The German Federal Climate Change Act

Book cover titled 'Współczesne Wyzwania Prawa Ochrony Klimatu', edited by Maria Magdalena Kenig-Witkowska, Anna Barczak, and Marcin Stoczkiewicz. The cover has a simple design with a white background and a blue section at the bottom. The publisher's logo, Wolters Kluwer, is visible at the lower left corner.

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The German Federal Climate Change Act

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Sina, Stephan: The German Federal Climate Change Act. In: Barczak, Anna et al. (eds) 2024: Współczesne wyzwania prawa ochrony klimatu. Warsaw: Wolters Kluwer Polska.

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As an output of the international academic conference "Towards the Polish Climate Protection Act" on 7 September 2022 in Szczecin, an edited volume entitled "Współczesne Wyzwania Prawa Ochony Klimatu" (Contemporary challenges of climate law) was published by Wolters Kluwer Poland. Its editors are Anna Barczak (University of Szczecin), Maria Magdalena Kenig-Witkowska (University of Warsaw) and Marcin Stoczkiewicz (Client Earth Poland). The volume comprises a collection of essays by legal practitioners and researchers on important issues of contemporary climate law, including analysis of climate laws and court rulings from a national (mostly Polish), EU and international perspective. In particular, it includes an essay on key assumptions of the Polish draft framework act on climate protection prepared by Client Earth Poland, which is presented in the annex. All but two essays are in Polish language.

Stephan Sina, Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute, contributed an essay on the German Federal Climate Change Act in English language. He describes the development and main features of the Act and its revision based on the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on 24 March 2021, presents lessons learnt and good practices and addresses challenges.

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Współczesne wyzwania prawa ochrony klimatu
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17 pp.
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978-83-8358-548-2
978-83-8358-832-2 (pdf)
978-83-8358-833-9 (epub)
978-83-8358-834-6 (mobi)
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Climate Change Law, Federal Climate Change Act (KSG), EU, environmental law, Ecologic Legal, Governance
Poland, Europe, Germany
PresentationPanel discussionThe German Federal Climate Change Act
 

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Dr. Stephan Sina, Senior Fellow of Ecologic Institute, gave a speech at the international academic conference "Towards the Polish Climate Protection Act" on 7 September 2022 in Szczecin (Poland). He presented the main features of the German Federal Climate Change Act... Read more

Panel discussion:The German Federal Climate Change Act

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Dr. Stephan Sina, Senior Fellow of Ecologic Institute, presented two case studies on German climate change acts at workshops in Beijing, and discussed with Chinese experts from governmental and municipal departments and universities on Chinese and German climate... Read more

Speech:German Climate Change Acts

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PublicationArticleDas Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz
 
Dr. Stephan Sina, Senior Fellow at Ecologic Legal, has published an article on the Federal Climate Protection Act in the first edition of this year's Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht (NVwZ). The contribution is a joint effort by several authors, two of them... Read more

Scharlau/von Swieykowski-Trzaska/Keimeyer/Klinski/Sina, Das Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz, NVwZ 2020, 1

PublicationArticleThe German Federal Constitutional Court's Decision on the Climate Change Act
 
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The German Federal Constitutional Court's decision of March 2021 declared the Climate Change Act partially unconstitutional because it did not sufficiently protect fundamental rights. While the Court upheld the Act's objective of climate neutrality by 2050 and emission... Read more

Bodle, R., & Sina, S.; The German Federal Constitutional Court's Decision on the Climate Change Act. Carbon & Climate Law Review. Volume 16, Issue 1 (2022); pp. 18 - 24; DOI: https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2022/1/5

PublicationDocumentStellungnahme zum Gesetzentwurf der Landesregierung für ein Hessisches Gesetz zur Förderung des Klimaschutzes und zur Anpassung an die Folgen des Klimawandels
 

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Stephan Sina 2022: Stellungnahme zum Gesetzentwurf der Landesregierung für ein Hessisches Gesetz zur Förderung des Klimaschutzes und zur Anpassung an die Folgen des Klimawandels (Hessisches Klimagesetz - HKlimaG) – Drucks. 20/9276 –1. Berlin: Ecologic Institut. ... Read more

Stephan Sina 2022: Stellungnahme zum Gesetzentwurf der Landesregierung für ein Hessisches Gesetz zur Förderung des Klimaschutzes und zur Anpassung an die Folgen des Klimawandels (Hessisches Klimagesetz - HKlimaG) – Drucks. 20/9276 –1. Berlin: Ecologic Institut.