, Wil Burns, & David R. Morrow, Is carbon dioxide removal ‘mitigation of climate change’?
• Elisabeth V. Henn, Protecting forests or saving trees? The EU's regulatory approach to global deforestation
• Elien Verniers, Bringing animal welfare under the umbrella of sustainable development: A legal analysis
• Rahel Zimmermann, The World Health Organization as actor in international environmental law? An analysis by example of the global waste challenge
• Jakub Handrlica, The mirage of universalism in international nuclear liability law: A critical assessment 10 years after Fukushima
• Viktor Weber, Are we ready for the ship transport of CO2 for CCS? Crude solutions from international and European law
• Yayun Shen & Michael Faure, Private standards for the public interest? Evidence from environmental standardization in China
• Case Note
• Chiara Macchi & Josephine van Zeben, Business and human rights implications of climate change litigation: Milieudefensie et al. v Royal Dutch Shell

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 30, no. 2, July 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Amazon Rainforest
• Ricardo Pereira & Beatriz Garcia, Editorial: The legal protection of the Amazon rainforest
• Maria Antonia Tigre, COVID-19 and Amazonia: Rights-based approaches for the pandemic response
• Justine Bendel & Tim Stephens, Turning to international litigation to protect the Amazon?
• Ricardo Pereira, Public participation, indigenous peoples’ land rights and major infrastructure projects in the Amazon: The case for a human rights assessment framework
• Joana Setzer & Délton Winter de Carvalho, Climate litigation to protect the Brazilian Amazon: Establishing a constitutional right to a stable climate
• Beatriz Garcia, Lawrence Rimmer, Leticia Canal Vieira, & Brendan Mackey, REDD+ and forest protection on indigenous lands in the Amazon
• Maria-Augusta Paim, Zero deforestation in the Amazon: The Soy Moratorium and global forest governance
• Regular Articles
• Stefan Mayr, Birgit Hollaus, & Verena Madner, Palm oil, the RED II and WTO law: EU sustainable biofuel policy tangled up in green?
• Timo Gerres, Manuel Haussner, Karsten Neuhoff, & Alice Pirlot, To ban or not to ban carbon-intensive materials: A legal and administrative assessment of product carbon requirements
• Hilmer J. Bosch, Joyeeta Gupta, & Hebe Verrest, A water property right inventory of 60 countries
• Case Note
• Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh & Ashleigh McCoach, The State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation: Distilling best practice and lessons learnt for future rights-based climate litigation

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 30, no. 1, April 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Rakhyun E. Kim & Louis J. Kotzé, Planetary boundaries at the intersection of Earth system law, science and governance: A state‐of‐the‐art review
• Patrick Toussaint, Loss and damage and climate litigation: The case for greater interlinkage
• Delphine Misonne, The emergence of a right to clean air: Transforming European Union law through litigation and citizen science
• Carlos Soria‐Rodríguez, The international regulation for the protection of the environment in the development of marine renewable energy in the EU
• Xiaoou Zheng, Empowering indigenous peoples and local communities: A human rights‐based appraisal of the compliance mechanism of the Nagoya Protocol
• Werner Scholtz, ‘Ethical and humane use’, intrinsic value and the Convention on Biological Diversity: Towards the reconfiguration of sustainable development and use
• Ming Du, Clearing the fog: Forest Stewardship Council labelling and the World Trade Organization
• Katharine Heyl, Tobias Döring, Beatrice Garske, Jessica Stubenrauch, & Felix Ekardt, The Common Agricultural Policy beyond 2020: A critical review in light of global environmental goals
• Meelan Thondoo & Joyeeta Gupta, Health impact assessment legislation in developing countries: A path to sustainable development?
• Surasak Boonrueang & Colin Reid, Conservation agreements and environmental governance: The role of nongovernmental actors
• Sandya Nishanthi Gunasekara & Md Saiful Karim, The role of ASEAN and its members in promoting the norm of responsible governance of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
• Orla Kelleher, A critical appraisal of Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 29, no. 3, November 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Contemporary Issues in International Water Law
• Lingjie Kong, The Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala case and the customary rules on the definition of international watercourse
• Yang Liu, Beyond semantics: Overcoming the normative incoherence surrounding the protection of international watercourse ecosystems
• Nabaat Tasnima Mahbub, The role of proportionality in the law of transboundary waters
• Alistair Rieu‐Clarke, Can reporting enhance transboundary water cooperation? Early insights from the Water Convention and the Sustainable Development Goals reporting exercise
• Yu Su, Evolving normativity in contemporary international water law: A communicative approach to the growing role of non‐state actors
• Patricia Wouters & Sergei Vinogradov, Reframing the transboundary water discourse: Contextualized international law in practice
• David J. Devlaeminck & Xisheng Huang, China and the global water conventions in light of recent developments: Time to take a second look?
• Sergei Vinogradov & Patricia Wouters, Adaptation regulatory regimes to address climate change challenges in transboundary water basins: Can multilateral regionalism help?
• Tianbao Qin & Jin Gu, Payments for ecosystem services in transboundary water allocation cases: An approach for China and its neighbours
• Owen McIntyre, State responsibility in international law for transboundary water‐related harm: The emergence of a new ecosystems‐based paradigm?
• Ana Maria Daza‐Clark, Enforcing transboundary water obligations through investment treaty arbitration: China, Laos and the Mekong River
• Huiping Chen, The role of amicus curiae in implementing the human right to water in the context of international investment law
• Original Articles
• Veera Pekkarinen, Going beyond CO2: Strengthening action on global methane emissions under the UN climate regime
• José Juste Ruiz, The process towards a Global Pact for the Environment at the United Nations: From legal ambition to political dilution
• Case Note
• Roberta Greco, Cordella et al v Italy and the effectiveness of human rights law remedies in cases of environmental pollution

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 29, no. 2, July 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Assessing the EU 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework
• Kati Kulovesi & Sebastian Oberthür, Assessing the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework: Incremental change toward radical transformation?
• Diarmuid Torney & Roderic O’Gorman, Adaptability versus certainty in a carbon emissions reduction regime: An assessment of the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework
• Stephen Minas, EU climate law sans frontières: The extension of the 2030 Framework to the Energy Community contracting parties
• Sanja Bogojević, Human rights of minors and future generations: Global trends and EU environmental law particularities
• Marjan Peeters & Natassa Athanasiadou, The continued effort sharing approach in EU climate law: Binding targets, challenging enforcement?
• Annalisa Savaresi, Lucia Perugini, & Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, Making sense of the LULUCF Regulation: Much ado about nothing?
• Alessandro Monti & Beatriz Martinez Romera, Fifty shades of binding: Appraising the enforcement toolkit for the EU’s 2030 renewable energy targets
• Joshua Roberts, Power to the people? Implications of the Clean Energy Package for the role of community ownership in Europe’s energy transition
• Theodoros G. Iliopoulos Matteo Fermeglia Bernard Vanheusden, The EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework: How net metering slips through its net
• Original Articles
• Ellycia R. Harrould‐Kolieb, The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: A governing framework for ocean acidification?
• Jingjing Zhao, The role of international organizations in preventing conflicts between the SPS Agreement and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• Laura Movilla Pateiro, Advances and uncertainties in compliance measures for users from the Nagoya Protocol in the European Union
• Alessandra Guida, The 2017 Fidenato case and the 2015 Directive: The curious case of GMOs in Europe
• Case Note
• Rafael Tamayo‐Álvarez, David Aven v Costa Rica: A step forward towards investor accountability for environmental harm?

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 29, no. 1, April 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Water Protection and Armed Conflicts in International Law
• Carl Bruch, Erika Weinthal, & Jessica Troell, Water law and governance in post‐conflict settings
• Daniëlla Dam‐de Jong, Building a sustainable peace: How peace processes shape and are shaped by the international legal framework for the governance of natural resources
• Mara Tignino & Öykü Irmakkesen, Water in peace operations: The case of Haiti
• Bjørn‐Oliver Magsig, Water security: A litmus test for international law
• Marco Pertile & Sondra Faccio, Access to water in Donbass and Crimea: Attacks against water infrastructures and the blockade of the North Crimea Canal
• Marja Lehto, Armed conflicts and the environment: The International Law Commission’s new draft principles
• Original Articles
• Olivia Woolley, What would ecological climate change law look like? Developing a method for analysing the international climate change regime from an ecological perspective
• Emily Webster, Transnational legal processes, the EU and RED II: Strengthening the global governance of bioenergy
• Carlos Soria‐Rodríguez, The European environmental regulation of marine renewable energies
• Beatrice Garske, Jessica Stubenrauch, & Felix Ekardt, Sustainable phosphorus management in European agricultural and environmental law
• Zachary Allen Roy Phillips, Barbuda’s community title to land: A furtherance of the Convention on Biological Diversity?
• Case Notes
• Lorenzo Squintani, Balancing nature and economic interests in the European Union: On the concept of mitigation under the Habitats Directive

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 28, no. 3, November 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: New Frontiers in Ocean Environmental Governance
• Beatriz Martinez Romera & Katrina M. Wyman, New frontiers in ocean environmental governance: Private actors, public goods
• Alex G. Oude Elferink, Exploring the future of the institutional landscape of the oceans beyond national jurisdiction
• Ronán Long, Restoring marine environmental damage: Can the Costa Rica v Nicaragua compensation case influence the BBNJ negotiations?
• Felicity Deane, Anna Huggins, & Md Saiful Karim, Measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification of shipping emissions: Evaluating transparency and answerability
• Meinhard Doelle & Aldo Chircop, Decarbonizing international shipping: An appraisal of the IMO's Initial Strategy
• Jesper Jarl Fanø, Enforcement of the 2020 sulphur limit for marine fuels: Restrictions and possibilities for port States to impose fines under UNCLOS
• Nikolaos Giannopoulos, Global environmental regulation of offshore energy production: Searching for legal standards in ocean governance
• Makoto Seta, The contribution of the International Organization for Standardization to ocean governance
• Solène Guggisberg, The roles of nongovernmental actors in improving compliance with fisheries regulations
• Original Articles
• Matthew Volk, Spiegl Arie Trouwborst, & Ingrid Natasha Visser, Mission creep in the application of wildlife law: The progressive dilution of legal requirements regarding a wild‐born orca kept for ‘research’ purposes
• Florian Rabitz, Gene drives and the international biodiversity regime
• Case Notes
• Kathleen Garnett, Hold your pipettes: The European Court of Justice's findings in Confédération Paysanne & Others stirs GMOtions

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 28, no. 2, July 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Original Articles
• Benoit Mayer, Interpreting States’ general obligations on climate change mitigation: A methodological review
• María Eugenia Recio, Dancing like a toddler? The Green Climate Fund and REDD+ international rule‐making
• Belén Olmos Giupponi, Fostering environmental democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: An analysis of the Regional Agreement on Environmental Access Rights
• Caiphas Brewsters Soyapi, The courts and the constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment in Uganda
• Refia Kaya, Environmental vulnerability, age and the promises of anti‐age discrimination law
• Xiaoou Zheng, Key legal challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol: The case of China
• Andri G. Wibisana, The many faces of strict liability in Indonesia's wildfire litigation
• Sara Kymenvaara Lasse Baaner Helle Tegner Anker Laura Leino Antti Belinskij, Variations on the same theme: Environmental objectives of the Water Framework Directive in environmental permitting in the Nordic countries
• Minna Pappila, Summer loggings and bird protection: On regulation and derogations
• Case Note
• Ricardo Abello‐Galvis & Walter Arevalo‐Ramirez, Inter‐American Court of Human Rights Advisory Opinion OC‐23/17: Jurisdictional, procedural and substantive implications of human rights duties in the context of environmental protection

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 28, no. 1, April 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Global Pact for the Environment and Gaps in International Environmental Law
• Yann Aguila & Jorge E. Viñuales, A Global Pact for the Environment: Conceptual foundations
• Christina Voigt, How a ‘Global Pact for the Environment’ could add value to international environmental law
• Duncan French & Louis J. Kotzé, ‘Towards a Global Pact for the Environment’: International environmental law's factual, technical and (unmentionable) normative gaps
• Susan Biniaz, The UNGA Resolution on a ‘Global Pact for the Environment’: A chance to put the horse before the cart
• John H. Knox, The Global Pact for the Environment: At the crossroads of human rights and the environment
• Edgar Fernández Fernández & Claire Malwé, The emergence of the ‘planetary boundaries’ concept in international environmental law: A proposal for a framework convention
• Regular Articles
• Helmut Philipp Aust, The shifting role of cities in the global climate change regime: From Paris to Pittsburgh and back?
• Eloise Scotford & Stephen Minas, Probing the hidden depths of climate law: Analysing national climate change legislation
• Benoit Mayer, Environmental assessments in the context of climate change: The role of the UN Economic Commission for Europe
• Case Note
• Jonathan Verschuuren, The State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation: The Hague Court of Appeal upholds judgment requiring the Netherlands to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 27, no. 3, November 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Plastics Regulation
• Karen Raubenheimer, Alistair McIlgorm, & Nilüfer Oral, Towards an improved international framework to govern the life cycle of plastics
• Elizabeth A. Kirk & Naporn Popattanachai, Marine plastics: Fragmentation, effectiveness and legitimacy in international lawmaking
• Giulia Carlini & Konstantin Kleine, Advancing the international regulation of plastic pollution beyond the United Nations Environment Assembly resolution on marine litter and microplastics
• Linda Finska & Julie Gjørtz Howden, Troubled waters – Where is the bridge? Confronting marine plastic pollution from international watercourses
• Esther Kentin & Heidi Kaarto, An EU ban on microplastics in cosmetic products and the right to regulate
• Thomas J. de Römph & Geert Van Calster, REACH in a circular economy: The obstacles for plastics recyclers and regulators
• Regular Articles
• Louis J. Kotzé & Wendy Muzangaza, Constitutional international environmental law for the Anthropocene?
• Alexander Zahar, Implementation of the polluter pays principle in China
• Arie Trouwborst, Wolves not welcome? Zoning for large carnivore conservation and management under the Bern Convention and EU Habitats Directive
• Abdullah Al Arif, Exploring the legal status and key features of ecosystem‐based fisheries management in international fisheries law
• Lisa Benjamin, Adelle Thomas, & Rueanna Haynes, An ‘Islands’ COP’? Loss and damage at COP23
• Case Note
• Nicolas de Sadeleer, Preliminary ruling on the compatibility of taxation of superstores with the right to freedom of establishment and State aid law: Case C‐233/16, ANGED

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 27, no. 2, July 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Original Articles
• Vito De Lucia, A critical interrogation of the relation between the ecosystem approach and ecosystem services
• Shawkat Alam & Sheikh Noor Mohammad, Applying the ecosystem approach to the Sundarbans of Bangladesh: Possibilities and challenges
• Benoit Mayer, Obligations of conduct in the international law on climate change: A defence
• Edwin Alblas, Conflicting goals and mixed rationales: A closer look at the objectives of EU environmental law in light of the Anthropocene
• Viktor Weber, Uncertain liability and stagnating CCS deployment in the European Union: Is it the Member States’ turn?
• Janja Hojnik, Ecological modernization through servitization: EU regulatory support for sustainable product–service systems
• Maria Chochorelou & Carlos Espaliu Berdud, Sustainable development in new generation FTAs: Could arbitrators further the principle through ISDS?
• Andrew Craig Blackmore, Rediscovering the origins and inclusion of the public trust doctrine in South African environmental law: A speculative analysis
• Case Note
• Melissa Powers, Juliana v United States: The next frontier in US climate mitigation?

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 27, no. 1, April 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Arctic Environmental Governance
• Sabaa Ahmad Khan & Kati Kulovesi, Black carbon and the Arctic: Global problem‐solving through the nexus of science, law and space
• Layla Hughes, Relationships with Arctic indigenous peoples: To what extent has prior informed consent become a norm?
• Stefan Kirchner & Pirjo Kleemola‐Juntunen, Dumping and oil pollution: Regulatory approaches for vessel operations in an ice‐free Central Arctic Ocean
• Dorottya Bognar, Russia and the polar marine environment: The negotiation of the environmental protection measures of the mandatory Polar Code
• Seita Romppanen, Arctic climate governance via EU law on black carbon?
• Nengye Liu, Will China build a green Belt and Road in the Arctic?
• Konstantia Koutouki, Katherine Lofts & Giselle Davidian, A rights‐based approach to indigenous women and gender inequities in resource development in northern Canada
• Regular Article
• Natalie L. Dobson, The EU's conditioning of the ‘extraterritorial’ carbon footprint: A call for an integrated approach in trade law discourse
• Case Note
  • Yoshifumi Tanaka, The South China Sea arbitration: Environmental obligations under the Law of the Sea Convention