Offsets
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Are offsets effective? Should they be limited? How to weigh, compare and price offsets properly? Ottavio Quirico, Associate Professor (ANUCES and UNE), participated in the Carbon Market Policy…
Climate Crisis
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Would a ‘human right to a sustainable climate’ afford flexibility in addressing the climate crisis? Ottavio Quirico, Associate Professor (ANUCES and UNE), participated in the Workshop ‘Our Future in…
Investment Governance and Energy
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In the context of the ongoing reform of the international investment system and of the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty, is it necessary to ‘green’ the Energy Charter Treaty, along the…
Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Climate
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Arguably, the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement establish specific climate rights, and the right to a sustainable climate, in the broader context of the right to a sustainable environment, in the same…
A Fundamental Right to a Sustainable Climate?
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Ottavio Quirico, Associate Professor (ANUCES and UNE), intervened at the EUI Conference ‘Healing and Renewal’ (Max Weber Programme) on the possibility of a fundamental right to a sustainable climate…
Investment conflicts and sustainability
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Investment governance is essential to the implementation of climate policies. Within the context of the relationship between EU law and investment agreements, agruably regulatory conflicts should be…
Carbon leakage
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Do different allocations of free emission allowances affect competition and ETS linking? Are CBAMs compatible with the GATT, the GATS and other agreements, such as the Energy Charter Treaty? Is…
Sustainability and Fundamental Rights
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Article 37 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights establishes environmental protection as a fundamental principle. Despite structural limits implied by its nature as a disability-immunity rule,…
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Jus Cogens
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Ottavio Quirico, Associate Professor (ANUCES and UNE), has published the article ‘Towards a Peremptory Duty to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions?’ in the Fordham International Law Journal (2021) 44(4)…
Climate Governance in the Chinese Century
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Peter Drahos, Professor of Law and Governance at the European University Institute, has published the monograph ‘Survival Governance: Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century’ with Oxford University…