OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Review of European Comparative & International 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework: Incremental change toward radical transformation?	77
Pharmaceutical pollution: A weakly regulated global environmental risk	32
Business and human rights implications of climate change litigation: Milieudefensie et al. v Royal Dutch Shell	24
Is carbon dioxide removal ‘mitigation of climate change’?	24
The continued effort sharing approach in EU climate law: Binding targets, challenging enforcement?	16
Planetary boundaries at the intersection of Earth system law, science and governance: A state‐of‐the‐art review	16
Achieving agricultural greenhouse gas emission reductions in the EU post‐2030: What options do we have?	13
Palm oil, the RED II and WTO law: EU sustainable biofuel policy tangled up in green?	11
The State of the Netherlands v Urgenda Foundation: Distilling best practice and lessons learnt for future rights‐based climate litigation	11
The right to a healthy environment: Reconceptualizing human rights in the face of climate change	11
Health impact assessment legislation in developing countries: A path to sustainable development?	11
Adaptability versus certainty in a carbon emissions reduction regime: An assessment of the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework	10
REDD+ and forest protection on indigenous lands in the Amazon	9
Public participation at the International Seabed Authority: An international human rights law analysis	7
To ban or not to ban carbon‐intensive materials: A legal and administrative assessment of product carbon requirements	6
Zero deforestation in the Amazon: The Soy Moratorium and global forest governance	6
A water property right inventory of 60 countries	6
A human rights approach to energy: Realizing the rights of billions within ecological limits	6
Protecting forests or saving trees? The EU's regulatory approach to global deforestation	5
Coming to terms with public participation in decision making: Balancing clarity and impact in the Aarhus Convention	5
The power of the Paris Agreement in international climate litigation	5
China and the global water conventions in light of recent developments: Time to take a second look?	5
Water property rights in investor‐state contracts on extractive activities, affects water governance: An empirical assessment of 80 contracts in Africa and Asia	5
Due diligence in global value chains: Conceptualizing ‘adverse environmental impact’	4
Reframing the transboundary water discourse: Contextualized international law in practice	4

Adaptation regulatory regimes to address climate change challenges in transboundary water basins: Can multilateral regionalism help?	4
Public participation, indigenous peoples’ land rights and major infrastructure projects in the Amazon: The case for a human rights assessment framework	4
COVID‐19 and Amazonia: Rights‐based approaches for the pandemic response	4
Human rights of minors and future generations: Global trends and EU environmental law particularities	4
A democratic nuclear energy transition? Public participation in nuclear activities	4
Megafauna restoration as a legal obligation: International biodiversity law and the rehabilitation of large mammals in Europe	4
Environmental norm diffusion and domestic legal innovation: The case of specialized environmental courts and tribunals	4
Bringing animal welfare under the umbrella of sustainable development: A legal analysis	3
International legal requirements for environmental and socio‐cultural assessments for large‐scale industrial fisheries	3
Are we ready for the ship transport of CO₂ for CCS? Crude solutions from international and European law	3
Towards a legal definition of ecological restoration: Reviewing international, European and Member States' case law	3
Enforcing transboundary water obligations through investment treaty arbitration: China, Laos and the Mekong River	3
Beyond Urgenda: The role of the ECHR and judgments of the ECtHR in Dutch environmental and climate litigation	3
Climate litigation to protect the Brazilian Amazon: Establishing a constitutional right to a stable climate	3
Payments for ecosystem services in transboundary water allocation cases: An approach for China and its neighbours	3
Intercontinental shipping in the European Union emissions trading system: A ‘fifty–fifty’ alignment with the law of the sea and international climate law?	3
Climate neutrality in the EU and China: An analysis of the stringency of targets and the adaptiveness of the relevant legal frameworks	3
Confronting inequality beyond sustainable development: The case for eco‐human rights and differentiation	3
The role of an advisory opinion of ITLOS in addressing climate change: Some preliminary considerations on jurisdiction and admissibility	3
The mirage of universalism in international nuclear liability law: A critical assessment 10 years after Fukushima	3
Editorial: Governing the EU's climate and energy transition through the 2030 Framework	3
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	3
Could a trade agreement strengthen the enforcement of domestic environmental laws? Envisioning the impacts of the US–Peru environmental submissions mechanism	2
Policy coherence for the protection of water resources against agricultural pollution in the EU and Norway	2
The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective	2
Beyond the North–South divide: Litigation's role in resolving climate change loss and damage claims	2
Justifying a presumed standing for environmental NGOs: A legal assessment of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention	2
Governance and metagovernance systems for the Amazon	2
The role of proportionality in the law of transboundary waters	2
The rise of international climate litigation	2
Advisory opinions on climate change: Some preliminary questions	2
Inter‐State climate technology transfer under the UNFCCC: A benefit‐sharing approach	2
The public–private governance regime on sustainable ship recycling: An in‐depth analysis	2
International human rights bodies and climate litigation: Don't look up?	2
Atmospheric CO₂ as a resource for renewable energy production: A European energy law appraisal of direct air capture fuels	2
A principled approach for BBNJ: An idea whose time has come	2
State responsibility in international law for transboundary water‐related harm: The emergence of a new ecosystems‐based paradigm?	2
Putting the constructive ambiguity of climate change loss and damage into practice: The early work of the UNFCCC WIM ExCom	2
Individual rights and the environmental public interest: A comparison of German and Chinese approaches to environmental litigation	2