Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Report articles |
| Title (Primary) | Environmental law in transformation – key developments under the European Green Deal |
| Title (Secondary) | Environment & Climate Change Law 2023: Practical cross-border insights into environment and climate change law |
| Author | Jendrośka, J.; Reese, M. |
| Publisher | Abrahams, D.; Gillett, T. |
| Source Titel | International Comparative Legal Guides |
| Year | 2023 |
| Department | UPR |
| Page From | 7 |
| Page To | 15 |
| Language | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes |
| Abstract | In December 2019, the newly appointed EU Commission (Commission) announced a strong shift of policy priorities and a policy roadmap towards environmental sustainability labelled as the “European Green Deal”. In its fundamental Green Deal Communication (COM/2019/640) (GDC), the Commission pledged to “reset its commitment to tackling climate and environment- related challenges that is this generation’s defining task”, and to pursue “a new growth strategy” that aims to transform the European Union (EU) into a sustainable, resource-efficient, carbon-neutral economy by 2050 while promising that all “EU initiatives live up to a green oath to ‘do no harm’”. Moreover, the Green Deal aims to preserve and enhance the EU’s natural capital as well as to protect the health and well-being of citizens from environment-related impacts. To these ends, the Commission proclaimed “a set of deeply transformative policies”, and in the meantime has supplemented this general ambition with a set of sector strategies, action plans and legislative proposals. In 2021 and 2022 in particular, the Commission released a plethora of legislative initiatives addressing nearly all fields of environmental law, and going far beyond traditional environmental regulation towards, inter alia, the greening of energy, agriculture, trade, and finance. In this contribution, we provide a brief overview of the Green Deal Agenda and its progress, and take a closer look at key developments in legal implementation especially in the fields of “climate & energy transition”, “industry & circular economy”, and “sustainable spending and investment”. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=27008 |
| Jendrośka, J., Reese, M. (2023): Environmental law in transformation – key developments under the European Green Deal In: Abrahams, D., Gillett, T. (eds.) Environment & Climate Change Law 2023: Practical cross-border insights into environment and climate change law International Comparative Legal Guides Global Legal Group, London, p. 7 - 15 |
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