The European Union: an appropriate body to implement and uphold environmental law within its borders?

The European Union: an appropriate body to implement and uphold Environmental Law within its borders

Hello and welcome everyone to this Birkbeck students podcast on EU Environmental Law.

I’m your host, Spike Western, and I’m here today with Sholom Toron, and Kate Moice.

We will be attempting to critically engage with the key theoretical position of the EU as a body of- and enforcer of Environmental law.

The key theoretical position I’ll be trying to decide on is ‘whether European Union is an appropriate body to implement and uphold environmental law within its borders.’

Sholom will be discussing how environmental law has developed as the body of EU law has expanded and how this has presented issues which the EU has had to deal with and what the core environmental principles are and why they are difficult to apply.

Kate meanwhile will be delving into the caselaw of what happens in the courts regarding Union environmental law, how the Court has undertaken a non-interventionalist approach and often hasn’t taken action, but also how the Court enforces some non-EU environmental law. We’ll end on a discussion about the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.