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Towards a Regime of Emission Litigation based on Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Kai Purnhagen
Kai Purnhagen*
Affiliation:
Wageningen University
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Abstract

Courts in Europe increasingly acknowledge an individual right to emission reduction against states. Such a right forms a new policy tool that can be used to enforce emission reduction. It can also be used to enforce scientifically sound environmental policy, as Courts recognise science as a default position when determining the content of the right. The individual right to emission reduction is another tool in the making to consider when implementing scientific insights into policy making.

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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 443 - 444
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015

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