englischSustainability issues have enormous political and social implications. Intergenerational justice issues have been in focus not only since the groundbreaking climate decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on 24 March 2021. The author examines how new procedural and action rights for [...]
more informationenglischIn environmental law, monitoring replaces more and more public surveillance with self-surveillance of the project promoter. The author illustrates the legal relations between the administration and the project promoter and analyses how environmental risks can be regulated and how the [...]
more informationenglischThe present study deals with the structures of biomass fuel law in force within the European Union, Germany and Brazil. Following a description of the biomass fuels sector and the phenomenology of biomass fuels, the fundamental structures of EU biomass fuel law are analysed, taking into [...]
more informationenglischEcodesign requirements apply to the ecological design of products. The EU ecodesign directive provides a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-related products. If the legislator decides to consider all environmental impacts of the products through the whole life [...]
more informationDer Tagungsband erörtert das Thema Ressourceneffizienz aus zehn unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, angefangen bei ökonomischen Gesichtspunkten, über europäische Vorgaben zum Ressourcenschutz bis hin zu ordnungspolitischen Erwartungen und Ökodesignanforderungen.
more informationenglischLocal building regulations are to date an unfamiliar and yet surprisingly versatile ecological means of construction design. This volume comprehensively examines for the first time the possibility of enacting environmentally relevant local building regulations in all 16 federal states – [...]
more informationenglischFor providing effective consumer- and environment protection, involving producing companies, manufacturers and distributors in post-marketing-monitoring and -surveillance has become a key element. In the field of product-, technology- and substance legislation many of these duties have been [...]
more informationenglischEfforts to raise energy efficiency constitute an important element of climate protection law and the turnaround in energy policy. As the improvement of energy efficiency calls for ongoing technical progress, Andrea Diehl analyses the possibilities and boundaries that regulatory law creates [...]
more informationDer Autor untersucht anhand der technischen Verfahrensschritte der CCS-Technologie (Abscheidung, Transport und unterirdische Speicherung) sowohl die Umsetzung der RL 2009/31 EG durch die Entwürfe des nationalen CCS-Gesetzes, als auch genehmigungsrechtliche Anforderungen anderer Rechtsregime. Dabei [...]
more informationAuf europäischer wie auf mitgliedstaatlicher Ebene weist die Politik der Steigerung der Energieeffizienz eine Schlüsselfunktion für den Klimaschutz sowie für die Stärkung von Energieversorgungssicherheit und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu. Zum Teil von der Öffentlichkeit unbemerkt, hat die Union einen [...]
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