environment, International
William Wilson
NUCLEAR LIABILITY WORKSHOP IN ACCRA, GHANA

It was great to make a first visit to Accra and Ghana in mid April 2025 to contribute to a workshop on nuclear liability as part of the European Commission programme in support of Ghana’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority, led by friends and colleagues from  Vienna.  I did sessions on nuclear liability, and on nuclear transport.

NUCLEAR LIABILITY WORKSHOP IN ACCRA, GHANA
environment, International
William Wilson
UK-EU SANDEEL DISPUTE ARBITRATION

From 28 to 30 January 2025 the UK and the EU were in an arbitration hearing in the Hague. The hearing concerned the UK and Scottish governments’ decision to ban sandeel fishing in certain areas of the Dogger Bank

UK-EU SANDEEL DISPUTE ARBITRATION
International, environment
William Wilson
ITALIAN STATE’S INACTION ON ILLEGAL WASTE ...

On 30 January 2025 the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights handed down a judgement in the case of Cannavacciuolo and Others v Italy.

ITALIAN STATE’S INACTION ON ILLEGAL WASTE DUMPING AND BURNING HELD TO BREACH RIGHT TO LIFE
environment
William Wilson
PLANNING IN SILICON VALLEY

In the late 1990s, while undertaking a Harkness Fellowship in the USA and working on a book on ‘Making Environmental Laws Work’, I visited Silicon Valley to talk to some of the company managers there about environmental regulation and the US computer industry.

PLANNING IN SILICON VALLEY
Climate Change
William Wilson
LAUNCH OF PAKISTAN CLIMATE FELLOWS RESEARCH ...

On 2 December 2024 at the Oxford Climate Society our climate website The Borrowed Earth Project was proud to launch two highly original reports by its Pakistan Research Fellows.

LAUNCH OF PAKISTAN CLIMATE FELLOWS RESEARCH REPORTS AT OXFORD
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AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES BILLS FALL WITH THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT: ENVIRONMENT BILL NOT YET INTRODUCED

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With the (somewhat controversial) prorogation of Parliament from 9 September to 14 October 2019, it would appear that the Agriculture Bill, the Fisheries Bill and other key legislation including the Trade Bill, which were going through Parliament on 9 September will now technically ‘fall’.