Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law

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Ecolaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature, By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, x + 128 pp.	37
Reimagining prosperity: Toward a new imaginary of law and political economy in the EU by MarijaBartl, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 254 pp	28
Area‐based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement: Ambition or illusion?	24
When corporate laws meet climate loss: The practical challenges of shareholder‐led climate litigation	23
The international climate change regime and general principles of law	18
Favourable conservation status: EU Court clarifies crucial yardstick for wildlife preservation and restoration in wave of wolf cases	14
Politics and International Law: Making, Breaking, and Upholding Global Rules By LeslieJohns, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 560.	13
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Justifying a presumed standing for environmental NGOs: A legal assessment of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention	12
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Tempering great expectations: The legitimacy constraints and the conflict function of international courts in international climate litigation	12
Navigating electricity network congestion: An examination of a principle‐based regulatory theory and strategy	11
Nature and the law: In defence of a pluriversal, more‐than‐human approach	10
Redesigning mineral regimes to strengthen the environmental rule of law: A case study on lithium in brines	10
The sea level rise part of the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion : Rapid‐reaction assessment and possible ways forward	9
Successful conservation and management of kelp forests requires more ambitious use of international law	9
The International Court of Justice on the mitigation obligations in the Paris Agreement	8
Farming and biochar in the EU and the road to sustainability: Drawing connections through the Common Agricultural Policy and the regulation of organic and carbon farming	8
Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom	8
Towards minilateral climate governance? Analysing climate club design options through the lens of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities	8
Do Just Energy Transition Partnerships collide or converge with substantive investment law standards? Case studies from Indonesia and Vietnam	8
A quest for agency in the Anthropocene: Law and environmental movements in Southeast Asia	7
Accelerating the EU's climate transformation: The European Green Deal's Fit for 55 Package unpacked	7
Reassessing environmental protection in international investment agreements: The case of Vietnam	7
Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks	7

The Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law, By MingDuOxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 256 pp.	7
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Navigating the hydrogen landscape: An analysis of hydrogen support mechanisms in the US and the EU	7
Data governance for the ecological transition: An infrastructure perspective	7
Liminal phases and electronic waste: Interrogating temporality in international law	7
Deposit return schemes of EU Member States and the EU's internal market	6
Non‐refoulement and climate change‐induced displacement: Regional and international cross‐fertilization?	6
Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law, By Natalie LDobson, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 267 pp.	6
Climate‐related migration practices from the Cancun Adaptation Framework to the Australia‐Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty: Implications for the international legal regime	6
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Reflexive EU environmental law: Exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single‐use Plastics Directive	6
Biofuel restrictions and indirect land‐use change: What does the WTO say?	6
The direct application and potential indirect contribution of space law for solar radiation modification governance	5
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Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis	5
Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v Bolivia): Is the International Court of Justice falling short?	5
Domestic entities and access and benefit‐sharing: A legal critique of Divya Pharmacy v Union of India	5
Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and Their Bodies By IyanOffor, Routledge. 2023. 320 pp.	5
Integrating environmental sustainability into EU data law and governance: The case of health data	5
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Forest conservation as a common concern: EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products in the light of public international law	5
Correction to “Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway”	5
United Nations recognition of the universal right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment: An eyewitness account	5
The COP27 decision and future directions for loss and damage finance: Addressing vulnerability and non‐economic loss and damage	4
Strengthening international climate law through regional trade agreements: Towards concretisation, adjudication and enforcement?	4
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A legal study of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's new Environmental and Social Framework	4
Using socio‐economic analysis and the safe‐and‐sustainable‐by‐design concept to balance costs and benefits in the circular economy	4
The implications of seabed mining in the Area for the human right to health	4
The Energy Charter Treaty: Letting the sun set on sunset clauses	4
Piecing together the jigsaw: Forests in the EU's Fit for 55 Package	4
Strengthening the complaint mechanisms of multilateral climate funds and carbon markets: A critical step towards a human rights‐based green transition	4
The right to climate protection and the essentially comparable protection of fundamental rights: Applying Solange in European climate change litigation?	4
Energy and the environment: Exploring the nexus under international economic law By SherzodShadikhodjaev, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. pp. 387. $135.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781316517444	3
Prospects for invoking the law of self‐determination in international climate litigation	3
International law and the history of resource extraction in Africa: Capital accumulation and underdevelopment, 1450–1918 by George ForjiAmin, Routledge, 2024, pp. 296.	3
A framework for the assessment of alternative uses in international water law	3
Taking the current when it serves: Prospects and challenges for an ITLOS advisory opinion on oceans and climate change	3
A paper tiger in the fog of governance: Norway's riddle in biodiversity matters	3
Climate change adaptation in water law: International, EU and Finnish perspectives	3
Beyond the North–South divide: Litigation's role in resolving climate change loss and damage claims	3
The nature of nature: Why the promotion of plural values of nature could pose transition risks and influence nature‐related financial disclosure	2
Who pays for PFAS contamination? A comparative analysis of environmental liability in the US and Sweden	2
Climate advisory committees in European climate governance: Expertise, representation and co‐production	2
What can climate change litigation learn from socio‐economic rights litigation?	2
Calibrating states' emissions reduction due diligence obligations with reference to the right to life	2
From ‘well below 2°C’ to 1.5°C: The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change	2
European approaches to wastewater reuse regulation: A comparison between Spain, Malta and the Netherlands	2
The European Court of Human Right's landmark judgment in the case of Cannavacciuolo and Others v Italy	2
Navigating the legal uncertainty around the governance of an integrated energy system using the values of the energy transition and energy justice	2

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Scrutinizing net zero: The legal problems of counting greenhouse gas emissions, removals and offsets together	2
When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management of Regional Courts By Marie‐CatherinePetersmann, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 316.	2
The role of energy communities for thermal networks: An EU legal perspective	2
Climate change, cattle, and the international legal order By RebeccaWilliams, London: Hart. 2024. pp. 227.£76.50 (hbk). ISBN: 9781509968596	2
Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes: Regulatory Coherence, Due Regard, and Due Diligence By Caroline E.Foster, Oxford University Press. 2021. xxx + 375 pp.	2
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The regulatory landscape of ship recycling: Justice, environmental principles and the European Union as a global leader by IoannaHadjiyianni and KleonikiPouikli. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar publishing. 2	2
The private non‐state actor financing mechanism for restoration under the Convention on Biological Diversity: The case of China	2
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The role of an advisory opinion of ITLOS in addressing climate change: Some preliminary considerations on jurisdiction and admissibility	2
A duty to assess an oil project's downstream greenhouse gas emissions: The UK Supreme Court in Finch	1
Liability of shipowners and classification societies for environmental damage and unsafe working conditions at recycling yards	1
Not easy to ‘green’ old ways: National courts and rights‐based smog cases in Poland	1
Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal Rules, By NicolasDe Sadeleer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 2020, 592 pp	1
The result‐oriented due diligence obligation in the ITLOS Climate Change Advisory Opinion: Developments and implications	1
Support for young farmers in the European Union: How much discretion for Member States?	1
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Public Interest Litigation in International Law By JustineBendel and YusraSuedi (Eds.), Routledge. 2023. 354 pp.	1
The public–private governance regime on sustainable ship recycling: An in‐depth analysis	1
Situating the ICJ's advisory opinion in the wider ecosystem of international climate litigation	1
Human rights and climate wrongs: Mapping the landscape of rights‐based climate litigation	1
Global developments in the regulation of cultivated meat: A comparative study of the EU, Singapore, US and Australia and New Zealand	1
Flaring reduction solutions: How Norway, the US and Russia regulate flaring to mitigate black carbon emissions in the Arctic	1
The Dutch nitrogen crisis: Will Greenpeace v the Netherlands turn the tide?	1
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Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance By MatthewCanfield, Stanford University Press. 2022. 280 pp.	1
Civil liability for climate change? The proposed tort in Smith v Fonterra with reference to France and the Netherlands	1
The suitability of investor‐State dispute settlement and host State counterclaims for implementing climate change international responsibility	1
Export controls and the energy transition: Aligning security and sustainability	1
Rights of nature in the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Understanding the ecocentric approach to the right to a healthy environment	1
Attribution and accountability in the Arctic: Rethinking international responsibility for artificial intelligence‐based environmental decisions under public international law	1
Criminal justice cooperation to combat transnational wildlife crime: An examination of cooperation between China and Africa	1
Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives By IvanoAlogna, ChristineBakker, Jean‐PierreGauci (Eds.), Brill. 2021. pp. 542.	1
Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South: Challenges for Implementation, By Kirk W.Junker and Paolo DavideFarah,London and New York: Routledge, 2021, 348 pp.	1
Intercontinental shipping in the European Union emissions trading system: A ‘fifty–fifty’ alignment with the law of the sea and international climate law?	1
Mainstreaming displacement in development policies: An analysis of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu approaches	1
In search of a sustainable future: A comparative assessment of climate change regimes in Nigeria and Kenya	1
EU public values governing the twin transition	1
The ‘bitcoin judgements’ in China: Promoting climate awareness by judicial reasoning?	1
Beyond ‘Fit for 55’: The emergence of the ‘Do No Significant Harm’ principle in EU law and EU funding mechanisms	1
The Paris Agreement and the importance of the Warsaw Framework for REDD+ (WFR)	1
The centrality of law for EU sustainable finance markets: Outlining a research agenda	1
Behavioural instruments in environmental law and policy: Potential and challenges	0
The source‐to‐sea nexus between water and ocean law: An international and EU perspective	0
The role of African regional courts in shaping sustainable development: Balancing competing pillars and contributing to global jurisprudence	0
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Opening the doors: Legal consequences of breaching international climate obligations in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change	0
The judicial dimension of climate governance: The role of the International Court of Justice	0
Responsibility for Environmental Damage By JasonRudall, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. pp. 352. $165 (hbk). ISBN: 9781803920702	0
A comparative study of the judicial construction of scientific credibility in climate litigation	0
Casting the net wider? The transformative potential of integrating human rights into the implementation of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies	0
The Czech Republic v Poland (Mine de Turów): Politics and implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive	0
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What we talk about when we talk about compliance: The case of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its protocols	0
The legal components of benefit‐sharing in transboundary watercourses: An analysis of China's approach	0
Environmental considerations in the European Union's pharmaceuticals legislation: Key instruments and their challenges in addressing global manufacturing supply chains	0
Sustainability and the sunlight of disclosure: ESG disclosure in three Asian financial centres	0
The implications and challenges of the IMO 2020 regulation: Exploring options for compliance	0
Addressing conflict of laws and facilitating Digital Product Passports for critical raw materials value chains: From centralisation to mutual recognition	0
Financing for loss and damage under the UNFCCC: Have we come full circle?	0
An empty victory? Shell v. Milieudefensie et al 2024, the legal obligations of carbon majors, and the prospects for future climate litigation action	0
More‐than‐human by JamieLorimer and TimothyHodgetts, Routledge, 2024, xv + 245 pp	0
Harm to the global commons on trial: The role of the prevention principle in international climate adjudication	0
Regulatory and policy stability for renewable energy investment: An interdisciplinary analysis of the investment disputes against Spain	0
Addressing governance challenges of digitalisation and sustainability: The case of central bank digital currency	0
The precautionary approach and challenges posed by mega‐constellations	0
National discretion or broadening acceptable interpretation? A comparative overview of the transposition and implementation of the Water Framework Directive	0
The potential of international ‘State‐as‐polluter’ litigation	0
A two‐directional coherence framework for the environment‐trade nexus: A case study on ‘circular’ recycled content requirements and the technical barriers to trade agreement	0
The long and winding road towards the creation of climate clubs: Transatlantic negotiations, potential regulatory models and challenges ahead	0
Protecting the marine environment from the impacts of climate change: A regime interaction study	0
Daniel Billy et al v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition): Climate change inaction as a human rights violation	0
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, By DipeshChakrabarty, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2021, 296 pp	0
Loss and damage from the perspective of vulnerable countries	0
Nature‐based solutions in the energy transition: A legal perspective	0
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Civil society participation in EU preparation for UN climate negotiations—Questions of openness and transparency	0
The ITLOS advisory opinion on climate change: Revisiting the relationship between the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Paris Agreement	0
Can't see the carbon for the CO2? Regulating CCU value chains under and beyond climate law	0

A place for people's knowledge in climate evidence: Exploring civic evidence in climate litigation	0
Integrating communities' customary laws into marine small‐scale fisheries governance in Ghana: Reflections on the FAO Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small‐Scale Fisheries	0
Upscaling nature restoration in Italy: Barriers and facilitators	0
Sustainable development, international law, and a turn to African legal cosmologies By Godwin Eli KwadzoDzah, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 408 pp	0
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Carbon pricing for international shipping, equity, and WTO law	0
Embedding technology at the grassroots: Strategies for localising technology transfer under the UNFCCC technology mechanism	0
Regulating AI in the ‘twin transitions’: Significance and shortcomings of the AI Act in the digitalised electricity sector	0
David versus Goliath? Indigenous people, carbon majors and climate litigation in South Africa	0
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Deutsche Umwelthilfe eV: Implementing the Aarhus convention in EU law	0
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) sector: Lessons learnt from Indonesia and the European Union	0
Environmental liability and the interplay between EU law and international law. By EmanuelaOrlando, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 304. GBP 39.99 (pbk). ISBN: 9781032538747	0
The role of environmental impact assessments in the establishment and management of marine protected areas under the UNCLOS and the BBNJ Agreement	0
Smallholder farms in the sustainable food transition: A critical examination of the new Common Agricultural Policy	0
International human rights bodies and climate litigation: Don't look up?	0
Constitutional boundaries after Verein KlimaSeniorinnen : Lessons on domestic rights‐based climate change litigation from the Swedish Supreme Court's	0
A quasi‐normative conflict: Resolving the tension between investment treaties and climate action	0
Unjust enrichment in investor–State arbitration: A principled limit on compensation for future income from fossil fuels	0
The ocean, sustainable development and human rights	0
ClientEarth and Collectif Nourrir v Commission : The French Strategic Plan for the Common Agricultural Policy under scrutiny	0
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Towards the adoption of climate change acts in the Visegrad Group countries	0
A legal analysis of the interinstitutional duty to cooperate in international water law	0
Fossil fuel feuds and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change	0
Inter‐State climate technology transfer under the UNFCCC: A benefit‐sharing approach	0
Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law. By FelicityDeane, EvanHamman and AnnaHuggins, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2022, 256 pp.	0
Green public procurement of pharmaceuticals as a regulatory response to antimicrobial resistance and its compatibility with the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement	0
Addressing the international illegal wildlife trade through a human rights approach	0
Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway	0
Fighting in a warming world: The emergence of climatic considerations in the conduct of hostilities under international humanitarian law	0
A comparative study of China and the EU's experimental approaches to creating hydrogen markets	0
Regulating from upstream: Sustainability law in the Asia‐Pacific	0
Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland: Making climate change litigation history	0
Advisory opinions on climate change: Some preliminary questions	0
Biodiversity Litigation By GuillaumeFuthazar, SandrineMaljean‐Dubois and JonaRazzaque (Eds.) Oxford University Press. 2022. 448 pp.	0
Towards a legal definition of ecological restoration: Reviewing international, European and Member States' case law	0
The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective	0
Sustainability in regulating biotechnology: A new form of knowledge in regulatory co‐production?	0
The next chapter in strategic climate litigation research? A critical doctrinal analysis of grassroots legal mobilisation in Poland	0
The rise of international climate litigation	0
Waste pickers in extended producer responsibility policies: A comparative analysis of Brazil and the European Union	0
Future proofing EU law – Does the European Union have a legal obligation to protect future generations?	0
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Emerging technologies and environmental, energy and climate law	0
Could a trade agreement strengthen the enforcement of domestic environmental laws? Envisioning the impacts of the US–Peru environmental submissions mechanism	0
Society left holding the (plastic) bag: A transnational analysis of the impact of plastic litigation on environmental justice	0
Human Rights Approaches to Planetary Crises From Climate Change to Plastic Pollution by SamvelVarvastian, Oxon & New York: Routledge, 2025. 222 pp. €175.00 (Hardback), Hardcover. ISBN: 97810325656	0
A comparative analysis of public access to justice in environmental matters under the Escazú Agreement	0
Just transition in framework climate laws: Between meaningful governance and performative law	0
China's instrumentalist greenisation of the new‐generation IIAs	0
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Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, By KoheiSaito, Published by Cambridge University Press, 2023, 300 pp.	0
From disconnection to coherence: Reframing Indigenous knowledge in the Asia‐Pacific	0
Including Consumption in Emissions Trading: Economic and Legal Considerations By Manuel WHaussner, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021, x + 200 pp.	0
The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice By CristyClark and JohnPage, Edinburgh University Press. 2022. 248 pp.	0
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	0
Law in a hyperconnected world: Joining the dots for sustainable futures	0
The awkward relations between EU innovation policies and environmental law	0
Meaningful participatory climate governance: Lessons from EU multilevel climate and energy dialogues	0
Land rights now: Global voices on Indigenous peoples and land justice by WilliamNikolakis (Ed.), Cambridge University Press. 2025. pp. 362. ISBN: 978‐1‐009‐52157‐4	0
The Aarhus Convention: A framework for transforming environmental governance in Uzbekistan	0
International legal requirements for environmental and socio‐cultural assessments for large‐scale industrial fisheries	0
Trapping and re‐educating bold wolves in the European Union: Obligatory and illegal at the same time?	0
From credits to coherence: Applying the policy coherence approach to prevent problem‐shifting in the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism	0
A principled approach for BBNJ: An idea whose time has come	0
Bridging multinational corporations' investment‐climate gap: Prospects for the direct claims approach	0
Individual rights and the environmental public interest: A comparison of German and Chinese approaches to environmental litigation	0
The integration of the ecosystem approach in the BBNJ agreement—An initial assessment of limits and opportunities	0
Preventing the ‘wasting’ of waste: The expanding horizons of waste law	0
Climate change before the European and Inter‐American Courts of Human Rights: Comparing possible avenues before human rights bodies	0
‘(Bio)fuelling up’: The Palm Oil disputes and the WTO's first encounter with the EU Green Deal	0
Nature as a sentient being: Can rivers be legal persons?	0
The power of the Paris Agreement in international climate litigation	0
The Ecology of War and Peace: Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law By ElianaCusato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. pp. x + 312	0
Establishing binding climate‐change‐related investor obligation clauses in international investment agreements: Obstacles and pathways	0
The WTO dispute settlement system as a forum for climate litigation?	0
Shaping green regionalism: New trade law approaches to environmental sustainability	0
Perceived legal risks of extended producer responsibility	0
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Integrating climate change into legislative drafting: An analysis of regulatory impact assessment obligations and practices in the EU and Finland	0
Achieving agricultural greenhouse gas emission reductions in the EU post‐2030: What options do we have?	0
The legal recognition of animal sentience: Principles, approaches and applicationsJaneKotzmann, MBRodriguez Ferrere (Eds.), Hart. 2024. pp 329.	0
Litigating the Fit for 55 Package: Statutory and rights‐based challenges to national energy and climate plans as a means of implementing and/or enhancing the ambition of the EU's Fit for 55 Package	0
Waste by any other name? National end‐of‐waste rulings and waste shipments	0
Governing the circular–digital transition: Comparative legal‐institutional analysis of smart waste strategies in Spain and Portugal	0
The pathology of plenty: Natural resources in international law by LysKulamadayil, Hart Publishing. 2025. pp. 163. £90 (hbk). ISBN: 9781509969623	0
When environment meets bankruptcy: Global lessons for and from China	0
Is it still permissible under EU law to issue new permits for oil and gas extraction?	0
European Union case law on the birds and habitats directives By Nina ClaudiaMiron and LiamCashman, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International. 2024. pp. 384. €135 (hbk). ISBN: 9789403525570	0
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Shaping Europe's climate neutral future: The Fit for 55 framework	0