In the context of unstable economic times, three of the major polluting countries, the United States, China and India, have until this point refused to sign a prescriptive climate agreement. In this context, it appears difficult for Europe to commit to important environmental measures, without running the risk of threatening its economic competitiveness. However, the urgent need for environmental action is beyond question.
How do we reconcile economic competitiveness and environmental protection? How to get the principal polluting countries to the negotiating table?
These questions, tacked at the Poznan Conference (December 2008) will be at the centre of international negotiations until Copenhagen Conference (December 2009), and will have a major impact on our regulation of globalisation into the future.
In the report, directed by Elvire Fabry, Director of European-International research, and Damien Tresallet, Research Fellow of the Fondation pour l’innovation politique, international experts closely examines the environmental strategies of America, China, India and Europe, in order to propose an EU strategy which will harmonise economic competitiveness and environmental protection.
Pages: 130
Price: 10.00 €
The Avosetta Series (4)
The precautionary principle, the polluters pay principle and similar principles have become embedded in the language of contemporary environment policy. In this important new study, leading European experts in environmental law consider the legal significance of such environmental principles, both in jurisprudential theory and in practice before the courts.
August 2004
256 pages
Price: 40.00 €
The Avosetta Series (7)
More than 30 years have passed since the first Community environmental programme was adopted in 1973, starting the work on what is now a vast body of Community law covering almost any aspect of environmental protection. This book endeavours to take a step back and assess what has been achieved to date and what could be improved for the future.
November 2005
628 pages
Price: 125.00 €
Empirical Findings and Legal Appraisal
This book, the sixth in the series, is based on the findings of a research study on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters that the European Commission commissioned in 2002 in order to provide input on the preparation of a proposal for a Directive on access to justice. In particular, the book assesses recent developments and the current situation concerning NGO access to justice in environmental matters in certain member states, and in particular to obtain empirical data on the number of cases brought by environmental associations.
228 pages
Price: 62.00 €