Environmental Law and Jurisprudence Session 1 and 2.pdf
Table of concepts
- Environmental law & international environmental law
- History of International Environmental Law
- Stockholm declaration
- UNFCCC
- Kyoto protocol
- UN COP
- Paris Agreement
- Clean environment as a human right
- The European Green Deal
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- Finance is a big part of the Paris Agreement
- Capacity building for developing countries is important.
- Some times the funds flow to things that don't make sense.
- Even with things we think are green by default are further limited with the taxonomy of the paris agreement and other regulations.
Emissions keep rising in absolute terms because the economy keeps growing. The only way towards a sustainable future is SDG 12, about degrowth and reduce the consumption culture.
The EU is considered a supranational organization. It's not a federal state.
If one country says "we are not doing this"
Environmental law in the EU is not really sustainability law, it's meant to protect the common resources of the EU.
It was orginally meant to protect the quality of certain resources and how to react to legal cases.
EU law primacy
The EU law primacy means that the bodies of the European Green Deal are the floor and not the cealling. Member states can mandate and regulate beyond but not bellow.
Investing in smarter, more sustainable transport is also about reducing individual ways of transportation and making it more massive.
The problems of agriculture
- Monoculture
- Nutritents
- Soil
- Social aspects
- GMOs - Organic
- Yield / Food waste
- Meat
The previous law was about 2030 climate neutrality.