Claudio Franzius

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 22 (2024), Issue 1, Page 119 - 126

Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies aim to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and – unlike CCS and CCU – can generate negative emissions. Accordingly, they may contribute to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Such technical methods, however, meet with considerable resistance in Germany. It is argued here that this resistance can be overcome through regulation. The following article examines both the challenges and the possible steps involved in bringing technology-based CDR to market.

Claudio Franzius

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 17 (2019), Issue 4, Page 498 - 508

It seems increasingly clear that climate change has led us into a new geological era, the Anthropocene. But what results from the fact that we live in the Anthropocene for climate protection? The Anthropocene is a concept that offers different possibilities of interpretation. In this article, the approach that the Anthropocene requires a “World Social Contract” for a Great Transformation is compared with a conflict-oriented approach that the legal representation of conflicts between culture and nature relies on the recognition of the conflict actors involved. However in contrast, this article supports a third interpretation: the transnationalization of existing legal systems could develop a jurisprudential concept for describing the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Thorsten Siegel, Wolfgang Schenk, Boas Kümper, Claudio Franzius, Monika Böhm, Jens Kersten, Tobias Leidinger, Johannes Eichenhofer, Claudio Franzius, Marcus Schmidtchen, Rüdiger Wolfrum

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 16 (2018), Issue 4, Page 568 - 584

Claudio Franzius

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 15 (2017), Issue 2, Page 166 - 175

The Paris agreement on climate protection, adopted in December 2015, was politically celebrated as a milestone of international climate policy. However, in the German speaking jurisprudential literature it found comparably little attention. In contrast to the Anglo-American literature restrained approval dominated. Is it possible, that only German environmental activists are capable to assess the gravity of the situation? Nearer lies the assumption that the conceptual transition of the perspective of international law is not taken into consideration properly.