Legal Policy on Natural Resources and the Environment in the European Union and Germany Contribution to the course Politik Hukum Agraria dan Lingkungan Hidup (MIH) |
30.12.25 |
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Semester 1, 2025/26 (MIH); Thursday, 30.09. and 07.10.2025, 10:00 - 11:40, and 14.10.2025, 16.00 - 17:40, room B.2.4 |
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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 September and October 2025. They complement those of my colleagues Dr. Fajar Winarni and Dr. Any Andjarwati from a comparative perspective.
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Slides presented in
the lectures (®
aids for illustration) |
Contents (summary/details)
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§ 1 General aspects |
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§ 2 The European environmental policy and the Green Deal |
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§ 3 General climate protection policy |
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§ 4 Energy and environmental law policy |
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§ 5 Anti-deforestation policy |
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§ 6 Other issues under discussion |
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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Buzogány, Aron; Parks, Louisa; Torney, Diarmuid: Democracy and the European Green Deal, Journal of European Integration 47 (2025), p. 135 ff., doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2025.2459859 |
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Buysing Damsté, Claudia ; Kinghorn, Ron; Kuo, Ivy (PWC): How the EU’s Green Deal is driving business reinvention, 23.10.2024 |
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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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Frank-Fahle, Constantin; Falder, Roland: Die EU Entwaldungsverordnung – The EU Deforestation Regulation: Ein Praxisleitfaden auf Deutsch und English – A Practical Guide in German and English, 2025 |
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Rayner, Tim; Sculezki, Kacper; Jordan, Andrew J.; Oberthür, Sebastian (editors): Handbook on European Union Climate Change Policy and Politics, 2023 |
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Sandulli, Elena: Forest conservation as a common concern: EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products in the light of public international law, Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 35 (2025), p. 89 ff., doi.org/10.1111/reel.12597 |
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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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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
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International law: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992 (UNFCCC), Kyoto Protocol of 1997 with Doha Amendment of 2012, Paris Agreement of 2015 |
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Law of the European Union: Treaty on European Union (= EU Treaty), Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (= FEU Treaty), European Climate Law (Regulation 2021/1119), Effort Sharing Regulation (Regulation 2018/842), Governance Regulation (Regulation 2018/1999), Emissions Trading Directive (Directive 2003/87), Renewable Energy Directive (Directive 2018/2001), Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (= EUDR; Regulation 2023/1115) |
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German laws in English translation: Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany [Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) (= BL), Federal Climate Action Act [Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz] |
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Political Documents: European Commission, Communication "The European Green Deal" (COM/2019/640 final) |
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Institutions: European Commission (special websites on energy, climate change and environment), Umweltbundesamt [German Environment Agency] (with websites in English on topics of energy, natural resources, climate and environment) |
B. Links concerning special subjects
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concerning § 1 II: Federal Constitutional Court, Climate Protection Decision (BVerfGE 157, 30) |
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concerning § 1 III: European Commission, Climate disinformation (information, tips and tools for countering climate disinformation); UNDP, What are climate misinformation and disinformation and how can we tackle them?, 2025 |
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concerning § 2 III: European Commission, The European Green Deal, 2024; European Council, European Green Deal, 2025 |
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concerning § 2 IV, § 3 II: European Commission, European Climate Law (explanations); European Commission, Social Climate Fund (about an instrument to mitigate social hardships caused by climate action) |
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concerning § 3 II: German Environment Agency (editor), Factsheet Emissions Trading in Europe, 2024 |
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concerning § 4 III: European Commission, Renewable Energy Directive (explanations) |
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concerning § 4 IV: Heise Online, Report about balcony power plants in Germany, 04.10.2024 |
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concerning § 5: European Commission: Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (explanations); topical: Hatma Suryatmojo, Severe Sumatra Flash Floods Driven by Upper Watershed Forest Degradation, UGM News Report 02.12.2025 |