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
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.
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.
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.
In the absence of world leaders, and with the UNFCCC climate conference at COP26 in Glasgow postponed until November 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, student climate activists decided to press ahead and hold their own online MOCK COP, which took place between 19th November and 1st December 2020. The full Declaration and Treaty can be read here.
On 14 October 2020 the European Commission adopted the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. The Commission’s proposals, which will now be debated and negotiated with EU Member States and the European Parliament, set an ambitious new agenda for chemicals regulation within the Union as part of the EU Green Deal.
This webinar is designed to inform educators, lawyers, policymakers and researchers around the world who are grappling with how to use EdTech to keep children learning in a safe way. It will cover the growing use of EdTech, current trends in privacy and data laws, the big issues of responsible data use in EdTech, and how best to regulate its use - particularly in lower income countries.
On 12 October 2020 the Agriculture Bill returned to the House of Commons, which voted down the amendments added by the House of Lords. The Lords amendments would have required that food products imported into the U.K. under future trade deals meet U.K. standards. They would also have required that the new Trade and Agriculture Commission be given a statutory role in reviewing trade agreements.
On 25 November 2020 William Wilson will be speaking on "COVID-19 and Climate Change: Impacts on COP26, National Policies, Green Recovery" at the 2020 Journal of Environmental Law workshop "Environmental Law in the Time of COVID" run by Professor Liz Fisher at the University of Oxford.
This final blog in the ‘Education and COVID-19’ series features extracts from interviewees who have contributed throughout the series…their commentary provides invaluable personal insights into many of the ways COVID-19 has affected education, from those who have been experiencing the challenges first-hand.
We have just launched a new website and blog - www.COP26andbeyond.com aiming to provide new ideas and resources to young people in particular, so as to enhance the value of their participation.
