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Leistungskraft und Regelungstechniken des internationalen Klimaschutzrechts journal article

Wolfgang Durner

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 19 (2021), Issue 4, Page 330 - 341

Over the last three decades, climate change law has been transformed into a complex system of multi-level governance where global decisions are supposed to result in local action and to determine local behaviour. In practice, however, the impact of international law is rather limited. While the international community managed to conclude three legally binding instruments, the present treaty law does not enshrine binding obligations to reduce emissions. Therefore, environmental activists increasingly seek recourse to abstract principles of customary international law. All these debates focus on establishing binding quantitative targets for states and neglect the instrumental dimension of their implementation. The European Commission in its „fit for 55”-package, on the other hands, seems to recognize that it is not enough simply to fix targets and to leave implementation to the Member States. All in all, decision makers on the state level need international coordination and guidance which is more specific and predictable.



Schwerpunkt: UmwRG und UVPG ∙ SUP-pflichtige Fachpläne in der verwaltungsgerichtlichen Kontrolle journal article

Die neuen Klagemöglichkeiten der Umweltverbände nach § 1 Abs. 1 S. 1 Nr. 4 Buchst. a) UmwRG

Wolfgang Durner

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 16 (2018), Issue 2, Page 142 - 157

The 2017 amendments to the German Environmental Appeals Act (Umwelt-Rechtsbehelfsgesetz) have extended the scope for lawsuits brought by private environmental associations. In future, private associations are entitled to challenge almost any state act which can be subject to a strategic environmental impact assessment. These new lawsuits cover a wide range of plans which are quite inhomogeneous in form and substance. In the course of their judicial examination, the notable differences among these plans result in rather diverse legal problems. Moreover, not all of the Environmental Appeals Act’s procedural decisions turn out to be completely consistent.


Natur- und Gewässerschutz – Ausgangsparameter, Zielsynergien, Zielkonflikte journal article

Wolfgang Durner

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 13 (2015), Issue 2, Page 82 - 95

Traditionally, German law used to draw clear borderlines between water law and nature protection law: On the Federal level, the Federal Nature Protection Act aimed at protecting wildlife and nature while the Federal Water Resources Act dealt with the management and use of water as a resource. In 2000, however, the European Water Framework Directive recognized that „water, due to its ecological and social value is more than a resource“, and obliged Member States to attain a good ecological status of all water. With its new approach, the Water Framework Directive became the starting point of a comprehensive ecologization of German water law. Nevertheless, while the newly created links between water management and nature protection are to be welcomed, both fields of law have to preserve their respective rationalities.

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