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Reversing the decline of biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes is urgent. We suggest eight measures addressing politics, economics, and civil society to instigate transformative changes in agricultural landscapes. We emphasize the need for a well-informed society and political measures promoting sustainable farming by combining food production and biodiversity conservation.

The European Commission's “Fit for 55” package of July 2021 provides for a significant increase in renewable energy and energy efficiency targets in the European Union (EU). However, the EU’s competences in the energy sector are severely limited and subject to sovereignty. Already in 2018, the EU adopted a Governance Regulation that provides for a hardening of the otherwise only soft governance in the areas of renewable energies and energy efficiency due to the lack of European competences. It is intended to ensure that the Commission's recommendations for improving national energy and climate plans are implemented by the member states. An analysis of the quality of implementation of these recommendations now shows that this has a positive effect in areas with harder soft governance but still needs improvement. Increasing the targets of regulatory action cannot be successful without revising the Governance Regulation and hardening soft governance along with it. Otherwise, the EU is not fit for its 55 percent target in 2030.

To implement the European Union (EU) Climate Law’s newly established 55% greenhouse gas reduction objective for 2030, the EU Commission suggests a wave of reforms to the European energy and climate legislation. The contribution aims to describe the EU Commission’s 16 initial legislative and strategic proposals regarding the major pillars of the European energy and climate legislation and intends to give an overview on the suggested reforms. By comparing the legal status quo with the legal framework de lege ferenda as presented by the Commission’s proposals, the planned major changes to the legal structures are identified. To achieve the 55% greenhouse gas reduction objective for 2030, all existing legal climate and energy acts are planned to be tightened by amending their targets as well as scopes and revising their structures. The suggested reforms concern the existing EU emissions trading system, effort sharing system between the Member States, energy taxation, energy efficiency and renewable energies. Additionally, the implementation of new instruments, such as the second EU emissions trading system for the sectors buildings and transport, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and the Social Climate Fund, is proposed. The design of the package shows that the Commission still generally pursues a climate legislation characterized by a mix of instruments and policies being both price based and regulatory. So, even though the major proposed change—the introduction of a second separate emissions trading system—would strengthen the role of carbon pricing, the Commission still relies on a mix of instruments without defining a leading instrument.

Air traffic law deals with noise emissions primarily by means of passive noise protection. Active noise abatement, which starts at the source of emissions, is not given precedence in air traffic approval procedures. The study examines how the legal basis for aviation licensing and for the definition of flight procedures can be strengthened with regard to active noise abatement measures. To this end, it analyzes the scope for action under constitutional, Union and international law and considers all relevant planning levels, including regional planning, urban land use planning and sectoral planning.

Das Umweltrecht ist wie kein anderes Rechtsgebiet inzwischen europarechtlich überformt. Die Stärke des mittlerweile in 8. Auflage erschienenen Lehrbuches ist es, Europäisierung und Internationalisierung dieses Rechtsgebietes anschaulich anhand zahlreicher Grafiken und Fallbeispiele zu erörtern. Vollständig eingearbeitet sind die neuesten Rechtsentwicklungen – im Klima- und Umweltrechtsschutz, das neue Verpackungsgesetz sowie das Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetz. Aus dem Inhalt: Grundprinzipien und Instrumente des Umweltrechts Rechtsschutz im Umweltrecht Umwelteuroparecht Immissionsschutzrecht Natur-, Boden-, Gewässer- und Klimaschutz Kreislaufwirtschaftsrecht Klimaschutzrecht, inkl. Beschluss des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz Neueste Rechtsprechung und Literatur

Die Neuauflage des Aarhus-Handbuchs vermittelt den aktuellen Stand der umfangreichen Entwicklungen des Aarhus-Übereinkommens seit seinem Inkrafttreten im Jahr 2001. Das Werk orientiert sich an dessen zentralen Regelungen und stellt die Handlungsmöglichkeiten aufgrund internationalen und europäischen sowie Bundes- und Landesrechts dar. Durch gut verständliche Erläuterungen ist das Aarhus-Handbuch für Zivilgesellschaft, Anwaltschaft, Verwaltung, Wirtschaft und Justiz bei der praktischen Anwendung der komplexen und vielschichtigen Vorschriften eine echte Hilfe!

Dieses Kapitel enthalt eine umfassende Analyse der Rechtspflichten und rechtlichen Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten zum Schutz vor Risiken und Gefahren fur Vogel, Fledermause und Insekten durch Glas und Licht. Hierzu wird der Stand der Forschung zum Vogelschlag durch Glas und zu den nachteiligen Auswirkungen von nachtlichen Lichtquellen auf Insekten, Fledermausen und Vogel zugrunde gelegt. Die Analyse untersucht insbesondere die Anforderungen des Bau-, Naturschutz- und Immissionsschutzrechts. Schwerpunkte bilden das Artenschutz- und FFH-Recht sowie die Eingriffsregelung des BNatSchG, die Betreiberpflichten des BImSchG und die bauplanungsrechtlichen Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten.