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The latest issue of @RECIELjournal is out now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/20500394/2… 📘 Vol 34(1): Fit for 55 and Beyond Explore Europe’s climate transformation through law, featuring special issue articles on the EU Green Deal, litigation strategies, circular trade, and more.

Can the courtroom become the frontline of global plastics accountability? A new @RECIELjournal article by Josselin Stone tracks how litigation is reshaping environmental justice, one case at a time. 📖 Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/reel.7…

How are African courts shaping sustainable development law? Jebby Romanus Gonza analyses key rulings by African regional bodies, revealing how they balance economic rights, natural resources & social justice. 🧵Read now, #OpenAccess on @RECIELjournal: doi.org/10.1111/reel.7…

Can legal doctrine enable grassroots climate action? Alan Żukowski examines the Rybnicki Alarm Smogowy case in Poland, proposing critical doctrinal analysis as a method to study strategic climate litigation amid democratic backsliding. Read: doi.org/10.1111/reel.7…

How is China mobilising private finance for ecosystem restoration under the Convention on Biological Diversity? This new article explores China’s evolving legal approach, from PPPs to “whoever restores, profits”, and the risks of speculative restoration. doi.org/10.1111/reel.7…

Cultivated meat is on the rise, but how are regulators responding? This new article by Hope Johnson and Alessandro Monaco compares legal approaches across five jurisdictions, revealing divergent views on risk, innovation, and public participation. doi.org/10.1111/reel.7…

Can climate policy be stable and flexible? Sai Ma , Simon Schaub & Joan Enguer unpack Spain’s renewable energy disputes to rethink what ‘regulatory stability’ means for investors, states & decarbonisation. Available #OpenAccess in @RECIELjournal: doi.org/10.1111/reel.1…

How open is the EU when preparing for UN climate talks? Tuula Honkonen (@UEFLawSchool) explores the tension between strategic secrecy and civil society participation in the EU’s climate diplomacy. New and #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel.1…

Are multilevel climate dialogues in the EU delivering on their promise? Ricarda Faber (GIZ), Deyana Kocher & Matthias Duwe (@EcologicBerlin) assess how Article 11 of the Governance Regulation is working in practice and where it falls short. Full article: doi.org/10.1111/reel.1…

📦 When is a used laptop a product and when is it hazardous waste? 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/reel.7… In @RECIELjournal Leonora Kleppa Stærfeldt explores how legal ambiguity around e-waste can sometimes enable illegal shipments from rich to poor countries.

Can something be “circular” but not “safe”? doi.org/10.1111/reel.7… This piece by @JoonasAlaranta and @MirellaMietti explores how EU chemicals law balances the risks of recycled materials with circular economy goals and why design-based regulation might be the way forward.

How is China greening its investment treaties? Not by default, but by design. In @RECIELjournal, Shixue Hu (@CUHKLaw) examines China’s “instrumentalist” treaty-making, balancing flexibility with fragmentation. Read the article here available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel.7…

New in @RECIELjournal: Can renewables restore nature? Eirik Finserås explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) like agrivoltaics & marine habitat restoration can deliver net positive impacts—but are they legally required? Read more: doi.org/10.1111/reel.1…

Can EU law protect those yet to be born? In #EarlyView and #OpenAccess, Katalin Sulyok reveals hidden “textual hooks” in Treaties & the Charter—intergenerational solidarity & sustainable development—that could future-proof EU policy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/reel.1… #EULaw

New in @RECIELjournal: What legal risks are stalling Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)? Katrien Steenmans (@steens88) maps key gaps in law + practice for circular economies. Available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/reel.1… #CircularEconomy #EPR #WasteLaw #RECIEL

EU data law talks about privacy and innovation, but what about climate impact? In the @RECIELjournal, Enrique Santamaría Echeverría argues we need a paradigm shift: from anthropocentric to ecocentric data governance. Read now in #EarlyView: doi.org/10.1111/reel.1…

🌍 “Care of the Self, Care of the Earth.” Peter Doran’s 2012 piece still stings with relevance. As we passed #EarthDay this week, read this prophetic critique of capitalism’s hold on our attention, imagination, and ecological response. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/j.1467…

Can international investment law align with climate goals? doi.org/10.1111/reel.1… In @RECIELjournal, Bingyu Liu & Shuyi Ai argue it must, proposing binding investor obligations in IIAs as a way forward.

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