Deploying the European Green Deal: Protecting the Environment Beyond the EU Borders (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy)

Drawing on a range of expert contributions, this book explores how the European Green Deal is being deployed in practice and observes how the EU tries to promote the protection of the environment in third countries.

This book begins by assessing the state of the art in terms of the key conceptual issues and analyses sectoral initiatives that are particularly relevant for the deployment of the European Green Deal external dimensions. These include the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, the EU’s regulatory action in the control of maritime emissions, the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy, the Deforestation Initiative, the Zero Pollution Initiative, the From Farm to Fork Initiative, and the Climate Neutrality and Clean Energy Initiative in the context of the Energy Charter Treaty. Next, the authors deal with horizontal aspects of the European Green Deal that also have external dimensions, such as the Green Deal Diplomacy, the Green Public Procurement, funding measures, initiatives related to corporate sustainability and due diligence, and the implementation and enforcement of EU environmental law. This volume concludes with a cross-cutting analysis, focusing on how the EU can strengthen the impact of its normative power on international environmental governance, while also noting its limitations.

Deploying the European Green Deal will be of great interest to students and scholars of international and EU environmental law and environmental policy and governance.

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Mar Campins Eritja is Professor of Public International Law at the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). Her scientific interest has focused on the international and EU legal protection of the environment, with a special emphasis on the international regime on climate change, the international regime on dangerous wastes, and the environmental protection of the Arctic. She leads and participates in various competitive research projects and has published extensively in these areas and is the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Environmental Law (2017–2020, 2020–2023) funded by the EU Commission. In addition to her teaching duties at the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de Barcelona, she has held various management positions: Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law (2002–2004 and 2016–2021), Assistant to the Vice-Rector for International Policy, and Vice-Rector for International Policy (2005–2008). She has been a Fulbright scholar at American University and visiting professor at Nova Southeastern University, the University of Puerto Rico, Lapland University, the University of Ottawa, Dalhousie University, the Université de Montréal, and Strathclyde University. She was Member of the Direction Board of the UB Research Water Institute (2015–2022) and Member of the Center for Environmental Law Studies of Tarragona (CEDAT) at the University Rovira i Virgili.

Xavier Fernández-Pons is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Bologna, and he is also Diplomate of the Centre for Studies and Research of The Hague Academy of International Law. He is Researcher at the Centre for Environmental Law Studies of Tarragona (CEDAT) at the University Rovira i Virgili and Member of the Jean Monnet Chair on European Union Environmental Law at the University of Barcelona. His main lines of research are international economic law, World Trade Organization, regional trade agreements, foreign investments, European Union’s trade policy, trade and environment, and trade and health, all areas in which he has published extensively.