Articles by Endrius Cocciolo
Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL), 2024
Decarbonising heating and cooling systems, significant contributors to the EU's (European Union) ... more Decarbonising heating and cooling systems, significant contributors to the EU's (European Union) energy consumption, is a complex and urgent matter. This article discusses the potential coupling of energy communities and district heating and cooling systems, particularly fourth-and fifth-generation models, in the local energy transition. The integration of new-generation district heating and cooling systems into renewable energy generation is crucial for sustainability, circular economy practices, and community-based solutions. An examination of the EU legal framework within the Fit-for-55 package elucidates how provisions from the new Energy Efficiency Directive and Renewable Energy Directive facilitate the implementation of energy communities in the heating and cooling sector. The existing enabling legislation underscores the suitability of energy communities for heating and cooling sector activities, acknowledging their transformative potential in advancing the energy transition and fostering community empowerment.
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Revista d’Estudis Autonòmics i Federals Journal of Self-Government, 2023
The monographic section, coordinated by Mariachiara Alberton and Endrius Cocciolo, is dedicated t... more The monographic section, coordinated by Mariachiara Alberton and Endrius Cocciolo, is dedicated to conducting a comparative study of governance in relation to climate change in the decentralized states of the European Union. It includes a presentation and five specific studies, which address the cases of Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and Italy. The general section comprises two articles: one focuses on proposing ways to develop the statutory competence of the Generalitat Valenciana in customary and traditional courts, while the other examines the tax leveling system in Switzerland as a potential model for reforming the regional financing system in Spain.
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Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental , 2020
Las últimas novedades legislativas autonómicas y estatales en materia de cambio climático y trans... more Las últimas novedades legislativas autonómicas y estatales en materia de cambio climático y transición energética tienen lugar en un contexto de emergencia climática a la que se ha sumado una crisis sanitaria que evidencia las relaciones de causalidad entre contaminantes de origen antrópico, cambio climático y el aumento de eventos pandémicos o epidémicos que requieren a los poderes públicos medidas urgentes. Se considera la emergencia climática como una verdadera emergencia constitucional y observa la evolución del marco político y jurídico en el que las leyes autonómicas han abierto el camino hacia un difícil pero necesario federalismo climático.
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Revista Jurídica de les Illes Balears, 2020
La Ley 10/2019, de cambio climático y transición energética de las Illes Balears, articula una se... more La Ley 10/2019, de cambio climático y transición energética de las Illes Balears, articula una serie de medidas innovadoras para hacer efectiva la estrategia de transición energética y la acción climática, en consonancia con el marco normativo y las exigencias internacionales y europeas. En el estudio se considera el encuadre competencial de Ley y la forma en que se proyectan las competencias autonómicas en el ámbito de la energía. Finalmente se analiza, de forma específica, la fundamentación de las normas que regulan el cierre de centrales térmicas no solo por su originalidad jurídica, sino por su carácter esencial para asegurar la transición energética en términos reales
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Revista Catalana de Dret Públic, 2020
La “cuestión moral” interpela al derecho público para la tarea de definir y asegurar el conjunto ... more La “cuestión moral” interpela al derecho público para la tarea de definir y asegurar el conjunto de deberes propio de los servidores públicos. Una vez contrastados los riesgos y analizadas las deficiencias de los marcos de integridad vigentes, lejos de anunciar el inevitable fracaso de la ética pública, se aboga por un necesario rearme teórico y práctico de la disciplina en su vertiente jurídica. En el artículo se defiende que la regulación de la ética pública se fundamenta en un núcleo constitucional de principios que emergen mediante la interpretación de un contexto jurídico complejo. Este núcleo de principios debe desplegarse en un amplio abanico de instrumentos de derecho administrativo, dirigidos a definir el estatus de quienes ostentan cargos públicos al servicio del interés general, con el fin de asegurar el control del poder y afianzar la legitimidad del sistema democrático.
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Revista de Investigações Constitucionais - Journal of Constitutional Research, 2019
El presente trabajo parte de la premisa que la proliferación de leyes y autoridades de transparen... more El presente trabajo parte de la premisa que la proliferación de leyes y autoridades de transparencia es una de las manifestaciones del creciente enfoque regulatorio aplicado al propio sector público conocido como regulation-inside-government. El auge de esta arquitectura administrativa ostenta además un importante valor constitucional. En el presente trabajo se lleva a cabo un estudio pormenorizado del diseño institucional de las autoridades de transparencia, tanto a nivel estatal como autonómico, con el fin de determinar los elementos que pueden favorecer su independencia e imparcialidad. Para comprobar si el despliegue de estas autoridades se encuadra en el marco teórico de la regulation-inside-government, en el artículo se han analizado tres ejes fundamentales: la naturaleza jurídica de la autoridad; la composición de la autoridad y el estatuto de los miembros que ocupan sus órganos rectores, especialmente cuando son competentes para resolver las reclamaciones en materia de acceso a la información pública; y la disposición de recursos efectivos para el cumplimiento de sus funciones. Los resultados del análisis evidencian que – más allá de la heterogeneidad de las fórmulas empleadas por los legisladores – existen requisitos necesarios y elementos que correctamente empleados pueden influir en la independencia de las autoridades de transparencia.
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Transnational Environmental Law, 2019
This article starts by questioning the capacity of the concept of sustainable development to stab... more This article starts by questioning the capacity of the concept of sustainable development to stabilize social reproduction and foster global justice. Based on interdisciplinary perspectives on global governance, it discusses the way in which global law fails to cope with the resonance of advanced capitalism in the world society and ecological systems. Our analysis focuses on the regulatory and institutional features of three interwoven functional regulatory regimes (global finance, energy and environmental protection) that demonstrate structural governance dysfunction at the expense of ecological integrity and justice in the global realm. The article further examines the capacity of global law to foster a ‘compositive’ and ‘compensatory’ contribution to global justice and the stability of the Earth System through global constitutionalism. In this context, it concludes that Neil Walker’s global law approach provides a fertile analytical framework for describing the patterns of interaction between different species of global law but proves to be particularly ‘slippery’ in its normative propositions regarding the gap between global law and justice. Drawing from the Earth System approach, we argue in favour of a global material constitutionalism recognizant of eco-systemic boundaries and socioenvironmental impacts of the global socio-economic metabolism. We consider that the gap between global law and global justice is best addressed by devising more deliberative patterns of transnational governance, as well as eco-system and human rights approaches, in order to accommodate the fair and equitable internalization of material limits across global regulatory regimes that act as functionally differentiated economic constitutions of advanced capitalism.
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La transformación de las estructuras políticas y jurídicas que plantea la nueva estrategia europe... more La transformación de las estructuras políticas y jurídicas que plantea la nueva estrategia europea para la Unión de la Energía está relacionada con las dinámicas de constitucionalización que emergen en el fragmentado panorama de los regímenes de gobernanza del capitalismo global. El estudio analiza si la estrategia desarrolla un nuevo paradigma constitucional o si persiste en un modelo de constitución económica material cuyo objetivo esencial es la construcción de un espacio homogéneo para asegurar el libre flujo energético. Sin embargo, las cuestiones constitucionales de la energía, del medio ambiente o de la economía, vistas a través de las lentes del antropoceno, brindan una nueva comprensión de las relaciones entre naturaleza y sociedad, y, por ende, un cambio hacia una nueva gubernamentalidad y la reconsideración de la visión del espacio sociopolítico y jurídico de la modernidad. El nuevo constitucionalismo ecosistémico establece límites a los poderes privados del capitalismo avanzado y articula las garantías institucionales contra las amenazas de las matrices anónimas a los sistemas planetarios.
The transformation of the political and legal structures posed by the new European strategy for an Energy Union is related to the dynamics of constitutionalisation, raised from the fragmented landscape of governance regimes of global capitalism. The article analyzes if the strategy develops a new constitutional paradigm or if it continues on the path of a material economic constitution whose main objective is the construction of a homogeneous space to ensure the free flow of energy. However, the constitutional issues of energy, environment or economy, seen through the lens of the Anthropocene, provide a new understanding of the relationship between nature and society, and therefore a shift to a new governmentality and the reconsideration of the vision of socio-political and legal space of modernity. The new ecosystemic constitutionalism sets limits to the private power of advanced capitalism and articulates the institutional guarantees against threats from anonymous matrices to the planetary systems.
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During nearly a decade, the ECJ, driven by European Commission, has confronted complex issues gen... more During nearly a decade, the ECJ, driven by European Commission, has confronted complex issues generated by public intervention of Member States in strategic companies through the so rolled "golden shares". The resulting jurisprudence - born in the historical context of the third phase of EMU and after years of massive privatizations - had the virtue of fostering free movement of capitals. However, and despite the wording of article 295 TEC, this approach eroded States' aspirations of influencing private undertakings providing services of general interest. Today, European governments try to recover lost ground intervening in global markets by several forms of corporate governance in those firms. In the light of challenges of new global economic law, all forms of public intervention should be examined, and golden shares are still a valid field of administrative experimentation. The recent ECJ judgement of 26 march 2009, might indicate an evolution in respect to traditional Court case law about golden share. New arguments of ECJ judgement might overcome public intervention analysis based only on a domestic economic context and might offer new tools for challenges posed by public intervention in global markets.
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The European Energy Market is currently under construction. In this complex process Member States... more The European Energy Market is currently under construction. In this complex process Member States have traditionally retained the power to secure each State’s energy supply as a matter of national security. However, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recently issued several judgments in which national policies are declared to be in breach of core European Union (EU) principles: free movement of capital and freedom of establishment. The article explores the risks of adopting this approach (negative integration) without a clear European regulatory framework (positive integration). Dismantling national regulatory controls without providing a true European alternative can result in a critical precedence of free market over national administrative law.
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Revista De Llengua I Dret, 2008
El estudio observa que el concepto de corrupción ha sufrido a lo largo de la historia
unas mutaci... more El estudio observa que el concepto de corrupción ha sufrido a lo largo de la historia
unas mutaciones importantes. En un arco temporal de 5.000 años la ambigüedad
de palabras como feqa, ta-tu, shohadh, do-ron o munus —que podían indicar al
mismo tiempo regalo o soborno, en épocas y sociedades en las que las relaciones
sociales asumían como normal el principio de reciprocidad— ha ido mutando hacia
términos inequívocos, tales como simonía o brybe. Hasta los umbrales del siglo
xix la doctrina religiosa ha tenido una influencia determinante en dicha mutación.
Las mutaciones describen el cambio desde la neutralidad del juicio sobre
la reciprocidad en las sociedades arcaicas, pasando por la condena de las desviaciones
de la integridad político-administrativa en los años del Watergate, hasta la
complejidad de la actual sociedad post-industrial. Del tal manera que en el estudio,
el análisis diacrónico de las mutaciones ha permitido distinguir cinco fases
diferentes en la caracterización del concepto de corrupción. Finalmente, se plantea
la consideración del concepto de corrupción pública desde la teoría del “Estado
regulador” y la teoría de la “sociedad del riesgo”, se ponen de manifiesto los límites
de la perspectiva represivo-penalista y se propone tratar los problemas de
corrupción moderna en términos regulatorios.
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Chapters (Books) by Endrius Cocciolo
Rethinking Environmental Law Connectivity, Intersections and Conflicts in the Global Environmental Crisis, 2024
This chapter delves into the intricate relationship between the plastics industry and fossil fuel... more This chapter delves into the intricate relationship between the plastics industry and fossil fuels. Despite the climate crisis, the plastics sector continues to grow, which may increase demand for fossil fuels. At present, environmental issues are addressed within specific sectors, which masks the more general consequences of fossil fuel-based plastics for health, biodiversity and the climate. Against this backdrop, the study examines the global regulatory landscape, in particular the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and its support for fossil fuel investments, which contribute to ongoing plastic production. The limitations of the ECT are contrasted with the potential of the future United Nations Treaty on Plastic Pollution, which was designed to address the plastics life cycle comprehensively. Many uncertainties surround the future Plastics Treaty, and existing policies are geared towards waste management rather than the prevention of plastics production. Therefore, an innovative Earth system law approach is proposed as a response to the mounting evidence of plastics being a substantial threat to the planet. This approach aims to establish transnational regulations that are aligned with the objective of preserving planetary integrity.
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F.J. Sanz Larruga, M. Ortiz García (Dires.), Análisis de la protección del medio marino tras una década de enfoque ecosistémico: estado actual y nuevos retos. Aranzadi, 2022
La situación de emergencia climática y crisis energética requieren una profunda revisión del mode... more La situación de emergencia climática y crisis energética requieren una profunda revisión del modelo energético y la explotación de soluciones tecnológicas a una nueva escala. La energía eólica marina flotante se presenta como una de las fórmulas más prometedora para avanzar hacia la descarbonización y la neutralidad climática. Sin embargo, el despliegue de esta energía se sitúa en la intersección entre acción climática, sostenibilidad marina, protección de la biodiversidad, generación de energía no contaminante y crecimiento económico, por ende, plantea importantes retos jurídicos que deben tener en cuenta la complejidad de la crisis planetaria. La planificación estratégica integrada y la ejecución de las medidas previstas en los planes serán factores claves de la nueva gobernanza cuya sostenibilidad se encuadra en la salud y justicia planetaria.
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J. F. Alenza García, L. Mellado Ruiz (coords.), Estudios sobre cambio climático y transición energética, 2022
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J. Gifreu Font, J.R. Fuentes Gasó (diré.), Regímenes jurídic dels governs locals de Catalunya, 2022
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Aproximaciones comparadas sobre el sector eléctrico en Iberoamérica, 2022
El capítulo analiza la coherencia del despliegue español y su consistencia con el marco político-... more El capítulo analiza la coherencia del despliegue español y su consistencia con el marco político-legislativo europeo sobre clima y energía, que constituye la matriz normativa de la transición energética. Se advierte que, la legislación europea, además de reconocer el derecho de los ciudadanos a generar y autoconsumir energía, establece el deber de los Estados Miembros de legislar para instaurar marcos jurídicos facilitadores para el autoconsumo: la eliminación de barreras administrativas, la abolición de cargas económicas, la posibilidad de obtener una compensación por la electricidad vertida en la red y el fomento del autoconsumo colectivo. La correcta transposición de estas medidas promoverá la penetración del autoconsumo en el sistema energético español.
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J.Jaria-Manzano, S. Borràs (Eds.) Global Climate Constitutionalism, Edward Elgar (in press), 2019
The chapter discusses the role of global law and constitutionalism in the ecological transition a... more The chapter discusses the role of global law and constitutionalism in the ecological transition age of the Anthropocene, focussing on the energy and financial economic systems, which hold a fundamental responsibility in the transformation of the Earth’s system and cycles beyond the favorable conditions of Holocene, that was conducive to the development of society. Against this backdrop the chapter advances the argument that an epistemological coupling between two different theoretical approaches —on one hand, the reformulation of system theory in terms of “constitutionalization of connectivity”, as proposed by Poul Kjaer and, on the other hand, new materialist onto-epistemologies— is possible and useful from a double standpoint. Indeed, the reason behind this coupling departs from the idea that the latter theoretical approach provides a specific focus on the foundation and normative density, while the former bring a refined theory on the function of global law and the metamorphosis of constitutionalism. It is argued that before the complexity faced by law in the Anthropocene time, the global legal norms’ capacity to increase the probability of connectivity across diverse legally-entrenched contexts seems to be crucial. Earth System Law (ESL) emerges against this call for a new understanding of the role of law in the global realm in order to allow the stabilization of social reproduction and to make compatible its governance and production structures with the Earth System.
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The transformation of the political and legal structures posed by the new European strategy for an Energy Union is related to the dynamics of constitutionalisation, raised from the fragmented landscape of governance regimes of global capitalism. The article analyzes if the strategy develops a new constitutional paradigm or if it continues on the path of a material economic constitution whose main objective is the construction of a homogeneous space to ensure the free flow of energy. However, the constitutional issues of energy, environment or economy, seen through the lens of the Anthropocene, provide a new understanding of the relationship between nature and society, and therefore a shift to a new governmentality and the reconsideration of the vision of socio-political and legal space of modernity. The new ecosystemic constitutionalism sets limits to the private power of advanced capitalism and articulates the institutional guarantees against threats from anonymous matrices to the planetary systems.
unas mutaciones importantes. En un arco temporal de 5.000 años la ambigüedad
de palabras como feqa, ta-tu, shohadh, do-ron o munus —que podían indicar al
mismo tiempo regalo o soborno, en épocas y sociedades en las que las relaciones
sociales asumían como normal el principio de reciprocidad— ha ido mutando hacia
términos inequívocos, tales como simonía o brybe. Hasta los umbrales del siglo
xix la doctrina religiosa ha tenido una influencia determinante en dicha mutación.
Las mutaciones describen el cambio desde la neutralidad del juicio sobre
la reciprocidad en las sociedades arcaicas, pasando por la condena de las desviaciones
de la integridad político-administrativa en los años del Watergate, hasta la
complejidad de la actual sociedad post-industrial. Del tal manera que en el estudio,
el análisis diacrónico de las mutaciones ha permitido distinguir cinco fases
diferentes en la caracterización del concepto de corrupción. Finalmente, se plantea
la consideración del concepto de corrupción pública desde la teoría del “Estado
regulador” y la teoría de la “sociedad del riesgo”, se ponen de manifiesto los límites
de la perspectiva represivo-penalista y se propone tratar los problemas de
corrupción moderna en términos regulatorios.
Chapters (Books) by Endrius Cocciolo
The transformation of the political and legal structures posed by the new European strategy for an Energy Union is related to the dynamics of constitutionalisation, raised from the fragmented landscape of governance regimes of global capitalism. The article analyzes if the strategy develops a new constitutional paradigm or if it continues on the path of a material economic constitution whose main objective is the construction of a homogeneous space to ensure the free flow of energy. However, the constitutional issues of energy, environment or economy, seen through the lens of the Anthropocene, provide a new understanding of the relationship between nature and society, and therefore a shift to a new governmentality and the reconsideration of the vision of socio-political and legal space of modernity. The new ecosystemic constitutionalism sets limits to the private power of advanced capitalism and articulates the institutional guarantees against threats from anonymous matrices to the planetary systems.
unas mutaciones importantes. En un arco temporal de 5.000 años la ambigüedad
de palabras como feqa, ta-tu, shohadh, do-ron o munus —que podían indicar al
mismo tiempo regalo o soborno, en épocas y sociedades en las que las relaciones
sociales asumían como normal el principio de reciprocidad— ha ido mutando hacia
términos inequívocos, tales como simonía o brybe. Hasta los umbrales del siglo
xix la doctrina religiosa ha tenido una influencia determinante en dicha mutación.
Las mutaciones describen el cambio desde la neutralidad del juicio sobre
la reciprocidad en las sociedades arcaicas, pasando por la condena de las desviaciones
de la integridad político-administrativa en los años del Watergate, hasta la
complejidad de la actual sociedad post-industrial. Del tal manera que en el estudio,
el análisis diacrónico de las mutaciones ha permitido distinguir cinco fases
diferentes en la caracterización del concepto de corrupción. Finalmente, se plantea
la consideración del concepto de corrupción pública desde la teoría del “Estado
regulador” y la teoría de la “sociedad del riesgo”, se ponen de manifiesto los límites
de la perspectiva represivo-penalista y se propone tratar los problemas de
corrupción moderna en términos regulatorios.
identifican los problemas y se indican los desafíos planteados por la reforma del sistema financiero global.
The social and technological development of the past decades has outgrown the traditional schemes of international governance, based on the Westphalian model. Even though nation-states maintain their formal status in the global political arena, social movements, markets and technologies increasingly are developing beyond. For this reason, governance gaps are multiplying. Global financial markets and climate change are two paradigmatic areas where these gaps are most visible. The sheer inability of traditional institutions to cope with new social and technological realities, and thus, the lack of transparency and accountability of the key actors in the aforementioned areas disrupt any meaningful policy that pursues the (global) common good. Taking financial markets and environmental policies as outstanding examples, this paper explores the suitability of cosmopolitan, communitarian and trans-civilizational approaches to international law as a way to tackle the aforementioned governance gaps. In this context, global constitutionalism is gaining momentum as a hermeneutic matrix to reconceptualize international law. Since the liberal revolutions of 18th century, constitutionalism has to do with two main concerns: limitation of power, and citizenship —basically built around the core idea of constitutional rights—. Globalization poses the problem anew, with significant shadowed areas where power is not clearly limited, there is no real accountability and social inequities tend to consolidate. In this setting, global constitutionalism advocates for a new order in which more open, representative and participative law-making and law-enforcing processes and institutions shape an international economic system that fosters more equitable patterns of exchange and is also more sensitive for values such as ecological integrity and human dignity. Its deliberative facet actually seems to allow the integration of counter-hegemonic claims into the collective discernment of competing notions of the common good. Yet, from a TWAIL perspective, some aspects of global constitutionalism are probably still very close to hegemonic or imperialistic narratives of international law. For this reason it is important to have an open perspective, which integrates pluralism in the constitutional framework. Defining processes of control of power and a global but plural community is the starting point for a constitutional integrative framework for global governance, addressing gaps as important as those of financial markets and ecological exchange.
From a methodological perspective, our paper elucidates interdisciplinary methods from sociology and ecological economics through notions such as global social metabolism, material flow analysis and ecologically unequal exchange as interesting tools for the reassessment the role of equity, or other more specific criteria (entitlements, capacities, needs, historical responsibilities, valuation, incommensurability, etc.), for the conceptualisation and interpretation of core principles of international law and, hence, the obligations that states assume in the conduct of international economic relations and the design of institutional models suitable to bring in other actors, such as NGO’s or indigenous peoples. At the same time, a pivotal significance is ascribed to less normative approaches (e.g. law in context) that acknowledge the legal pluralism of the global society.
The new renewable energy target will be binding for the EU but this would not be translated into national targets via EU legislation. This shift from binding targets for the sake of national flexibility shows that the principle of sovereignty continues to shape the decisions on energy mix and preferences. The commitments will be collectively met by a new governance process that would require a major effort to coordinate national plans and a bet for a cooperative approach, on the other hand, the core of renewable energy policy will rest on support to free market forces and undistorted competition. This new governance will try to manage a complex variable geometry regime, trying to join together the sustainability targets, the security issues and the economic interests at different levels. If the policy consistency and the sustainability issue are to be taken seriously, it may be a problem to entrust the energy and climate governance mechanisms to the market discipline.
While the EU steps back from state-level accountability in favour of an EU wide “mandate”, utilities and fossil fuel providers in the US push for a relaxation of state-level renewable generation mandates as well as distributed power incentives such as net metering. Thus far these efforts have been largely ineffectual but it is expected that they will intensify during the next few years. The lack of a clear and aggressive renewable energy policy in the US on the Federal level adds to the challenge. Even in the absence of a specific renewable energy mandate, the US Federal government could take steps to encourage individual states to develop and retain significant state-level mandates and incentives.
Australia’s new government has retained its international commitment to emission reductions but its actions since coming into power in September 2013 undermine this commitment. It intends to abolish the carbon price from July 2014 and its first move on gaining government was to abolish the Climate Commission, an independent body of scientists set up to update the government on climate change. It intends to meet its emission reduction targets through a direct action plan, which has as its centerpiece, a fund to support least-cost emission reductions. In Australia, there have been mandatory renewable energy targets at both the state and federal level. The Federal Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) of 2% renewable by 2010 was introduced in 2001 and was reached well in advance of 2010. In 2009 it was increased to 20% by 2020. South Australia is the leading Australian state for renewable energy generation. In 2011, it reached its renewable energy target of 20% three years ahead of schedule. Its 2030 target is 33%.
However, as renewable energy sources of electricity generation become less expensive and more prevalent, there is increased resistance from traditional energy providers. This has been the situation in both the Australia and the US. In the US, the result has been potential retrenchment of renewable energy policy on all levels. The Australian government has just now announced a review of MRET headed by a known climate sceptic, and there is concern that the renewable energy target will be wound back.
These are worrying signs for the renewable energy industries in these jurisdictions. This paper will compare the three jurisdictions to consider what lessons can be learnt in terms of governance structures needed to support renewable energy industries.
The text underscores the interconnectedness of various physical processes on a planetary scale, producing a complex web of interactions that challenge traditional perceptions of environmental dynamics. This complexity presents formidable challenges to the field of environmental studies, demanding interdisciplinary collaboration and a departure from traditional legal paradigms rooted in sectoral and jurisdictional boundaries.
Furthermore, the book emphasises the role of complexity in fostering connectivity between legal orders and sectors and other disciplines, as well as giving rise to conflicts within environmental law. It highlights the need for legal scholars and practitioners to transcend specialised knowledge silos, embrace interdisciplinary exchanges, and acknowledge the significance of conflict as a source of legal innovation.
The volume draws upon insights and selected contributions presented at the 9th European Environmental Law Forum, held in 2022 in Tarragona, Spain. These contributions have been meticulously elaborated into chapters that capture the depth and breadth of the debates held during the conference. Readers will gain valuable insights into the multifaceted challenges posed by the earth system's complexity to contemporary environmental law.
The book is divided into two main parts. The first explores the themes of "connections", addressing critical intersections between climate change, biodiversity loss, air pollution, energy systems, circular economy, and more. It delves into the need for legal frameworks to adapt to and address these intricate connections, providing practical insights and recommendations.
The second part of the book delves into the realm of "conflicts and frictions", shedding light on the challenges arising from the complex and multifaceted nature of environmental issues. It delves into topics such as technological innovation, legal constraints, environmental damage compensation, and climate litigation, offering a nuanced understanding of these critical areas.
Ultimately, this book serves as a comprehensive resource for scholars, practitioners, and anyone interested in the transformative role of environmental law when addressing the global environmental crisis and navigating the transition to a new geological era. As society grapples with the complexities of the Anthropocene, rethinking environmental law becomes imperative, and this volume provides valuable insights into that vital process.
de qualitat que vulgui ser competitiu en l'esfera internacional, ambiciós en els seus objectius col·lectius i eficient en la utilització dels seus recursos públics necessita una
administració responsable, íntegra, transparent i lleial amb els interessos públics. En aquesta obra, que no pot ser ni és exhaustiva, s'analitzen alguns dels elements del bon govern local i els factors de desviació dels interessos generals. Aquesta perspectiva abraça, més enllà de les qüestions inherents a l‘accountability i a la transparència, la
consideració de temes estructurals, com són les institucions i els procediments de presa de decisions públiques, sense oblidar l'examen i la reflexió sobre els principis ètics que
tracen les coordenades de l'acció pública. Aquesta aproximació analítica als sectors i a les activitats administratives ens han proporcionat els fonaments teòrics i els elements
diagnòstics a partir dels quals s'ha redactat un Codi de bon govern local que pugui servir com a base per a l'adopció dels oportuns instruments normatius locals.
El libro se estructura básicamente en cinco capítulos.
En el primer capítulo, se presenta la legislación española que rige las concesiones de autopistas de peaje, desde la vetusta Ley 8/1972 hasta la más moderna Ley de Contratos del Sector Público, Ley 30/2007. También se analiza la legislación autonómica catalana así como la estructura del sector en España.
En el capítulo segundo, se realiza la misma contextualización legal para el ordenamiento italiano.
En el capítulo tercero, analiza la Decisión de la Comisión sobre las condiciones de competencia que implican el proyectó de fusión.
El capítulo cuarto, presenta la posición de la Administración italiana ante la fusión y la doctrina de los poderes implícitos.
El libro se cierra con unas breves consideraciones a modo de conclusión donde se analizan varios aspectos: naturaleza jurídica de las empresas concesionarias de autopistas, operadores privados a medio camino entre el poder público y el libre mercado, los mecanismos de intervención administrativa ante las operaciones de concentración económica como la descrita, la relación entre la regulación sectorial y libre competencia."