Energy and Climate Law

The ´ largest trade agreement the EU has ever concluded´ (Jean Claude Juncker) is again in peril. While the EU-MERCOSUR deal was agreed by the end of June 2019, a growing number of EU Member States are wary about ratification of the deal. The free trade deal came under intensified scrutiny in summer because of the wild fires in the Brazilian Amazonas region in the context of land clearance and the initial refusal of the Bolsonaro government to acknowledge the issue.

A string of climate law suits has been launched in Poland. Several legal actions against coal fired power plants in the country are putting Europe`s biggest producer of coal into the spotlight. By the end of September the NGO Client Earth started legal action against the company running Poland`s biggest coal fired power plant `Bełchatów´, which is well known for burning polluting lignite coal. But there are also other interesting cases.