Environmental law and just transition under the EU Green Deal
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Online event
Environmental law and just transition under the EU Green Deal
About this event
Speaker
Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington, Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University Law School
Abstract
In the months before the Covid-19 pandemic assumed centre stage in global and European law and policy, the European Union took extraordinary strides toward advancing climate commitments by adopting the European Green Deal. Since March 2020, much of the focus of the European Green Deal has shifted to methods of incorporating pandemic responses and post-pandemic recovery measures that also advance the climate agenda, yet there are a number of laws and policies which have a significant impact on environmental law and sustainable development in areas outside the pandemic. This seminar will focus on the ways in which the concept of just transitions has been adopted and advanced through the European Green Deal and the environmental laws and policies adopted under its auspices. The seminar will emphasise the roll of the Just Transition Fund and similar monetary mechanisms for supporting regions in the European Union most impacted by efforts to transition away from high-carbon energy as well as the opportunities for just transitions implementation through everything from policies on hydrogen to building practices to the terms of the 2021 European Climate Law.
Biography
Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington is a Lecturer in Law (Environment) at Lancaster University Law School. She serves as Director of Studies, International Law Association Colombian Branch, a member of the IUCN and a member of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment. Dr. Harrington was the 2018 - 2019 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters, as well as International Organizations and the Law (Routledge 2018), International Law and Global Governance: Treaty Regimes and Sustainable Development Goals Implementation (Routledge 2021), and Just Transitions and the Future of Law and Regulation (forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan 2022).
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Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars: Where Environmental Law Meets Economic Law
Objective: Our sustainability lunchtime seminars will create a venue to study the interaction between EU environmental law and EU economic law. In light of the European Green Deal framework, our objective is twofold. On the one hand, we intend to analyse how economic law could evolve to better integrate environmental rules, principles, and objectives. On the other hand, we intend to examine how environmental law could better address economic-law challenges and realities. To reach sustainability and meet EU Green Deal objectives, there must be a close interaction between environmental law and economic law; for now, these two disciplines have very different scopes and functions.
Methodology: Through our selection of topics and speakers, we intend to find new channels of connection between EU environmental law and EU economic law. To do so, we will combine two approaches. Through a substantive approach we will focus on the correlation between environmental law and specific economic policies, for example, consumer law, competition law, investment law, corporate law, trade law, and finance. By means of a sectoral approach will examine specific topics that demand integration between environmental and economic law (e.g., 5G, and deforestation).
Format: Our online lunchtime seminars will be held once a month throughout 2022 from 12:30 to 13:30 (Luxembourg time) and include presentations given by young researchers, renowned professors, and expert practitioners. Our working language will be English. All interested people, both within and without academia, are encouraged to attend our online seminars.
Output: EU Law Live will publish two Weekend Editions (one in July and the other in December 2022), setting out the key ideas and main proposals arising out of our Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars.
Organisation: Alessandra Donati, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg and Attorney at Law in Italy and France will organise our Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars. She can be reached at alessandra.donati@uni.lu.
In collaboration with the Belgio-Luxembourg Hub of ELI (European Law Institute) and ALDE (Association Luxembourgeoise pour le droit de l’environnement).
EU Law Live will be the media partner of the Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars.
Click here to find out more about our Sustainability Lunchtime Seminars.
