Please feel free forward to your colleagues and share the news of our journal | | Putting the Spotlight on Sustainability | NEW ISSUE We are delighted to announce that Volume 50, Issue 3 of Environmental Policy and Law (EPL). You can access all the articles from the list below. This issue opens with EPL's Managing Editor Tomme Young's editorial, in which she includes a special note: “We at EPL would like to warmly congratulate Elizabeth Maruma Mrema on her recent appointment as Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. We know her as an excellent lawyer, diplomat and advisor, with a long list of real-world credentials and accomplishments to accompany her academic credentials. She is also a staunch defender of the environment and a very nice person. We are confident that her elevation to this position, after temporarily holding it for some months, was an excellent decision.” Access the editorial here and the full issue via the links below. View details of a recent website article by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema below! | NEW WEBSITE SECTION A new section of the EPL website is now available that focuses on sustainability. You can discover information about relevant publications, events, and announcements leading up to the 50th anniversary of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment. Details of the pathway to events in 2022 will be added as more information becomes available. We will also be highlighting materials and information relating to the global environmental agenda in the context of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This new section is also in support of the IOS Press commitment as a member of the SDG Publishers Compact. | INTRODUCTION
Editorial: Changes (Editorial) – Openly Available
Young, Tomme R. GLOBAL LAW AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
Waste-to-Energy Projects (Part II): Comparing Approaches (Research Article)
Bhati, Harsh Vardhan Accountability at the Green Climate Fund: Taking a Look at the Independent Redress Mechanism (Research Article)
Prasad, Siddhanth | Kaushik, Malvika Recognising Biodiversity Conservation as a “Common Concern of Mankind”: A Legal Appraisal (Research Article)
Zaman, Sharaban Tahura Are Economic Tools Preferable to Direct Regulatory Measures in Achieving Environmental Goals? (Research Article)
Lavee, Doron In Response to COVID-19: Promoting Sustainability and Resilience Regarding Major Health Crises (Meeting Report) – Openly Available
Laina, Efstathia UN Marine Negotiations: The Third Intergovernmental Conference and Future Prospects for the Ocean Negotiations (Meeting Report)
Tsioumanis, Asterios CMS COP-13: International Concern over Biodiversity Decline, Urgent Need for Protection across the Planet (Meeting Report)
Laina, Efstathia Progress on Regulations for Deep-Sea Mining Activities (Meeting Report)
Young, Tomme R. REGIONAL LAW AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
The Eighth Meeting of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (Meeting Report)
Tsioumanis, Asterios SICA Needs a Single-Use Plastics Regional Strategy in Central America (Research Article)
Cocker, Jonathan | Roca, Gabriela | Guevara, Raul NATIONAL LAW AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS
China’s Claim on Traditional Fishing Grounds Located in the South China Sea (Research Article)
Putri, Intan Novia | Sunyowati, Dina | Narwati, Enny Reopening the Trade after SARS: China’s Wildlife Industry and the Fateful Policy Reversal (Research Article) – Openly Available
Li, Peter Economic Incentive Mechanisms for the Protection and Use of Biological Diversity in the Russian Federation (Research Article)
Ivanova, Svetlana V. Legal Aspects of the Opening of Ukraine’s Land Markets (Research Article)
Kuznietsova, Nataliia S. | Onishchenko, Natalia M. | Kot, Oleksii O. | EPL publishes that facilitates an understanding of environmental policy and law issues not only by drawing upon and contributing to the environmental social sciences, but also linking the health, natural, and computer sciences. More details here. Why submit to our EPL journal? The many benefits for contributing authors include:
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• Rapid online publication (pre-press) | Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, writes that urgent action is required for global biodiversity In 2011, a strategic 10-year plan was set out by the Convention on Biological Diversity, which has fostered global action for the conservation of biodiversity but there is a long way to go. For the next decade, milestones need to be set that build on what has already been achieved. In order to address the global biodiversity agenda, we need to be open to the interconnectedness of different challenges and ensure engagement of all stakeholders and sectors, and, as such, a post-2020 framework has been drafted. The pathway to finalizing this framework is highlighted in this new article. | Our aim is for the journal's website to become a vital portal for the EPL community. Keep checking the site to discover all the news items that we are posting. Selected Blog Posts | Indigenous Rights and Resource Extraction
Following the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP), there were many studies on indigenous rights in the context of natural resources extraction. UNDRIP was widely endorsed though did not solve a number of challenges related to resource extraction, writes Daria Shapovalova. View | Plastic Waste in the Oceans: Current and Future International Legal Instruments
While banning single-use plastic bags might help address global plastics pollution, more needs to be done in relation to plastic waste in our oceans. This post by Elizabeth A. Kirk highlights current international law, offers recommendations, and touches on the idea of a plastic treaty. View | Improving Environmental Policy-Making to Enable Achievement of SDGs
Our most-viewed article in EPL in 2020 highlights the continuing quest for effective sustainable development laws, policies, and other measures, in the context of the international objective of achieving the SDGs by 2030. An extract of the article by by Almannaei et al. is available on the website. View | Towards Sustainability: Making Systems Transformations to Realize Agenda 2030
Universal sustainability transformations are an urgent requirement. This post by Eeva Furman highlights the importance of key players taking an active role and ownership in the transformation of sustainability pathways and how vital it is that this is carried out in an integrated manner. View | If you know of any colleagues or fellow researchers who are not yet signed up to receive the newsletter, we invite you to share this mailing with them. Click on the sign-up button at the bottom of this email or access here. Did you know EPL also has a social media presence? Why not take the time today to follow us on Twitter? Be part of the discussion! | You are receiving this mailing as you are signed up to receive news from EPL.
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