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.	38
Reimagining prosperity: Toward a new imaginary of law and political economy in the EU by MarijaBartl, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 254 pp	28
The international climate change regime and general principles of law	24
When corporate laws meet climate loss: The practical challenges of shareholder‐led climate litigation	24
Area‐based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement: Ambition or illusion?	19
Politics and International Law: Making, Breaking, and Upholding Global Rules By LeslieJohns, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 560.	14
Favourable conservation status: EU Court clarifies crucial yardstick for wildlife preservation and restoration in wave of wolf cases	14
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Justifying a presumed standing for environmental NGOs: A legal assessment of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention	12
Tempering great expectations: The legitimacy constraints and the conflict function of international courts in international climate litigation	12
Redesigning mineral regimes to strengthen the environmental rule of law: A case study on lithium in brines	11
Navigating electricity network congestion: An examination of a principle‐based regulatory theory and strategy	11
Towards minilateral climate governance? Analysing climate club design options through the lens of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities	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
Nature and the law: In defence of a pluriversal, more‐than‐human approach	9
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	9
Reassessing environmental protection in international investment agreements: The case of Vietnam	8
Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks	8
Liminal phases and electronic waste: Interrogating temporality in international law	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	8
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Deposit return schemes of EU Member States and the EU's internal market	7

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Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom	7
Extraterritoriality and Climate Change Jurisdiction: Exploring EU Climate Protection under International Law, By Natalie LDobson, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 267 pp.	7
Non‐refoulement and climate change‐induced displacement: Regional and international cross‐fertilization?	7
Reflexive EU environmental law: Exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single‐use Plastics Directive	7
The Regulation of Product Standards in World Trade Law, By MingDuOxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 256 pp.	7
Data governance for the ecological transition: An infrastructure perspective	7
Navigating the hydrogen landscape: An analysis of hydrogen support mechanisms in the US and the EU	7
Climate‐related migration practices from the Cancun Adaptation Framework to the Australia‐Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty: Implications for the international legal regime	7
The International Court of Justice on the mitigation obligations in the Paris Agreement	7
Accelerating the EU's climate transformation: The European Green Deal's Fit for 55 Package unpacked	7
Biofuel restrictions and indirect land‐use change: What does the WTO say?	6
Life cycle thinking in plastics design	6
Pollution is colonialism by MaxLiboiron, Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2021. pp. 216. $25.95 (paperback). $99.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐1413‐3 (paperback); 978‐1‐4780‐1322‐8 (hardco	6
Domestic entities and access and benefit‐sharing: A legal critique of Divya Pharmacy v Union of India	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
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Forest conservation as a common concern: EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products in the light of public international law	5
Integrating environmental sustainability into EU data law and governance: The case of health data	5
Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and Their Bodies By IyanOffor, Routledge. 2023. 320 pp.	5
The direct application and potential indirect contribution of space law for solar radiation modification governance	5
Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis	5
Piecing together the jigsaw: Forests in the EU's Fit for 55 Package	4
The implications of seabed mining in the Area for the human right to health	4
The COP27 decision and future directions for loss and damage finance: Addressing vulnerability and non‐economic loss and damage	4
Using socio‐economic analysis and the safe‐and‐sustainable‐by‐design concept to balance costs and benefits in the circular economy	4
A legal study of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's new Environmental and Social Framework	4
Strengthening the complaint mechanisms of multilateral climate funds and carbon markets: A critical step towards a human rights‐based green transition	4
Strengthening international climate law through regional trade agreements: Towards concretisation, adjudication and enforcement?	4
Correction to “Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway”	4
The right to climate protection and the essentially comparable protection of fundamental rights: Applying Solange in European climate change litigation?	4
The Energy Charter Treaty: Letting the sun set on sunset clauses	4
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Prospects for invoking the law of self‐determination in international climate litigation	3
A paper tiger in the fog of governance: Norway's riddle in biodiversity matters	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
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
Climate change adaptation in water law: International, EU and Finnish perspectives	3
The nature of nature: Why the promotion of plural values of nature could pose transition risks and influence nature‐related financial disclosure	3
Beyond the North–South divide: Litigation's role in resolving climate change loss and damage claims	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
Who pays for PFAS contamination? A comparative analysis of environmental liability in the US and Sweden	2
The private non‐state actor financing mechanism for restoration under the Convention on Biological Diversity: The case of China	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
The European Court of Human Right's landmark judgment in the case of Cannavacciuolo and Others v Italy	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
From ‘well below 2°C’ to 1.5°C: The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change	2

Human rights and climate wrongs: Mapping the landscape of rights‐based climate litigation	2
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What can climate change litigation learn from socio‐economic rights litigation?	2
European approaches to wastewater reuse regulation: A comparison between Spain, Malta and the Netherlands	2
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Attribution and accountability in the Arctic: Rethinking international responsibility for artificial intelligence‐based environmental decisions under public international law	2
The public–private governance regime on sustainable ship recycling: An in‐depth analysis	2
Navigating the legal uncertainty around the governance of an integrated energy system using the values of the energy transition and energy justice	2
Climate change, cattle, and the international legal order By RebeccaWilliams, London: Hart. 2024. pp. 227.£76.50 (hbk). ISBN: 9781509968596	2
Climate advisory committees in European climate governance: Expertise, representation and co‐production	2
Scrutinizing net zero: The legal problems of counting greenhouse gas emissions, removals and offsets together	2
Calibrating states' emissions reduction due diligence obligations with reference to the right to life	2
The role of an advisory opinion of ITLOS in addressing climate change: Some preliminary considerations on jurisdiction and admissibility	2
The role of energy communities for thermal networks: An EU legal perspective	2
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
Could a trade agreement strengthen the enforcement of domestic environmental laws? Envisioning the impacts of the US–Peru environmental submissions mechanism	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
In search of a sustainable future: A comparative assessment of climate change regimes in Nigeria and Kenya	1
Support for young farmers in the European Union: How much discretion for Member States?	1
A duty to assess an oil project's downstream greenhouse gas emissions: The UK Supreme Court in Finch	1
Export controls and the energy transition: Aligning security and sustainability	1
Public Interest Litigation in International Law By JustineBendel and YusraSuedi (Eds.), Routledge. 2023. 354 pp.	1
Criminal justice cooperation to combat transnational wildlife crime: An examination of cooperation between China and Africa	1
Not easy to ‘green’ old ways: National courts and rights‐based smog cases in Poland	1
The Paris Agreement and the importance of the Warsaw Framework for REDD+ (WFR)	1
The Dutch nitrogen crisis: Will Greenpeace v the Netherlands turn the tide?	1
Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal Rules, By NicolasDe Sadeleer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 2020, 592 pp	1
Flaring reduction solutions: How Norway, the US and Russia regulate flaring to mitigate black carbon emissions in the Arctic	1
Civil liability for climate change? The proposed tort in Smith v Fonterra with reference to France and the Netherlands	1
Mainstreaming displacement in development policies: An analysis of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu approaches	1
The centrality of law for EU sustainable finance markets: Outlining a research agenda	1
EU public values governing the twin transition	1
Global developments in the regulation of cultivated meat: A comparative study of the EU, Singapore, US and Australia and New Zealand	1
Beyond ‘Fit for 55’: The emergence of the ‘Do No Significant Harm’ principle in EU law and EU funding mechanisms	1
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Intercontinental shipping in the European Union emissions trading system: A ‘fifty–fifty’ alignment with the law of the sea and international climate law?	1
Integrating communities' customary laws into marine small‐scale fisheries governance in Ghana: Reflections on the FAO Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small‐Scale Fisheries	1
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The result‐oriented due diligence obligation in the ITLOS Climate Change Advisory Opinion: Developments and implications	1
Liability of shipowners and classification societies for environmental damage and unsafe working conditions at recycling yards	1
The ‘bitcoin judgements’ in China: Promoting climate awareness by judicial reasoning?	1
The suitability of investor‐State dispute settlement and host State counterclaims for implementing climate change international responsibility	1
Rights of nature in the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Understanding the ecocentric approach to the right to a healthy environment	1
Situating the ICJ's advisory opinion in the wider ecosystem of international climate litigation	1
Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives By IvanoAlogna, ChristineBakker, Jean‐PierreGauci (Eds.), Brill. 2021. pp. 542.	1
Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance By MatthewCanfield, Stanford University Press. 2022. 280 pp.	1
The WTO dispute settlement system as a forum for climate litigation?	0
When environment meets bankruptcy: Global lessons for and from China	0
The Aarhus Convention: A framework for transforming environmental governance in Uzbekistan	0
Achieving agricultural greenhouse gas emission reductions in the EU post‐2030: What options do we have?	0
The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice By CristyClark and JohnPage, Edinburgh University Press. 2022. 248 pp.	0
Regulating AI in the ‘twin transitions’: Significance and shortcomings of the AI Act in the digitalised electricity sector	0
Carbon pricing for international shipping, equity, and WTO law	0
Financing for loss and damage under the UNFCCC: Have we come full circle?	0
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Trapping and re‐educating bold wolves in the European Union: Obligatory and illegal at the same time?	0
Is it still permissible under EU law to issue new permits for oil and gas extraction?	0
A quasi‐normative conflict: Resolving the tension between investment treaties and climate action	0
ClientEarth and Collectif Nourrir v Commission : The French Strategic Plan for the Common Agricultural Policy under scrutiny	0
The pathology of plenty: Natural resources in international law by LysKulamadayil, Hart Publishing. 2025. pp. 163. £90 (hbk). ISBN: 9781509969623	0
More‐than‐human by JamieLorimer and TimothyHodgetts, Routledge, 2024, xv + 245 pp	0
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Harm to the global commons on trial: The role of the prevention principle in international climate adjudication	0
Addressing governance challenges of digitalisation and sustainability: The case of central bank digital currency	0
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) sector: Lessons learnt from Indonesia and the European Union	0
Can't see the carbon for the CO2? Regulating CCU value chains under and beyond climate law	0
Waste pickers in extended producer responsibility policies: A comparative analysis of Brazil and the European Union	0
Shaping green regionalism: New trade law approaches to environmental sustainability	0
Bridging multinational corporations' investment‐climate gap: Prospects for the direct claims approach	0
Establishing binding climate‐change‐related investor obligation clauses in international investment agreements: Obstacles and pathways	0
The legal components of benefit‐sharing in transboundary watercourses: An analysis of China's approach	0
Regulatory and policy stability for renewable energy investment: An interdisciplinary analysis of the investment disputes against Spain	0
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, By DipeshChakrabarty, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2021, 296 pp	0
A legal analysis of the interinstitutional duty to cooperate in international water law	0
Embedding technology at the grassroots: Strategies for localising technology transfer under the UNFCCC technology mechanism	0
Fighting in a warming world: The emergence of climatic considerations in the conduct of hostilities under international humanitarian law	0
Just transition in framework climate laws: Between meaningful governance and performative law	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
Society left holding the (plastic) bag: A transnational analysis of the impact of plastic litigation on environmental justice	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

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Regulating from upstream: Sustainability law in the Asia‐Pacific	0
What we talk about when we talk about compliance: The case of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its protocols	0
Daniel Billy et al v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition): Climate change inaction as a human rights violation	0
The next chapter in strategic climate litigation research? A critical doctrinal analysis of grassroots legal mobilisation in Poland	0
Sustainability and the sunlight of disclosure: ESG disclosure in three Asian financial centres	0
Climate change before the European and Inter‐American Courts of Human Rights: Comparing possible avenues before human rights bodies	0
Nature‐based solutions in the energy transition: A legal perspective	0
Civil society participation in EU preparation for UN climate negotiations—Questions of openness and transparency	0
The Czech Republic v Poland (Mine de Turów): Politics and implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive	0
Loss and damage from the perspective of vulnerable countries	0
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The judicial dimension of climate governance: The role of the International Court of Justice	0
Waste by any other name? National end‐of‐waste rulings and waste shipments	0
Meaningful participatory climate governance: Lessons from EU multilevel climate and energy dialogues	0
Behavioural instruments in environmental law and policy: Potential and challenges	0
The role of African regional courts in shaping sustainable development: Balancing competing pillars and contributing to global jurisprudence	0
Fossil fuel feuds and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change	0
National discretion or broadening acceptable interpretation? A comparative overview of the transposition and implementation of the Water Framework Directive	0
Individual rights and the environmental public interest: A comparison of German and Chinese approaches to environmental litigation	0
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, By KoheiSaito, Published by Cambridge University Press, 2023, 300 pp.	0
Protecting the marine environment from the impacts of climate change: A regime interaction study	0
Environmental considerations in the European Union's pharmaceuticals legislation: Key instruments and their challenges in addressing global manufacturing supply chains	0
Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law. By FelicityDeane, EvanHamman and AnnaHuggins, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2022, 256 pp.	0
Including Consumption in Emissions Trading: Economic and Legal Considerations By Manuel WHaussner, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021, x + 200 pp.	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
Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway	0
Casting the net wider? The transformative potential of integrating human rights into the implementation of the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies	0
The role of environmental impact assessments in the establishment and management of marine protected areas under the UNCLOS and the BBNJ Agreement	0
Upscaling nature restoration in Italy: Barriers and facilitators	0
The rise of the ecocentric right to a healthy environment before human rights courts in Africa and Latin America	0
Preventing the ‘wasting’ of waste: The expanding horizons of waste law	0
The long and winding road towards the creation of climate clubs: Transatlantic negotiations, potential regulatory models and challenges ahead	0
The ocean, sustainable development and human rights	0
Inter‐State climate technology transfer under the UNFCCC: A benefit‐sharing approach	0
Sustainability in regulating biotechnology: A new form of knowledge in regulatory co‐production?	0
From credits to coherence: Applying the policy coherence approach to prevent problem‐shifting in the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism	0
Nature as a sentient being: Can rivers be legal persons?	0
Addressing conflict of laws and facilitating Digital Product Passports for critical raw materials value chains: From centralisation to mutual recognition	0
Emerging technologies and environmental, energy and climate law	0
The potential of international ‘State‐as‐polluter’ litigation	0
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Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland: Making climate change litigation history	0
From disconnection to coherence: Reframing Indigenous knowledge in the Asia‐Pacific	0
The legal recognition of animal sentience: Principles, approaches and applicationsJaneKotzmann, MBRodriguez Ferrere (Eds.), Hart. 2024. pp 329.	0
Deutsche Umwelthilfe eV: Implementing the Aarhus convention in EU law	0
Governing the circular–digital transition: Comparative legal‐institutional analysis of smart waste strategies in Spain and Portugal	0
Green public procurement of pharmaceuticals as a regulatory response to antimicrobial resistance and its compatibility with the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement	0
Biodiversity Litigation By GuillaumeFuthazar, SandrineMaljean‐Dubois and JonaRazzaque (Eds.) Oxford University Press. 2022. 448 pp.	0
A comparative study of China and the EU's experimental approaches to creating hydrogen markets	0
The rise of international climate litigation	0
Future proofing EU law – Does the European Union have a legal obligation to protect future generations?	0
Constitutional boundaries after Verein KlimaSeniorinnen : Lessons on domestic rights‐based climate change litigation from the Swedish Supreme Court's	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
Sustainable development, international law, and a turn to African legal cosmologies By Godwin Eli KwadzoDzah, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 408 pp	0
China's instrumentalist greenisation of the new‐generation IIAs	0
A principled approach for BBNJ: An idea whose time has come	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
Unjust enrichment in investor–State arbitration: A principled limit on compensation for future income from fossil fuels	0
A comparative analysis of public access to justice in environmental matters under the Escazú Agreement	0
The awkward relations between EU innovation policies and environmental law	0
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A place for people's knowledge in climate evidence: Exploring civic evidence in climate litigation	0
The implications and challenges of the IMO 2020 regulation: Exploring options for compliance	0
International legal requirements for environmental and socio‐cultural assessments for large‐scale industrial fisheries	0
The integration of the ecosystem approach in the BBNJ agreement—An initial assessment of limits and opportunities	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
Responsibility for Environmental Damage By JasonRudall, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. pp. 352. $165 (hbk). ISBN: 9781803920702	0
David versus Goliath? Indigenous people, carbon majors and climate litigation in South Africa	0
Towards the adoption of climate change acts in the Visegrad Group countries	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
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Perceived legal risks of extended producer responsibility	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
Addressing the international illegal wildlife trade through a human rights approach	0
Advisory opinions on climate change: Some preliminary questions	0
The precautionary approach and challenges posed by mega‐constellations	0
The power of the Paris Agreement in international climate litigation	0
A comparative study of the judicial construction of scientific credibility in climate litigation	0
‘(Bio)fuelling up’: The Palm Oil disputes and the WTO's first encounter with the EU Green Deal	0
Shaping Europe's climate neutral future: The Fit for 55 framework	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
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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Opening the doors: Legal consequences of breaching international climate obligations in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change	0
The source‐to‐sea nexus between water and ocean law: An international and EU perspective	0
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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
The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective	0
Integrating climate change into legislative drafting: An analysis of regulatory impact assessment obligations and practices in the EU and Finland	0
Law in a hyperconnected world: Joining the dots for sustainable futures	0
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