OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of the Paris Agreement on Climate Litigation: Legal Obligations and Norms (Part I)∗	21
COVID-19 and Wildlife Farming in China: Legislating to Protect Wild Animal Health and Welfare in the Wake of a Global Pandemic	16
Net Zero for the International Shipping Sector? An Analysis of the Implementation and Regulatory Challenges of the IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions	15
The ‘Advance Interference-Like Effect’ of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court	13
Carbon Border Adjustment Measures: A Straightforward Multi-Purpose Climate Change Instrument?	12
Rights of Nature in Practice: A Case Study on the Impacts of the Colombian Atrato River Decision	11
The First Climate Judgment before the Norwegian Supreme Court: Aligning Law with Politics	11
How to Reach a Safe Circular Economy?—Perspectives on Reconciling the Waste, Product and Chemicals Regulation	10
Vietnam’s Regulations to Prevent Pollution from Plastic Waste: A Review Based on the Circular Economy Approach	9
The Wicked Problem of Diffuse Nutrient Pollution from Agriculture	9
Just Transition as an Evolving Concept in International Climate Law	7
The Influence of the Paris Agreement on Climate Litigation: Causation, Corporate Governance and Catalyst (Part II)	7
Environmental Policy in Good and Bad Times: The Countercyclical Effects of Carbon Taxes and Cap-and-Trade	6
COVID-19, Climate Change Action and the Road to Green Recovery	5
Trading Plastic Waste in a Global Economy: Soundly Regulated by the Basel Convention?	5
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Findings from 570 Court Cases Brought by NGOs, Public Prosecutors and Local Government	5
Recent Youth-Led and Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation in Canada: Reconciling Justiciability, Charter Claims and Procedural Choices	4
The Impact of the European Landscape Convention on Landscape Planning in Spain, Italy and England	4
The Intergenerational Effect of Fundamental Rights: A Contribution of the German Federal Constitutional Court to Climate Protection	4
Tort to the Environment: A Stretch Too Far or a Simple Step Forward?	4
Voluntary Ecolabels in International Trade Law: A Case Study of the EU Ecolabel	4
The Contribution of Urgenda to the Mitigation of Climate Change	4
Scientific and Legal Mechanisms for Addressing Model Uncertainties: Negotiating the Right Balance in Finnish Judicial Review?	3
Temperature Targets and State Obligations on the Mitigation of Climate Change	3
Biodiversity Offsetting and the English Planning System: A Regulatory Analysis	3

Systemic Climate Change Litigation, Standing Rules and the Aarhus Convention: A Purposive Approach	3
A Brave New World: The Aarhus Convention in Tempestuous Times	3
Transnational Experts Wanted: Nigerian Oil Spills before the Dutch Courts	3
Regulating Trade in Forest-Risk Commodities: Two Cheers for the European Union	3
In the Name of Legitimacy and Efficiency: Evaluating China’s Legal Reform on EIA	3
The Impact-based Regulatory Strategy in Environmental Law: Hallmark of Effectiveness or Pitfall for Legitimacy?	2
Climate Disruption in Canadian Constitutional Law: References Re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act	2
African Courts and Principles of International Environmental Law: A Kenyan and South African Case Study	2
The Role of Narrative in Environmental Law: The Nature of Tales and Tales of Nature	2
‘Seeing the Wood for the Trees’: Revisiting the Consistency of Australia’s Illegal Logging Act with the Law of the World Trade Organization	2
The Complexities of Comparative Climate Constitutionalism	2
The European Climate Law: Strengthening EU Procedural Climate Governance?	2
Environment and the Law: The Normative Force of Context and Constitutional Challenges	2
Assessing the Impact of the Habitats Directive: A Case Study of Europe’s Plants	2
Environmental Force Majeure: Relief from Fossil Energy Contracts in the Decarbonisation Era	2
Certifying Biodiversity: The Union for Ethical BioTrade and the Search for Ethical Sourcing	2
Climate Change, Fundamental Rights, and Statutory Interpretation	2
From Extra-Territorial Leverage and Transnational Environmental Protection to Distortions of Competition: The Level Playing Field in the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement	2
Rethinking Clean Air: Air Quality Law and COVID-19	2