AbstractThis overview covers a selection of case law relevant to EU environmental law from a pool of more than 60 judgments delivered in 2024 by the Court of Justice of the
European Union (CJEU) in the environment and energy area. As in my previous case law overviews for the Journal of Environmental Law, these are presented in two categories: [...]
AbstractThis case law overview comments on significant UK environmental law cases for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025. It begins with an overarching introduction that
draws some general themes from our selection of cases and considers potential changes to EU-derived regimes following Brexit. [...]
AbstractThe assessment of Scope 3 downstream emissions from oil and gas production has been the subject of litigation in the United Kingdom for many years with environmental
campaigners calling for its inclusion into the environmental impact assessment, and the authorities and the industry maintaining that these emissions are outside [...]
AbstractThis analysis critically reviews the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Case C-330/22 Friends of the Irish Environment v. Ireland of 11
January 2024. The judgment followed a preliminary reference by the High Court of Ireland concerning the validity of Annex IA of Council Regulation 2020/123 on fishing [...]
AbstractThis article discusses the difficulty in achieving sustainable development for South African waste pickers (informal collectors and sellers of recyclable materials)
through an empirical case study. Waste pickers recycle for their survival due to a lack of job opportunities. [...]
AbstractThe High Court in Friends of the Earth (No. 3), delivered on the 25th of October 2024, a decision which concerned the statutory interpretation of section 58 of the
Climate Change Act 2008 (‘CCA’) that obliges the Secretary of State to issue a programme for adaption to climate change, including setting out the government’s [...]
