The European Union and Global Environmental Protection: Transforming Influence into Action

This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from a legal environmental perspective. The book is one of the results of the research activity of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Environmental Law (2017-2020) funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme.

The European Union and Global Environmental Protection: Transforming Influence into Action begins with an introduction of the key EU competences, instruments and mechanisms, as well as the current international challenges at the EU level. It then explores case study examples from four regulated fields: climate change, biodiversity, multilateral trade, unregulated fishing, and access to justice; and four unregulated areas: mainstreaming of the Sustainable Development Goals in EU policies, and environmental justice, highlighting the extent to which the EU might align with international environmental regimes or extend its normative power.

This volume will be of great relevance to students, scholars, and EU policy makers with an interest in international environmental law and policy.

Mar Campins Eritja is Full Professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona. Her main areas of teaching and research are EU law and European and international environmental law. She leads and participates in various competitive research projects and has published extensively in these areas. She is currently the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Environmental Law at the University of Barcelona and the co-lead researcher of a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science. She has been a Fulbright Scholar at the American University Washington College of Law and a visiting professor at the Universities of Ottawa and Montreal, Dalhousie University, Nova Southeastern University, the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi, Finland. She serves on the board of directors of the UB Water Research Institute, and is a member of the Tarragona Centre for Environmental Law Studies at Rovira i Virgili University, and the Spanish Observatory of Environmental Policies. She is a member of the editorial board of Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental since 2009 and Revista Catalana de Dret Públic (2012-2016). Her roles in the University of Barcelona include vice-dean at the Faculty of Law (2002-2005 and since 2016) and Vice-Rector and Deputy Vice-Rector for International Policy (2005-2008), and she currently sits on the Advisory Board of the University of Barcelona.

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