This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's Impact Assessment (IA) accompanying the proposal for a Directive on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects in the environment. This proposal itself deals with...

In the 1930s, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were developed as safe, non-reactive alternatives to toxic and explosive refrigerants and propellants such as ammonia, chloromethane, and sulfur dioxide. American engineer Thomas Midgley famously demonstrated these properties by inhaling Freon (CFC-12)...

Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 2012, describes trends in economic, structural, resource, and environmental indicators in the agriculture sector, focusing on changes since the release of Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 2006. These indicators are useful...

The ACTOM toolbox is designed to provide value over a range of field cases with diverse subsurface geology and environmental marine characteristics. Whereas the end-product of the toolbox is to aid users in defining a monitoring plan that will satisfy local stakeholders, one intermediate outcome...

Climate change jurisprudence is susceptible to transnational borrowing - it develops incrementally, and diagonally, and the decisions of lower-courts, and even overturned judgements, influence rulings in other jurisdictions. People v Arctic Oil is a full-bench judgement and decision delivered by...