témavezető: Horváth Zsuzsanna
helyszín (magyar oldal): PTE ÁJK Nemzetközi- és Európajogi Tanszék helyszín rövidítés: AJK
A kutatási téma leírása:
Environmental protection and sustainable development are outstanding priorities of international, European and national policies. During the last fifty years, legal regulation of environmental protection has considerably been developed, international environmental organizations have been established, environmental programmes, researches have been launched, numerous international conventions and documents have been adopted (recently more than 300 multilateral and 1200 bilateral international conventions are in force). The environmental policy of the European Union has become a determinative factor at international level; now the Union is a leading force in international environmental protection, its programmes and law (more than 300 legal acts) profoundly affect the environmental policies and laws of the Member States, including Hungary.
In spite of these efforts degradation of the environment couldn’t be stopped, which has already warned us of environmental limits to economic growth. Mankind has to face various global environmental challenges: the most important are, perhaps, climate change and its consequences that are already present in almost all segments of our everyday life: e.g. depletion of energy resources, shortages in clean drinking water, declining of biological diversity, etc.
Since the 1960’s the international community has been making efforts to solve these problems. Environmental policies of different levels are governed by the concept of sustainable development, the ability of future generations to meet their own needs for development, which concept was transformed into a programme at the Earth Summit, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (WCED) at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The European Union’s sustainability process was started in Lisbon in 2000; it resulted in the EU Sustainable Development Strategy adopted in 2001 and revised in 2006, which strongly links together economic development, social policy and environmental protection. This strategy is interconnected with the Cardiff integration process, started in 1998, which integrates the environmental dimension into various policy sectors. The key priorities of the Fifth and Sixth Environmental Action Programmes of the European Union were sustainable development and environmental integration. The Seventh General Union Environment Action Programme to 2020 “Living well within the limits of our planet”, adopted in November 2013, aims, inter alia, to turn the Union into a boost sustainable, resource-efficient, green and competitive low-carbon economy, and to improve environmental integration and policy coherence, and the way environmental concerns and requirements are reflected in other policies.
Within the framework of these programmes integration strategies have been drafted in various policy sectors of the EU, and thematic strategies have been developed, e.g. in the following areas: protection of nature and biological diversity, conservation and rational utilisation of natural resources, protection of human health, quality of life, waste management, energy policy, etc.
One of the important areas of sustainable development is consumption and production, where a considerable change in unsustainable patterns is an urgent task at international as well as at European level. The European Union has launched its integrated product policy in 2001, which, besides production and waste phases, concentrates on the whole life cycle of products, prior to and after the production phase, i.e. choice of raw materials and energy, product design and primarily, the use phase. The rich set of voluntary and regulatory tools of encouraging sustainable production and consumption with the application of the life-cycle concept supplements the already existing product oriented measures, aiming at decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.
In the outcome document of the latest UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 to 22 June 2012) titled “The future we want”, the Heads of State and Government of participatory countries renewed their commitment to sustainable development and to ensuring the promotion of an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future for the planet and for present and future generations; they urged to develop a green economy and the institutional framework for sustainable development.
The PhD programme on International and European Environmental Policy and Law includes various issues for lectures, discussions and researches.
The international part contains, inter alia, the following themes: development of international environmental policy; international environmental conferences, organizations and movements; goals and principles of international environmental policy; the UN Environmental Programme; international environmental cooperation, important international environmental treaties and conventions; specialities of international environmental law; various areas of fight against global environmental challenges, e.g. protection of the ozone layer, climate change; protection of biological diversity; dangerous wastes; GMOs; the role of science in environmental policy, the principle of precaution; environmental liability; etc.
The European Union part includes, inter alia, the following themes: establishment of the EU environmental policy; the EU Environmental Action Programmes; objectives and principles of the EU environmental policy; development of the EU environmental law; role of the EU institutions in this policy area; special characteristics of the EU environmental law; horizontal measures of the EU environmental policy, such as access to environmental information, environmental impact assessment, integrated pollution prevention and control, environmental management system (EMAS), eco-label, liability for environmental damage, financing, European Environmental Agency, etc.; implementation of EU environmental law, the role of the Commission and the Member States in it; sectoral environmental policies and their legal regulation, e.g. water, air and nature protection, the EU climate change policy, chemical policy (REACH system), waste management policy, special waste streams, etc.; the role of the Court of Justice of the EU in the development of environmental policy and law; the EU Sustainable Development Strategy; the environmental integration process in the EU; the EU Integrated Product Policy (sustainable industrial policy); connections between economic growth, competitiveness and environmental protection, etc.
felvehető hallgatók száma: 10
Jelentkezési határidő: 2017-06-13
2024. IV. 17. ODT ülés Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).
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