Ogłoszenia 31.01.2025 r.

1. Call for papers: International Conference "Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework" (Paryż, czerwiec 2025 r.)

W dniach 6-7 czerwca br. w Paryżu odbędzie się międzynarodowa konferencja pt. "Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework".

Wystąpienia mogą dotyczyć następujących tematów:

• Provisions in environmental agreements that highlight the use of economic leverage (e.g., the Paris Agreement’s reference to “making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development”),
• Provisions in trade and investment agreements that address the possibility of regulating the economy for environmental purposes (e.g., the right to regulate, preventing an environmental race to the bottom, etc.), or that incorporate obligations from environmental agreements (such as those stemming from the Montreal Protocol in the USMCA or the Trans-Pacific Partnership)
• New chapters in “classical” trade and investment treaties (e.g., the “sustainable development” chapters in mega-regional trade and investment agreements, or treaty chapters concerning international investment obligations, particularly in relation to the environment),
• Cross-references between ecological and economic treaties, with a focus on recent approaches to linking normative instruments (e.g., the EU-New Zealand agreement that coordinates the co-implementation of its own rules and those of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)),
• The ecological benefits of revising or denouncing old agreements or treaties (e.g., revising the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits or updating the Energy Charter Treaty to include an Annex on National Investment (NI), or denouncing agreements such as many bilateral investment treaties or the Energy Charter Treaty, first by European states and then by the European Union),
• The conclusion of environmental treaties within economic negotiation forums (e.g., the 2022 treaty on subsidies for illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing within the WTO framework) or treaties that clearly blend economic and ecological issues (e.g., the 2023 UN Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)), or economic, ecological and other issues such as cultural heritage, agriculture, human rights, indigenous rights, health, etc. (e.g. the 2024 WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Knowledge or other instruments on intellectual property),
• The environmental and economic aspects of general obligations in International Law – e.g. sources of international law, expansion of general principles, customary law, etc.
• The environmental and economic aspects of litigation in national and international fora such as the ITLOS advisory opinion, the ICJ advisory opinion, pending, and InterAmerican HR court pending opinions,
• The development of municipal law on the integration of the ecological values into economic development and their interface with international rules,
• The launch of new hybrid international negotiations (e.g., on environmental goods, trade and environmental sustainability, plastic pollution, etc.) or international negotiations which, among other aspects, have both economic and ecological implications (e.g. the human-animal interface in the framework of the current negotiation of an instrument to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response),
• New mechanisms for implementing or settling disputes related to sustainable development chapters, with particular focus on provisions addressing disputes handled by systems based on sustainable chapters and those captured by systems based on other chapters of trade and investment agreements,- Innovative proposals from States on how to link IEL and IEnvL (e.g., the 2020 US proposal on advancing sustainability goals through trade rules to create a level playing field),
• Proposals for revising standard models for economic or environmental agreements (e.g., the OECD “Future of Investment Treaties” initiative, or BIT models proposed by panel of experts within the framework of the International Institute for Sustainable Development),
• The potential for using and generalizing:

- Traditional techniques, such as the creation of compliance standards,

- Principles that are already in force but may not be fully exploited, such as the (rebuttable) presumption of conformity with WTO law for domestic measures based on international standards,

- Harmonization instruments used in other fields (e.g., the revision of multiple bilateral treaties through a multilateral convention).

Zgłoszenia (abstrakt 500-700 słów wraz z CV) należy przesyłać do 28 lutego.

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