RECIEL
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Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law.
A journal bridging academic and professional spheres in the areas of international, European and comparative #EnvironmentalLaw
A journal bridging academic and professional spheres in the areas of international, European and comparative #EnvironmentalLaw
Now available #openaccess in @recieljournal.bsky.social: Harris & Ciscato map barriers & facilitators to scaling nature restoration in Italy under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (2024/1991).
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#NatureRestoration #EUlaw #Italy
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#NatureRestoration #EUlaw #Italy
September 30, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Now available #openaccess in @recieljournal.bsky.social: Harris & Ciscato map barriers & facilitators to scaling nature restoration in Italy under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (2024/1991).
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
#NatureRestoration #EUlaw #Italy
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#NatureRestoration #EUlaw #Italy
New in @recieljournal.bsky.social: Cirkovic & Pedersen compare Climate Advisory Committees in DK, FI, DE & UK. Despite different designs, CAC advice often stalls when it hits entrenched economic interests (agri, forestry, aviation, transport).
Read here #openaccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Read here #openaccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
September 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
New in @recieljournal.bsky.social: Cirkovic & Pedersen compare Climate Advisory Committees in DK, FI, DE & UK. Despite different designs, CAC advice often stalls when it hits entrenched economic interests (agri, forestry, aviation, transport).
Read here #openaccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Read here #openaccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
How are China and the EU experimenting with hydrogen regulation?
Xiaohan Gong compares China’s localised, devolution-based experimentation vs the EU’s centrally framed, derogation-based model and its iimplications for legal certainty, market creation and innovation.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Xiaohan Gong compares China’s localised, devolution-based experimentation vs the EU’s centrally framed, derogation-based model and its iimplications for legal certainty, market creation and innovation.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
September 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
How are China and the EU experimenting with hydrogen regulation?
Xiaohan Gong compares China’s localised, devolution-based experimentation vs the EU’s centrally framed, derogation-based model and its iimplications for legal certainty, market creation and innovation.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Xiaohan Gong compares China’s localised, devolution-based experimentation vs the EU’s centrally framed, derogation-based model and its iimplications for legal certainty, market creation and innovation.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Now in #EarlyView @recieljournal.bsky.social
When corporate law meets climate loss: Preston Wong examines the rise of shareholder-led climate litigation across the UK, EU, US & Australia, and the various pathways and hurdles faced in these claims.
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When corporate law meets climate loss: Preston Wong examines the rise of shareholder-led climate litigation across the UK, EU, US & Australia, and the various pathways and hurdles faced in these claims.
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September 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Now in #EarlyView @recieljournal.bsky.social
When corporate law meets climate loss: Preston Wong examines the rise of shareholder-led climate litigation across the UK, EU, US & Australia, and the various pathways and hurdles faced in these claims.
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When corporate law meets climate loss: Preston Wong examines the rise of shareholder-led climate litigation across the UK, EU, US & Australia, and the various pathways and hurdles faced in these claims.
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How can legal doctrine support grassroots-led climate mobilisation?
Alan Żukowski’s new article analyses the RAS case in Poland and introduces critical doctrinal analysis as a method for examining strategic climate litigation within democratic backsliding.
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Alan Żukowski’s new article analyses the RAS case in Poland and introduces critical doctrinal analysis as a method for examining strategic climate litigation within democratic backsliding.
Read: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
July 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
How can legal doctrine support grassroots-led climate mobilisation?
Alan Żukowski’s new article analyses the RAS case in Poland and introduces critical doctrinal analysis as a method for examining strategic climate litigation within democratic backsliding.
Read: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Alan Żukowski’s new article analyses the RAS case in Poland and introduces critical doctrinal analysis as a method for examining strategic climate litigation within democratic backsliding.
Read: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Can private actors fund biodiversity restoration at scale?
A new RECIEL article analyses China’s efforts to align CBD restoration goals with national law, through land exchanges, PPPs & public-welfare models, while warning of ecological trade-offs.
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A new RECIEL article analyses China’s efforts to align CBD restoration goals with national law, through land exchanges, PPPs & public-welfare models, while warning of ecological trade-offs.
Read now: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
July 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Can private actors fund biodiversity restoration at scale?
A new RECIEL article analyses China’s efforts to align CBD restoration goals with national law, through land exchanges, PPPs & public-welfare models, while warning of ecological trade-offs.
Read now: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
A new RECIEL article analyses China’s efforts to align CBD restoration goals with national law, through land exchanges, PPPs & public-welfare models, while warning of ecological trade-offs.
Read now: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Can the courtroom become the frontline of global plastics accountability?
A new @recieljournal.bsky.social article by Josselin Stone tracks how litigation is reshaping environmental justice, one case at a time.
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A new @recieljournal.bsky.social article by Josselin Stone tracks how litigation is reshaping environmental justice, one case at a time.
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July 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Can the courtroom become the frontline of global plastics accountability?
A new @recieljournal.bsky.social article by Josselin Stone tracks how litigation is reshaping environmental justice, one case at a time.
📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
A new @recieljournal.bsky.social article by Josselin Stone tracks how litigation is reshaping environmental justice, one case at a time.
📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
How should cultivated meat be regulated: as a fast track to sustainability, or a moment for deeper food system reflection?
This new RECIEL article by Hope Johnson and Alessandro Monaco maps legal responses across five jurisdictions and unpacks the values shaping them.
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This new RECIEL article by Hope Johnson and Alessandro Monaco maps legal responses across five jurisdictions and unpacks the values shaping them.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
How should cultivated meat be regulated: as a fast track to sustainability, or a moment for deeper food system reflection?
This new RECIEL article by Hope Johnson and Alessandro Monaco maps legal responses across five jurisdictions and unpacks the values shaping them.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
This new RECIEL article by Hope Johnson and Alessandro Monaco maps legal responses across five jurisdictions and unpacks the values shaping them.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
What does ‘stability’ mean for climate law?
Sai Ma, Simon Schaub & Joan Enguer explore Spain’s renewable energy reforms & investor disputes to unpack how legal & political science lenses diverge on ‘regulatory stability’ and why that matters for the energy transition.
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Sai Ma, Simon Schaub & Joan Enguer explore Spain’s renewable energy reforms & investor disputes to unpack how legal & political science lenses diverge on ‘regulatory stability’ and why that matters for the energy transition.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
What does ‘stability’ mean for climate law?
Sai Ma, Simon Schaub & Joan Enguer explore Spain’s renewable energy reforms & investor disputes to unpack how legal & political science lenses diverge on ‘regulatory stability’ and why that matters for the energy transition.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Sai Ma, Simon Schaub & Joan Enguer explore Spain’s renewable energy reforms & investor disputes to unpack how legal & political science lenses diverge on ‘regulatory stability’ and why that matters for the energy transition.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
How open is the EU when preparing for UN climate talks? Tuula Honkonen (@cceel.bsky.social) explores the tension between strategic secrecy and civil society participation in the EU’s climate diplomacy.
Newly published, #openaccess:
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Newly published, #openaccess:
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July 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
How open is the EU when preparing for UN climate talks? Tuula Honkonen (@cceel.bsky.social) explores the tension between strategic secrecy and civil society participation in the EU’s climate diplomacy.
Newly published, #openaccess:
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Newly published, #openaccess:
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How should we understand ‘meaningful participation’ in EU climate governance?
Ricarda Faber (@giz.de), Deyana Kocher & Matthias Duwe (@ecologic.eu) critically examine multilevel climate and energy dialogues under Article 11 of the Governance Regulation.
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Ricarda Faber (@giz.de), Deyana Kocher & Matthias Duwe (@ecologic.eu) critically examine multilevel climate and energy dialogues under Article 11 of the Governance Regulation.
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June 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
How should we understand ‘meaningful participation’ in EU climate governance?
Ricarda Faber (@giz.de), Deyana Kocher & Matthias Duwe (@ecologic.eu) critically examine multilevel climate and energy dialogues under Article 11 of the Governance Regulation.
Read the article: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Ricarda Faber (@giz.de), Deyana Kocher & Matthias Duwe (@ecologic.eu) critically examine multilevel climate and energy dialogues under Article 11 of the Governance Regulation.
Read the article: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Used electronics often fall into a grey zone: not quite products, not yet waste.
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Leonora Kleppa Stærfeldt examines how this legal ambiguity fuels illegal e-waste exports under WTO and Basel Convention rules and why international law must grapple with temporality.
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Leonora Kleppa Stærfeldt examines how this legal ambiguity fuels illegal e-waste exports under WTO and Basel Convention rules and why international law must grapple with temporality.
June 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Used electronics often fall into a grey zone: not quite products, not yet waste.
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Leonora Kleppa Stærfeldt examines how this legal ambiguity fuels illegal e-waste exports under WTO and Basel Convention rules and why international law must grapple with temporality.
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Leonora Kleppa Stærfeldt examines how this legal ambiguity fuels illegal e-waste exports under WTO and Basel Convention rules and why international law must grapple with temporality.
♻️ A circular economy isn’t always a safe one.
New and #opanaccess: Joonas Alaranta & @mimiet.bsky.social examine how REACH & socio-economic analysis handle hazardous substances in recycled materials and how the SSbD framework could offer a more sustainable path.
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New and #opanaccess: Joonas Alaranta & @mimiet.bsky.social examine how REACH & socio-economic analysis handle hazardous substances in recycled materials and how the SSbD framework could offer a more sustainable path.
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
June 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
♻️ A circular economy isn’t always a safe one.
New and #opanaccess: Joonas Alaranta & @mimiet.bsky.social examine how REACH & socio-economic analysis handle hazardous substances in recycled materials and how the SSbD framework could offer a more sustainable path.
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
New and #opanaccess: Joonas Alaranta & @mimiet.bsky.social examine how REACH & socio-economic analysis handle hazardous substances in recycled materials and how the SSbD framework could offer a more sustainable path.
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
How do African regional courts interpret sustainable development?
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In the @recieljournal.bsky.social, Jebby Romanus Gonza explores how institutions like the ECOWAS Court and African Commission balance environmental protection with socio-economic rights across landmark cases.
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In the @recieljournal.bsky.social, Jebby Romanus Gonza explores how institutions like the ECOWAS Court and African Commission balance environmental protection with socio-economic rights across landmark cases.
June 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
How do African regional courts interpret sustainable development?
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
In the @recieljournal.bsky.social, Jebby Romanus Gonza explores how institutions like the ECOWAS Court and African Commission balance environmental protection with socio-economic rights across landmark cases.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
In the @recieljournal.bsky.social, Jebby Romanus Gonza explores how institutions like the ECOWAS Court and African Commission balance environmental protection with socio-economic rights across landmark cases.
How is China greening its investment treaties? Not by default, but by design. In @recieljournal.bsky.social, Shixue Hu examines China’s “instrumentalist” treaty-making, balancing flexibility with fragmentation.
Read the article here available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Read the article here available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
June 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
How is China greening its investment treaties? Not by default, but by design. In @recieljournal.bsky.social, Shixue Hu examines China’s “instrumentalist” treaty-making, balancing flexibility with fragmentation.
Read the article here available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Read the article here available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
New in @recieljournal.bsky.social: Nature-based solutions in the energy transition: A legal perspective.
Eirik Finserås explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) like agrivoltaics & marine habitat restoration can deliver net positive impacts, discussing its legal status.
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Eirik Finserås explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) like agrivoltaics & marine habitat restoration can deliver net positive impacts, discussing its legal status.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
June 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
New in @recieljournal.bsky.social: Nature-based solutions in the energy transition: A legal perspective.
Eirik Finserås explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) like agrivoltaics & marine habitat restoration can deliver net positive impacts, discussing its legal status.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Eirik Finserås explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) like agrivoltaics & marine habitat restoration can deliver net positive impacts, discussing its legal status.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Can EU law safeguard those yet to be born? In her new RECIEL article, Katalin Sulyok reveals how existing “textual hooks” can be repurposed by the Commission, co-legislators & CJEU to future-proof EU policy.
Dive in 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/reel... #EULaw #FutureGenerations
Dive in 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/reel... #EULaw #FutureGenerations
May 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Can EU law safeguard those yet to be born? In her new RECIEL article, Katalin Sulyok reveals how existing “textual hooks” can be repurposed by the Commission, co-legislators & CJEU to future-proof EU policy.
Dive in 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/reel... #EULaw #FutureGenerations
Dive in 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/reel... #EULaw #FutureGenerations
In early view, Katrien Steenmans explores legal risks of Extended Producer Responsibility as a tool for circular economy transition. Based on a scoping review + stakeholder survey, the piece maps key risks: regulatory uncertainty, liability, IP, monitoring & justice gaps.
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May 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In early view, Katrien Steenmans explores legal risks of Extended Producer Responsibility as a tool for circular economy transition. Based on a scoping review + stakeholder survey, the piece maps key risks: regulatory uncertainty, liability, IP, monitoring & justice gaps.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
🌍 EU data law talks about privacy and innovation — but what about climate impact? In the @recieljournal.bsky.social, Enrique Santamaría Echeverría argues we need a paradigm shift: from anthropocentric to ecocentric data governance.
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Read now: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
April 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
🌍 EU data law talks about privacy and innovation — but what about climate impact? In the @recieljournal.bsky.social, Enrique Santamaría Echeverría argues we need a paradigm shift: from anthropocentric to ecocentric data governance.
Read now: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Read now: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Can international investment law align with climate goals?
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In @recieljournal.bsky.social, Bingyu Liu & Shuyi Ai argue it must—proposing binding investor obligations in IIAs to balance regulatory power, climate justice & accountability.
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
In @recieljournal.bsky.social, Bingyu Liu & Shuyi Ai argue it must—proposing binding investor obligations in IIAs to balance regulatory power, climate justice & accountability.
April 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Can international investment law align with climate goals?
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
In @recieljournal.bsky.social, Bingyu Liu & Shuyi Ai argue it must—proposing binding investor obligations in IIAs to balance regulatory power, climate justice & accountability.
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
In @recieljournal.bsky.social, Bingyu Liu & Shuyi Ai argue it must—proposing binding investor obligations in IIAs to balance regulatory power, climate justice & accountability.
New in @recieljournal.bsky.social: Elena Sandulli examines the EU Deforestation-free Products Regulation (#EUDR) through the lens of public international law.
Can the EU address deforestation without overstepping state sovereignty?
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Can the EU address deforestation without overstepping state sovereignty?
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April 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
New in @recieljournal.bsky.social: Elena Sandulli examines the EU Deforestation-free Products Regulation (#EUDR) through the lens of public international law.
Can the EU address deforestation without overstepping state sovereignty?
Read for more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Can the EU address deforestation without overstepping state sovereignty?
Read for more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Waiting on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change? So are we.
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In #EarlyView on @recieljournal.bsky.social, Xi Ning & Cuibai Yang explore what judicial activism from the ICJ might mean in this moment: a Court caught between legal tradition, and scientific urgency.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
In #EarlyView on @recieljournal.bsky.social, Xi Ning & Cuibai Yang explore what judicial activism from the ICJ might mean in this moment: a Court caught between legal tradition, and scientific urgency.
April 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Waiting on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change? So are we.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
In #EarlyView on @recieljournal.bsky.social, Xi Ning & Cuibai Yang explore what judicial activism from the ICJ might mean in this moment: a Court caught between legal tradition, and scientific urgency.
doi.org/10.1111/reel...
In #EarlyView on @recieljournal.bsky.social, Xi Ning & Cuibai Yang explore what judicial activism from the ICJ might mean in this moment: a Court caught between legal tradition, and scientific urgency.
🚀 Now in #EarlyView @recieljournal.bsky.social: What can space law teach us about governing solar geoengineering?
Rachel Neef explores the surprising relevance of liability, supervision & peaceful use rules for solar radiation modification.
Read here #openaccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Rachel Neef explores the surprising relevance of liability, supervision & peaceful use rules for solar radiation modification.
Read here #openaccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🚀 Now in #EarlyView @recieljournal.bsky.social: What can space law teach us about governing solar geoengineering?
Rachel Neef explores the surprising relevance of liability, supervision & peaceful use rules for solar radiation modification.
Read here #openaccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Rachel Neef explores the surprising relevance of liability, supervision & peaceful use rules for solar radiation modification.
Read here #openaccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel...
Now in Early View on @recieljournal.bsky.social
Can climate laws deliver justice—or are they just performative? To help answer (and ask further questions), @viljajohansson.bsky.social compares just transition provisions in climate laws from Ireland, Scotland & Spain.
Can climate laws deliver justice—or are they just performative? To help answer (and ask further questions), @viljajohansson.bsky.social compares just transition provisions in climate laws from Ireland, Scotland & Spain.
April 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Now in Early View on @recieljournal.bsky.social
Can climate laws deliver justice—or are they just performative? To help answer (and ask further questions), @viljajohansson.bsky.social compares just transition provisions in climate laws from Ireland, Scotland & Spain.
Can climate laws deliver justice—or are they just performative? To help answer (and ask further questions), @viljajohansson.bsky.social compares just transition provisions in climate laws from Ireland, Scotland & Spain.
🚨 Celebrating our Special Issues with RECIEL Insider - a new webinar series 🌍
Join us on 8 April (13:00–14:30 CEST) for our first webinar on Emerging Technologies & Environmental, Energy & Climate Law.
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Join us on 8 April (13:00–14:30 CEST) for our first webinar on Emerging Technologies & Environmental, Energy & Climate Law.
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March 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🚨 Celebrating our Special Issues with RECIEL Insider - a new webinar series 🌍
Join us on 8 April (13:00–14:30 CEST) for our first webinar on Emerging Technologies & Environmental, Energy & Climate Law.
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us on 8 April (13:00–14:30 CEST) for our first webinar on Emerging Technologies & Environmental, Energy & Climate Law.
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...