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- Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges
Antarktis und Amazonas als internationale Rechtssubjekte
27.02.2025
Rechte und Rechtssubjektivität von Ökosystemen oder der Natur als Ganzes sind mittlerweile Teil von Rechtsordnungen weltweit. Über das nationale Recht hinaus fordern Rechtswissenschaftler:innen und Aktivist:innen nunmehr auch die Anerkennung von...
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- Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges
A Ring of Hope
25.02.2025
The text examines the current environmental challenges threatening the cenotes within the ‘Ring of Cenotes’ natural reserve in Yucatán State, Mexico. It briefly analyzes a case involving a large-scale pig...
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- Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges
“Nature […] is Always Right”
25.02.2025
In recent years, the notion of “human interconnectedness” with the “non-human world” led to several legislative initiatives and court decisions granting legal subjectivity to nature and/or recognizing inherent “Rights of...
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- Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges
Revolution of Rights, Rethinking of Freedom
24.02.2025
The debate on inherent rights of nature (RoN) is no longer uncharted domain. What initially emerged as a theoretical concept in the 1970s through the work of Christopher Stone, who...
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- Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges
The Struggles of Rights of Nature
24.02.2025
Elena Ewering
Andreas Gutmann
Janina Reimann
Tore Vetter
Social movements have always played a crucial role in determining the trajectory of world history. Today, all over the world, various actors of civil society demand for RoN). Ecuador’s pioneering...
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Klimagutachten des Internationalen Gerichtshofs
19.02.2025
Während der Antrag der UN Generalversammlung für ein Gutachten zur Frage der Pflichten von Staaten bezüglich Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel als Meilenstein gefeiert wird, besteht das Risiko, dass das Gericht...
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XX (b), (g) and Everything in Between
27.01.2025
The interaction between trade and climate has become a legal and geopolitical hotbed. The European Union (‘EU’) recently decided to introduce a carbon tariff, which would result in hiked prices...
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Remaining Tensions Between the “Global Souths” and the “Global Norths”
26.11.2024
Tejas Rao
Renatus Otto Franz Derler
The Convention on Biological Diversity gained increased momentum with the establishment of the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) which aimed to address the limitations of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets...
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How Do You Like Your Coffee? Green!
23.02.2024
More than two billion cups – that is the global amount of coffee we are consuming every day. Notwithstanding its value as a culinary treat and a remedy for staying...
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Analysis of the Obligations in International Law to Environmentally Remediate Munitions Dumped in the Baltic Sea
20.02.2024
In this episode of the “Völkerrechtliche Tagesthemen” this lecturer discusses the legal frameworks surrounding sea-dumped chemical weapons (SDCWs) and explores whether states have an international responsibility to protect marine environments...
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International Rights of Nature
14.12.2023
Rights of nature have experienced a major upswing in recent years (for an overview of legal developments, see here). Starting with a local ordinance in the US state of Pennsylvania...
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Bridging Jurisprudence and Ecology
25.10.2023
Earlier this year, the United Nations General Assembly filed a request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice following the adoption resolution on 29 March. The request...
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- Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?
Progress and Linear Time: How to Rethink International Law to Account for Ecologically Precarious Presents?
19.09.2023
We live in the ‘era of global boiling’, says UN Secretary-General Guterres, as July 2023 set to be the hottest month on record. While the ecological conditions of planetary life...
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In Line with the Vanguard of International Law?
31.05.2023
When the sun sets over Mar Menor, flamingos wade slowly through the silt at the shores. The lagoon’s waters are shallow, used to be crystal clear and abundant with seahorses....
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On the Potential of GATT Article XX for the Renewable Energy Sector
21.04.2023
Energy security is a critical concern for many States, as it involves ensuring reliable access to affordable energy resources. Therefore, renewable energy becomes indispensable for the growing energy needs of...
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When A Princess Causes a Nightmare
27.03.2023
On February 28, 2023, the tanker Princess Empress sank off the coast of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines as a result of engine damage. Since then, the loaded 800,000 liters of industrial...
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On the Power of Formation
13.02.2023
“Formation” may be defined as “an act of giving form or shape”. In international environmental governance, matters of form and shape are constitutive. Whether the formation of a global environmental...
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And the Azerbaijan-Armenia Lawfare Expanded
30.01.2023
On 18 January 2023, the government of Azerbaijan announced that it had launched an inter-state arbitration proceedings against Armenia under the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and...
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A Multilateral Mechanism for Digital Sequence Information
12.01.2023
The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (hereinafter: CBD) has now reached a substantive conclusion, although not an official one. The latter is due...
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Dead Fish in the River Oder
08.09.2022
A gigantic ecological catastrophe is unfolding in Central Europe: Thousands of dead fish were found in the river Oder since the end of July, now amounting to more than 100...
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- Framing Business & Human Rights?
Unpacking the Potentials of a Framework Agreement on Business and Human Rights
20.06.2022
In a context of mounting evidence of adverse impacts of business activities on human rights and the environment, the Business and Human Rights (BHR) legal framework has gained momentum in...
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