Environmental Sustainability and ‘The European Green Deal’ | Second day

As a response to Climate and environmental-related challenges, on 11 December 2019 the EU Commission released “The European Green Deal”, representing an integral part of the EU Commission’s strategy to implement the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development goals. It is a new growth strategy that aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use, improving the quality of life of current and future generations.

Against such background, this conference aims to critically assess, in an interdisciplinary policyoriented perspective:

• value, rights and current policies for Environmental Sustainability and Circular Economy;
• rights and management of waste;
• legal instruments for enhancing environmental sustainability.

Friday 13 November 2020, h. 12:00: Launch of the European Law Institute’s (ELI) Environmental Law Special Interest Group (SIG) and First Meeting.

The Environmental Law SIG aims at bringing together experts from Europe and beyond, reshaping existing legal instruments and creating new ones so as to achieve environmental sustainability and a circular economy thus making Europe a standard setter in this field. For this purpose, the SIG aims to implement new strategies for regulation and standardisation, enhancing dialogue with social partners and international cooperation. The SIG would rethink in particular: (a) green production and sales law; (b) circular and sharing economy and waste law; (c) enhancing smart mobility; (d) digital transformation as enabler of environmental sustainability; (e) net-zero-emission strategies; (f) policies for clean energy supply; (g) rules on large-scale infrastructure and construction; (h) protecting and supporting biodiversity; (i) taxation and social benefits; (j) green finance and investment.

In particular, the SIG aims at addressing and enhancing the synergy between the green and the digital transformation, by exploring measures to ensure that digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G, cloud and edge computing and the internet of things can accelerate and maximise the impact of policies to deal with climate change and protect the environment.

Program

09:00 III. Legal Instruments for Enhancing Environmental Sustainability

Chair: Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz (University of Helsinki and European University Institute)

The Concept of Sustainability and the Protection of the Environment between Private Law and Public Law

• Barbara Pozzo (University of Insubria)

Waste: a New Property?

• Giorgio Resta (University of Roma Tre)

Towards Environmental-Friendly Guarantees in the Sale of Goods

• Fryderyk Zoll (University of Krakow and University of Osnabrück)

Sustainability and Servitization: The Challenges

• Evelyne Terryn (Catholic University of Leuven)

10:00 Discussion

10:30 IV. Legal Instruments for Enhancing Environmental Sustainability

Chair: Mateja Durovic (King’s College London)

Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence and legal subjectivity

• Enrico Caterini (University of Calabria)

Corporate Environmental Responsibility

• Peter Jung (University of Basel)

Tax Law enhancing Green Consumption and Business Behavior

• Georges Cavalier (University Lyon III)

11:30 Discussion

12:00 V. Inaugural Meeting of the European Law Institute’s Environmental Law Group: The Research Clusters

1. green production and sales law; (b) circular and sharing economy and waste law; (c) enhancing smart mobility; (d) digital transformation as enabler of environmental sustainability; (e) net-zero-emission strategies; (f) policies for clean energy supply; (g) rules on large-scale infrastructure and construction; (h) protecting and supporting biodiversity (i) taxation and social benefits (j) green finance and investment.

13:00 Concluding Remarks

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