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Coordinating UK trade and climate policy ambitions: A legislative and policy analysis 协调英国贸易和气候政策目标:立法和政策分析
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920960349
Emily Lydgate, C. Anthony
The UK Government has pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 but also champion open multilateral trade and pursue new trade relationships with geographically distant partners. The dynamism of policymaking in both areas, as the UK leaves the EU, provides a useful case study for the larger question of how to reconcile liberal trade policy with a net-zero target. After setting out the relevance of trade policy to the climate target, we examine areas at their intersection: current and proposed UK green subsidies, regulatory trade barriers, potential carbon border adjustment, fossil fuel subsidies and free trade agreements. We apply two analytical tests: compliance with relevant World Trade Organisation obligations and coherence with the net-zero climate target. The analysis is hindered by uncertainty, primarily regarding the extent of future global climate ambition, but there are clear areas in which the UK could strengthen its approach to climate change mitigation without undermining its commitment to open trade. Barring a major increase in global ambition, achieving the net-zero target will, however, likely require new trade restrictions. The implication is that, rather than being situated at the margins, the climate target must comprise a central objective of trade strategy.
英国政府承诺到2050年实现净零碳排放,但也支持开放的多边贸易,并寻求与地理位置遥远的伙伴建立新的贸易关系。随着英国退出欧盟(EU),这两个领域的政策制定活力为如何调和自由贸易政策与净零排放目标这一更大问题提供了一个有用的案例研究。在阐述了贸易政策与气候目标的相关性之后,我们研究了它们的交叉点:当前和拟议中的英国绿色补贴、监管贸易壁垒、潜在的碳边界调整、化石燃料补贴和自由贸易协定。我们采用了两项分析测试:遵守世界贸易组织(wto)的相关义务,以及与净零气候目标的一致性。分析受到不确定性的阻碍,主要是关于未来全球气候雄心的程度,但英国可以在不损害其开放贸易承诺的情况下加强其减缓气候变化的方法的明确领域。然而,除非全球雄心大幅增加,否则实现净零排放目标可能需要新的贸易限制。其含义是,气候目标必须包含贸易战略的中心目标,而不是处于边缘位置。
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引用次数: 1
The relationship between the principle of sustainable development and the human right to a clean and healthy environment in Kenya’s legal context: An appraisal 在肯尼亚的法律范围内,可持续发展原则与享有清洁和健康环境的人权之间的关系:评价
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920952584
Rose Mwanza
Kenya’s legal system is characterised by a plurality of constitutional norms that are relevant for governing the relationship between the environment and the people. Key among these are the principle of sustainable development (SD) and the human right to a clean and healthy environment (HRHE). Both norms were constitutionalised in 2010, a development that represents what scholars have termed environmental constitutionalism and sustainability constitutionalism, respectively. The constitutionalisation of the principle of SD and the HRHE is a welcome development which has the potential to fill some gaps that existed in the old constitutional arrangement. At the same time, this development is set against a backdrop of critical debates that question their effectiveness in regard to environmental protection. This article demonstrates that the two norms have developed in a manner that is responsive to the salient criticism raised against them. Moreover, courts in Kenya have construed them as complementary norms. Specifically, courts in Kenya have applied the HRHE to clarify the meaning and scope of the environmental prong of SD and construed the duty to pursue ecologically SD (a component of SD) as encompassing the obligation to protect ecological processes that support all life.
肯尼亚法律制度的特点是有多种宪法规范,这些规范与管理环境与人民之间的关系有关。其中最关键的是可持续发展原则和享有清洁和健康环境的人权。这两个规范都在2010年被宪法化,这一发展分别代表了学者们所称的环境宪政和可持续性宪政。SD原则和HRHE的宪法化是一个可喜的发展,有可能填补旧宪法安排中存在的一些空白。与此同时,这一发展是在对其在环境保护方面的有效性提出质疑的批评性辩论的背景下进行的。本文表明,这两种规范的发展方式是对针对它们提出的突出批评的回应。此外,肯尼亚的法院将它们解释为补充规范。具体而言,肯尼亚的法院已经运用《人权与人权法》来澄清可持续发展的环境方面的含义和范围,并将追求生态可持续发展的义务(可持续发展的一个组成部分)解释为包括保护支持所有生命的生态过程的义务。
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引用次数: 2
The chase for legal timber: Developments in the commercial trade of timber in Ghana 对合法木材的追求:加纳木材商业贸易的发展
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920934704
Clement Kojo Akapame
The quest for timber and timber resources and its corollary effects on forest degradation has in the last decade contributed to a series of concerted local and international interventions aimed at addressing the situation. These interventions have taken the character of domestic policies, international agreements and pacts and to some extent, domestic legislative reforms. The plethora of interventions have created a horde of laws and agreements with varying scopes and applications, multiple institutions with interlocked and overlapping responsibilities and uncoordinated and often undocumented practice in the commercial trade of timber. The focus of this article is to prod through the domestic and international legal and institutional architecture on the regulation of the trade of timber and timber resources. The article hopes to unearth the challenges in complying with these obligations and propose recommendations on the way forward.
在过去十年中,对木材和木材资源的追求及其对森林退化的必然影响促成了一系列旨在处理这种情况的协调一致的地方和国际干预措施。这些干预具有国内政策、国际协定和协定以及在某种程度上具有国内立法改革的性质。过多的干预产生了一大堆范围和适用范围各不相同的法律和协定,产生了责任相互关联和重叠的多个机构,以及木材商业贸易中不协调和往往没有记录的做法。本文的重点是通过对木材和木材资源贸易的监管的国内和国际法律和体制架构来推动。本文希望揭示在遵守这些义务时所面临的挑战,并就今后的道路提出建议。
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引用次数: 1
Quarterly Comment by Trinity Chambers: Trinity Chambers, Newcastle Trinity Chambers季度评论:Trinity Chambers,纽卡斯尔
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920950048
A. Richardson, M. Crowe, M. Hopkins, J. Cottrell, Shada Mellor
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引用次数: 0
Book review: Environmental Law Essentials, Edinburgh Law Essentials 书评:《环境法要义》、《爱丁堡法律要义》
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920958204
Anne-Michelle Slater
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引用次数: 0
The first German climate case 德国第一起气候案件
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920948626
Petra Minnerop
This article explains the first German climate case filed against the Federal Government in the Berlin Administrative Court in 2018 and decided in October 2019. The article identifies and examines the key elements of the decision of the Berlin Court and it places the legal issues of the case within the relevant framework of German administrative court procedure law, administrative law and constitutional law. The case evolved around the legally binding force of a cabinet decision of the Federal Government which laid down the German greenhouse gas emissons reduction target for 2020. Despite the fact that the application was dismissed for lack of standing, some important legal developments can be derived from the judgment, especially in relation to justiciability of the case and the state’s duty to protect fundamental rights under the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz) in the climate change context. Just after the judgment was delivered, the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) adopted the first Federal Climate Protection Act in November 2019 and thus defined the state’s new climate targets in statutory form. This changed the legal landscape and claimants consequently abstained from appealing the judgment. However, the German Constitutional Court now has the opportunity to clarify further some of the legal issues that arose in this first German climate case from applying ‘traditional’ legal concepts to the challenge of climate change, if it decides to hear the constitutional complaint which was filed in 2020 against the Federal Climate Protection Act.
本文解释了2018年在柏林行政法院针对联邦政府提起的第一起德国气候案件,该案件于2019年10月作出裁决。本文确定并审查了柏林法院判决的关键要素,并将案件的法律问题置于德国行政法院程序法、行政法和宪法的相关框架内。该案围绕联邦政府内阁决定的法律约束力展开,该决定制定了德国2020年温室气体减排目标。尽管该申请因缺乏法律地位而被驳回,但从判决中可以得出一些重要的法律发展,特别是在案件的可诉性和国家在气候变化背景下根据德国基本法保护基本权利的义务方面。就在判决发布后不久,德国联邦议会(Bundestag)于2019年11月通过了第一部《联邦气候保护法》,从而以法定形式确定了该州的新气候目标。这改变了法律格局,索赔人因此放弃了对判决的上诉。然而,如果德国宪法法院决定审理2020年针对《联邦气候保护法》提起的宪法诉讼,那么它现在有机会进一步澄清在德国第一起气候案件中因将“传统”法律概念应用于气候变化挑战而产生的一些法律问题。
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引用次数: 1
The networks of human rights and climate change: The State of the Netherlands v Stichting Urgenda, Supreme Court of the Netherlands, 20 December 2019 (19/00135) 人权与气候变化网络:荷兰国家诉紧急议程基金会案,荷兰最高法院,2019年12月20日(19/00135)
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920953655
O. Pedersen
Climate change litigators are increasingly relying on a range of different jurisdictional avenues and legal regimes. The recent Urgenda decision by the Dutch Supreme Court provides a surprisingly rare snapshot of the relevance of human rights law to climate change litigation. Focusing on the Supreme Court's reliance on the environmental rights case law from the ECHR, this case note argues that climate change and human rights adjudications takes the form of an adjudicatory network. This network creates spaces for domestic courts to develop contingent responses to emerging climate change claims.
气候变化诉讼律师越来越依赖于一系列不同的司法途径和法律制度。荷兰最高法院最近对“紧急议程”的裁决提供了人权法与气候变化诉讼相关性的罕见快照。本案例说明以最高法院对欧洲人权法院环境权利判例法的依赖为重点,认为气候变化和人权裁决采用审判网络的形式。这一网络为国内法院制定应对新出现的气候变化索赔的应急措施创造了空间。
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引用次数: 2
Climate change governance: An analysis of the climate change legal regime in Kenya 气候变化治理:肯尼亚气候变化法律制度分析
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920958398
Meissy Janet Naeku
Kenya’s climate change legal environment is considered progressive, with the country being one of the first in the African continent to enact robust climate law and policies that guide national and local action. The presence of a comprehensive legal regime is meant to provide an opportunity for the country to coordinate climate change issues in a more structured manner. Despite this, Kenya continues to grapple with challenges presented by climate change, which have increased the country’s vulnerability to biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and immense impacts on livelihoods and infrastructure in both rural and urban areas. Climate-related disasters and extreme events have plagued the most vulnerable communities, particularly with the most affected being Indigenous People and marginalised local communities. It is against this backdrop that the extent to which procedural mechanisms and the substantive legal frameworks produced needs to be reflected upon, to determine their interaction and feedback with the ongoing climate crisis and their sufficiency to adequately deliver climate justice across various levels of climate change law implementation. As a starting point, this article builds a comprehensive understanding on the existing climate laws in Kenya and explores how this translates to climate resilience building. The coherences, practicalities and implementation dynamics of the legal instruments are analysed to provide a clear picture of how the country responds to international, regional and national expectations and obligations. We argue that the adequacy of climate instruments in Kenya has not satisfactorily translated into climate resilience. Although most of the instruments are informed by sustainability principles for climate justice and resilience building, they still face diverse socio-economic and political dynamics that impede its effective implementation.
肯尼亚的气候变化法律环境被认为是进步的,该国是非洲大陆第一个颁布强有力的气候法律和政策,指导国家和地方行动的国家之一。一个全面的法律制度的存在意味着为国家提供一个以更有组织的方式协调气候变化问题的机会。尽管如此,肯尼亚仍在继续应对气候变化带来的挑战,气候变化增加了肯尼亚面对生物多样性丧失、生态系统退化的脆弱性,并对农村和城市地区的生计和基础设施产生了巨大影响。与气候有关的灾害和极端事件一直困扰着最脆弱的社区,特别是受影响最大的是土著人民和被边缘化的当地社区。正是在这种背景下,需要反思程序机制和实体法律框架产生的程度,以确定它们与正在进行的气候危机的相互作用和反馈,以及它们是否足以在气候变化法律实施的各个层面充分实现气候正义。作为起点,本文全面了解肯尼亚现有的气候法律,并探讨如何将其转化为气候适应能力建设。分析了法律文书的一致性、实用性和执行动态,以便清楚地了解该国如何响应国际、区域和国家的期望和义务。我们认为,肯尼亚气候工具的充分性并没有令人满意地转化为气候适应能力。尽管大多数文书都以气候正义和复原力建设的可持续性原则为依据,但它们仍然面临着阻碍其有效实施的各种社会经济和政治动态。
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引用次数: 5
Nourishing and protecting our urban ‘green’ space in a post-pandemic world 在大流行后的世界中滋养和保护我们的城市“绿色”空间
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-08-17 DOI: 10.1177/1461452920934667
Christopher N. Rodgers
‘Green spaces’ provide important cultural ecosystem services in our towns and cities. ‘Green’ space may come in many forms – for example parks, village greens, urban commons, or just neglected and undeveloped wasteland. But all of it is important as it can provide much needed space for open air recreation and exercise in crowded urban areas. The covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown has shown just how important it is for us to have easy access to open space for recreation and exercise. But much of our green space is, in an age of austerity, under threat. Covid-19 has shown that we need to reappraise planning policy for the designation and protection of new areas of green space in our urban environment; to better protect existing open space, including village greens and commons; and to seek to rebalance planning policy to ensure that the drive for new housing does not take place at the expense of ensuring that adequate green space is provided for existing and future communities.
“绿色空间”为我们的城镇提供重要的文化生态系统服务。“绿色”空间可能有多种形式——例如公园、乡村绿地、城市公共场所,或者只是被忽视和未开发的荒地。但所有这些都很重要,因为它可以为拥挤的城市地区提供急需的露天娱乐和锻炼空间。covid-19大流行和相关的封锁表明,方便地获得娱乐和锻炼的开放空间对我们来说是多么重要。但是,在这个经济紧缩的时代,我们的大部分绿色空间都受到了威胁。2019冠状病毒病表明,我们需要重新评估规划政策,以指定和保护城市环境中的新绿地;更好地保护现有休憩用地,包括乡村绿地和公地;并寻求重新平衡规划政策,以确保新住房的动力不会以确保为现有和未来社区提供足够的绿色空间为代价。
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引用次数: 16
Abandonment/decommissioning under Nigerian legal regimes: A comparative analysis 尼日利亚法律制度下的弃船/退役:比较分析
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/14614529211006074
B. F. Anyatang, B. Kooffreh
The overall objective of this article is to analyse critically the legal instruments that regulate decommissioning of onshore and offshore platforms in the Nigerian Petroleum Industry vis-à-vis other jurisdictions such as The United States of America (USA) and United Kingdom (UK) with a view to making requisite recommendations for improvement in the Nigerian Petroleum Industry. This article in its introductory part will be devoted to conceptual clarifications of decommissioning and abandonment and differences (if any). Part two is the critical analysis of legislations on decommissioning in Nigeria. Part three is also a critical analysis on legal regimes and practices on decommissioning in other jurisdictions such as USA and UK. Part four is a comparative analysis of legislations and decommissioning practices in Nigeria and other jurisdiction. Part five consists of findings/recommendations made during the research. In the end, conclusions are drawn, part of which is a call for proactive actions by megacorporation and the Nigerian government in the sphere of timeous decommissioning of obsolete and failed platforms, enactment and, or, review of obsolete legislations regulating decommissioning as well as fulfilment of obligations under multilateral environmental treaties that regulate decommissioning and sustainable environmental management and protection.
本文的总体目标是批判性地分析规范尼日利亚石油工业陆上和海上平台退役的法律文书,与-à-vis美利坚合众国(USA)和英国(UK)等其他司法管辖区进行比较,以期为尼日利亚石油工业的改进提出必要的建议。本文在导论部分将致力于对退役和放弃及其差异(如果有的话)的概念澄清。第二部分是对尼日利亚退役立法的批判性分析。第三部分还对美国和英国等其他司法管辖区退役的法律制度和实践进行了批判性分析。第四部分是对尼日利亚和其他司法管辖区退役立法和退役实践的比较分析。第五部分包括研究期间提出的发现/建议。最后,得出结论,其中一部分是呼吁大型公司和尼日利亚政府在及时退役过时和失败的平台,制定和或审查过时的退役立法以及履行多边环境条约规定的退役和可持续环境管理和保护义务方面采取积极行动。
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