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DROP meets UNEP director and technical advisor to the Kenyan Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry
At the occasion of different but related conference activities, various high level meetings happened in Nairobi, Kenya during the week of 21 August 2023. Photo f.l.t.r.: Mr. Neto Agostinho, the technical advisor to the Kenyan Minister of Environment, Climate Change...
New report launched: A regulatory framework for green hydrogen production in Namibia
GH production in Namibia is expected to contribute substantially to economic growth, create employment and foster environmental sustainability by reducing carbon usage. However, to achieve this, there must be a comprehensive and effective legal and regulatory...
OPINION | Civil disobedience and the climate activist movement: A last resort for action?
In the absence of a global and concerted effort to address climate change, civil disobedience and the climate activist movement seem to be a last resort for some, writes Oliver C. Ruppel....
Expert Workshop: Sustainability Chapters in Free Trade Agreements – research gaps and future role
On 11 May 2023, an Expert Workshop on "Sustainability chapters in Free Trade Agreements – research gaps and future role" was organised by Ecologic Institute - an independent, academic think tank for environmental research and policy analysis - in cooperation with the...
5 June 2023: EPL WEBINAR “THE TRIPLE PLANETARY CRISIS”
Join the EPL webinar on The Triple Planetary Crisis: The Role of Scholars and the Decision-makers. It's scheduled on June 5, 2023, the occasion of the World Environment Day. This webinar will be led by the EPL Editor-in-Chief Bharat H. Desai, PhD, and a panel of...
2023 – WTO LLM Conference Series
On 15 and 22 April 2023, Stellenbosch University LLM students conducted another successful and interesting student conference with the substantive main focus on Africa and the rules of the AfCFTA: Regionalism in trade for sustainable development and sustainability;...
Graz Law Working Paper Series Working Paper No 07-2023
A Comparative Constitutional Analysis of Natural Resources Protection by Oliver C. Ruppel and Ruda Murray Read more...
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2022
Fifty years after Stockholm Conference we face multiple hells, but ‘only one Earth’ https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-06-02-fifty-years-after-stockholm-conference-we-face-multiple-hells-but-only-one-earth/
Prof. Matteo Fermeglia new non-resident fellow @ DROP
He is Assistant Professor in International and European Environmental Law and Post-Doctoral Assistant in Environmental and Administrative Law at Hasselt University, Faculty of Law. In 2017, he was Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, collaborating with the Sabin...
Environmental Law and Policy in Namibia – 4th Edition
Environmental Law and Policy in Namibia Towards Making Africa the Tree of Life Edited by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver C. Ruppel, LL.M., M.M. and Dr. Katharina Ruppel-Schlichting, LL.M. More information here...