Economic Law on Natural Resources and the Environment in the European and German Legal Systems Second part of the course Economic Law on Natural Resources and the Environment, from the perspective of comparison of laws |
30.06.25 |
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Semester 2, 2024/25 (IUP); Thursday, 17.04.2025, 10:00 - 11:40 and Wednesday, 23.04. to 21.05.2025, 13:00 - 14:40, room B.2.1 |
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Final note
After the end of the course this website has been finished. It will stay available for the purpose of deepening and repetition. Thank you for your interest and commitment. You are always welcome to contact me for any comments or questions. With best wishes for your future studies, yours Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitz
Course Contribution Description
At the Faculty of Law of Universitas Gadjah Mada the courses are shared by several lecturers. This website informs about the contents of my lectures in April and May 2025. They complement those of my colleague Dr. Wahyu Yun Santoso from a comparative perspective.
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Assignment (updated) |
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Slides presented in
the lectures (®
aids for illustration) |
Contents (summary/details)
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§ 1 Introduction |
Part I: General aspects
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§ 2 The unclear nature and systematics of the economic law on natural resources and the environmen |
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§ 3 Legal and political framework conditions for the economic law on natural resources and environment |
Part II: Selected areas and topics
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§ 4 Classical: mining law |
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§ 5 Trend-setting: emissions trading law |
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§ 6 Innovative: renewable energy law |
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§ 7 Ambitious enough? Gerneral climate protection law |
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§ 8 Outlook: current discussions on legal reforms and innovations |
Bibliography (selection for this course contribution for further studies)
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Artantas, Onur Cagdas: Promotion of Green Electricity in Germany and Turkey: A Comparison with Reference to the WTO and EU Law, 2024 |
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Carbon Talk Studio (editor): Understanding the EU ETS (European Union Emissions Trading System): a world-changing financial innovation, 2025 |
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Lutter, Stephan; Kreimel, Julia; Giljum, Stefan a.o.: The Use of Natural Resources. Resources Report for Germany 2022, 2022 |
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Terhechte, Jörg Philipp: Towards a European Natural Resources Law?, in: European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2018, DOI:10.1007/8165_2018_5 |
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Trennepohl, Natascha: Developing a Carbon Market: EU ETS Implementation in Germany and its Transfer Potential for Brazil, 2021 |
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Thieffry, Patrick: Handbook of European Environmental and Climate Law, 2nd edition 2021 |
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Trüe, Christiane; Scholz, Lydia (editors): The European Green Deal and its Implementation, 2023 |
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Woerdman, Edwin; Roggenkamp, Martha; Holwerda, Marijn (editors): Essential EU Climate Law, 2nd edition 2022 |
A. Relevant legal sources and institutions
B. Links concerning special subjects
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concerning § 3: Federal Constitutional Court, Climate Protection Decision (BVerfGE 157, 30); EU Regulation 2019/631 (reducing registration of new passenger cars with combustion engines to zero until 2035) and influential lobbying against it |
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concerning § 4: German Environment Agency (editor), [German] Mining law, 09.03.2021; EITI (editor), Crude Oil and Gas [extraction in Germany], 2024; Kerstin Appun, Coal in Germany, 18.01.2023 |
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concerning § 5: See also - for Indonesia - Linda Yanti Sulistiawati; Louie Buana, Legal Analysis on President Regulation on Carbon Pricing in Indonesia, NUS Law Working Paper No. 2023/005 |
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concerning § 5 II: UNFCCC Secretariat and its website on the Paris Agreement; European Commission, The European Green Deal, 2024 |
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concerning § 5 IV: German Environment Agency (editor), Factsheet Emissions Trading in Europe, 2024; Union Registry (the official European emissions trading register); German Emissions Trading Authority |
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concerning § 5 VI: European Commission, Social Climate Fund (about an instrument to mitigate social hardships caused by climate action) |
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concerning § 6 III: European Commission, Renewable Energy Directive (explanations) |
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concerning § 6 V: Heise Online, Report about balcony power plants in Germany, 04.10.2024 |
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concerning § 7 I: Fridays for Future, Letzte Generation (controversial but influential climate activist organisations) |
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concerning § 7 IV: European Commission, European Climate Law (explanations) |
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concerning § 8 III: European Parliament, Fact Sheet on the Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP), 04.2025 |
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concerning § 8 IV: Stefan Gevaert, Lioba Pause, Eric Cezne, Amanda-Leigh O’Connell, Kei Otsuki, Green Hydrogen in the Global South. Opportunities & Challenges, Utrecht University 03.2023 |
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concerning § 8 V: German Environment Agency, (Call for a comprehensive) Resource Conservation Law, 21.10.2022 |