OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework: Incremental change toward radical transformation?	67
The Common Agricultural Policy beyond 2020: A critical review in light of global environmental goals	46
Business and human rights implications of climate change litigation: Milieudefensie et al. v Royal Dutch Shell	23
Power to the people? Implications of the Clean Energy Package for the role of community ownership in Europe's energy transition	22
Is carbon dioxide removal ‘mitigation of climate change’?	22
Pharmaceutical pollution: A weakly regulated global environmental risk	21
Loss and damage and climate litigation: The case for greater interlinkage	20
Can reporting enhance transboundary water cooperation? Early insights from the Water Convention and the Sustainable Development Goals reporting exercise	20
Fifty shades of binding: Appraising the enforcement toolkit for the EU’s 2030 renewable energy targets	18
Making sense of the LULUCF Regulation: Much ado about nothing?	15
Planetary boundaries at the intersection of Earth system law, science and governance: A state‐of‐the‐art review	14
The continued effort sharing approach in EU climate law: Binding targets, challenging enforcement?	14
Achieving agricultural greenhouse gas emission reductions in the EU post‐2030: What options do we have?	11
Palm oil, the RED II and WTO law: EU sustainable biofuel policy tangled up in green?	10
Going beyond CO₂: Strengthening action on global methane emissions under the UN climate regime	10
The State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation: Distilling best practice and lessons learnt for future rights‐based climate litigation	10
Health impact assessment legislation in developing countries: A path to sustainable development?	9
Adaptability versus certainty in a carbon emissions reduction regime: An assessment of the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework	9
The EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework: How net metering slips through its net	8
The right to a healthy environment: Reconceptualizing human rights in the face of climate change	8
Zero deforestation in the Amazon: The Soy Moratorium and global forest governance	6
A water property right inventory of 60 countries	5
Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis	5
The emergence of a right to clean air: Transforming European Union law through litigation and citizen science	5
Water property rights in investor‐state contracts on extractive activities, affects water governance: An empirical assessment of 80 contracts in Africa and Asia	5

A human rights approach to energy: Realizing the rights of billions within ecological limits	5
REDD+ and forest protection on indigenous lands in the Amazon	5
To ban or not to ban carbon‐intensive materials: A legal and administrative assessment of product carbon requirements	5
China and the global water conventions in light of recent developments: Time to take a second look?	5
Public participation, indigenous peoples’ land rights and major infrastructure projects in the Amazon: The case for a human rights assessment framework	4
Protecting forests or saving trees? The EU's regulatory approach to global deforestation	4
Empowering indigenous peoples and local communities: A human rights‐based appraisal of the compliance mechanism of the Nagoya Protocol	4
Adaptation regulatory regimes to address climate change challenges in transboundary water basins: Can multilateral regionalism help?	4
Reframing the transboundary water discourse: Contextualized international law in practice	4
Coming to terms with public participation in decision making: Balancing clarity and impact in the Aarhus Convention	4
EU climate law sans frontières: The extension of the 2030 Framework to the Energy Community contracting parties	3
Enforcing transboundary water obligations through investment treaty arbitration: China, Laos and the Mekong River	3
A democratic nuclear energy transition? Public participation in nuclear activities	3
Confronting inequality beyond sustainable development: The case for eco‐human rights and differentiation	3
Payments for ecosystem services in transboundary water allocation cases: An approach for China and its neighbours	3
Are climate activists protected by the Aarhus Convention? A note on Article 3(8) Aarhus Convention and the new Rapid Response Mechanism for environmental defenders	3
COVID‐19 and Amazonia: Rights‐based approaches for the pandemic response	3
Bringing animal welfare under the umbrella of sustainable development: A legal analysis	3
Climate litigation to protect the Brazilian Amazon: Establishing a constitutional right to a stable climate	3
Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals	3
Due diligence in global value chains: Conceptualizing ‘adverse environmental impact’	3
Water security: A litmus test for international law	3
The process towards a Global Pact for the Environment at the United Nations: From legal ambition to political dilution	3
Beyond Urgenda: The role of the ECHR and judgments of the ECtHR in Dutch environmental and climate litigation	3
Human rights of minors and future generations: Global trends and EU environmental law particularities	3
The mirage of universalism in international nuclear liability law: A critical assessment 10 years after Fukushima	3
Editorial: Governing the EU's climate and energy transition through the 2030 Framework	2
Inter‐State climate technology transfer under the UNFCCC: A benefit‐sharing approach	2
Are we ready for the ship transport of CO₂ for CCS? Crude solutions from international and European law	2
Atmospheric CO₂ as a resource for renewable energy production: A European energy law appraisal of direct air capture fuels	2
State responsibility in international law for transboundary water‐related harm: The emergence of a new ecosystems‐based paradigm?	2
Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks	2
The role of an advisory opinion of ITLOS in addressing climate change: Some preliminary considerations on jurisdiction and admissibility	2
The role of proportionality in the law of transboundary waters	2
The power of the Paris Agreement in international climate litigation	2
Justifying a presumed standing for environmental NGOs: A legal assessment of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention	2