{"title":"Towards a European Principle of Independence: The Ongoing Constitutionalisation of an Independent Energy Regulator","authors":"S. Lavrijssen","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/1/6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/1/6","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses recent case law of the European Court of Justice in which the European requirements concerning the political independence of national regulatory authorities in the energy sector were interpreted in a broad way. These judgements were delivered in a time in which a strong independent authority plays a crucial role in the acceleration of the energy transition by safeguarding fair market access to new entrants offering innovative energy services. At the same time, the European developments towards a politically independent regulatoryauthoritywithdiscretionary,regulatory,powersisatoddswiththewaythedemoc-racy principle and the legality principle have traditionally been interpreted in several Member States, such as in the Netherlands and Germany. However, it is argued that the latter principles do offer scope for a different interpretation than the more traditional one of the principle of legislative supremacy. A condition, however, is that accountability mechanisms must be improved to provide citizens a legal guarantee that they can have a say and that the regulatory authority can be held accountable by the courts.","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128692154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward an Intergovernmental Transparency Arrangement for Fossil Fuel Production","authors":"H. Asselt, Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/3/4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/3/4","url":null,"abstract":"To achieve the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals, a managed decline of fossil fuel production is necessary. Heeding this message, there are growing calls for an international governance framework to facilitate cooperation on winding down fossil fuel production. Promoting transparency is of major importance for international cooperation on winding down fossil fuel production effectively and equitably. Specifically, to align fossil fuel production with climate change goals, a better understanding of global trends in current and planned production is required. However, at present such information is incomplete, inconsistent, and scattered across a range of transparency initiatives, and much of this information is reported or collected largely on a voluntary basis. This article therefore explores how an intergovernmental transparency arrangement could be designed, drawing on examples of intergovernmental transparency arrangements in various areas of international law and governance. The article concludes that an intergovernmental trans-parency arrangement for fossil fuel production should: (1) allow for differentiation, but subject to minimum requirements; (2) provide capacity-building support for developing countries; (3) combine technical and peer review; (4) ensure that follow-up activities are linked to the outcome of the review process; and (5) provide for non-state actor participation.","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116341578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Human Rights Approach to Climate litigation in Nigeria: Potentialities and Agamben’s State of Exception Theory","authors":"M. Adigun, A. Oluborode Jegede","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/3/5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/3/5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124671470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Too Little, Too Slow? Climate Adaptation at the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations Since the Adoption of the Paris Agreement","authors":"T. Leiter","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/4/5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/4/5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121023471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The German Federal Constitutional Court's Decision on the Climate Change Act","authors":"R. Bodle, S. Sina","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/1/5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/1/5","url":null,"abstract":"1 The fundamental right to life and physical integrity in the constitution (Article 2 (2), first sentence) also includes a duty of the state to actively protect life and health from the dangers of climate change. This is not a fundamental right of future generations, but of persons alive now and during their lifetime. However, the state has a wide margin of discretion, which the Climate Change Act does not overstep.","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"318 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115747891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Rocky Road: Tackling Carbon Emissions in Austria’s Transport Sector","authors":"B. Hollaus","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/2/7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/2/7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126301070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Obergassel, C. Arens, C. Beuermann, C. Elsner, L. Hermwille, N. Kreibich, H. E. Ott, J. Schell, M. Schulze-Steinen, M. Spitzner
{"title":"Last Call for 1.5 Degrees:","authors":"W. Obergassel, C. Arens, C. Beuermann, C. Elsner, L. Hermwille, N. Kreibich, H. E. Ott, J. Schell, M. Schulze-Steinen, M. Spitzner","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/4/4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/4/4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126377208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and the Energy Community: Threat for Electricity Trade or Tool for Raising Climate Ambition and Electricity Market Integration","authors":"K. Rozeta","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/2/4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/2/4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134515860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Valorizing Bamboo for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption: Legal and Policy Appraisal from Cameroon","authors":"G. Fosoh Ngwome, F. Nghobuoche","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/4/6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/4/6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124887302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulating Removals: Bundling to Achieve Fungibility in GGR Removal Units","authors":"J. Macinante, N. Singh Ghaleigh","doi":"10.21552/cclr/2022/1/4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/1/4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":157656,"journal":{"name":"Carbon & Climate Law Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122321227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}