Meeting the climate challenge: New legal instruments and issues in national and international energy and climate law

The project takes a broad approach to legal issues inherent in the dynamic and increasingly intertwined fields of national and international climate and energy policy. It is organised within the research group in Natural Resources Law at the Law Faculty w ith broad competence in environmental and climate law, energy law and property law. The interplay of climate law and energy law mechanisms is a governing theme. Its main elements are two interrelated studies at the post-doc./PhD level: The first sudy s hal describe and alanyse legal issues that arise in developing and linking measures and markets for "green energy", energy efficiency, and reducing GHG emissions, The second study shall analyse the environmental safeguards of the Clean Development Mechan ism, in the perspective of environmental integrity. It will follow closely the further implementation and development of the DCM, and discuss its potensial as an important post-Kyoto instrument. Linked to these, more specific topics will be studied and reported on by graduate students to the extent additional funds will be available. Comparative and complementary studies, and international exchanges, will be carried out through close collaboration with recognized research groups in energy and environ mental law in Belgium, Germany, Canada, and USA. The group will follow closely the further development of the international and European climate and energy regimes, and aims at contributing to the development of national climate and energy law through a s eries of publications