Papers and Materials
Team’s Publications:
- E. CISCATO, Il carattere trasformativo del Regolamento europeo sul Ripristino della Natura nelle politiche ambientali, in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, n. 4/2024, pp. 1105-1136. Abstract: This contribution analyzes the transformative potential of the EU Nature Restoration Law within environmental policy. It explores how the regulation reshapes legal approaches by integrating ecosystem functionality, scientific uncertainty, and long-term ecological timelines.
- C. RAGNI, Cambiamento climatico e diritti umani alla luce del caso KlimaSeniorinnen, in Osservatorio Costituzionale, n. 6/2024 (ISSN: 2283-7515). Abstract: The contribution examines the judgment issued on 9 April 2024 in the KlimaSeniorinnen case and its impact on climate change litigation.
- S. VALAGUZZA, Gli orizzonti del diritto dell’ambiente a partire dal contenzioso climatico [Nota a sentenza] Trib. Roma, 26/2/2024, n. 3552, in Il diritto processuale amministrativo, n. 4/2024, pp. 914 ss. Abstract: The contribution reflects on the numerous complexities accompanying climate policies, even when their ineffectiveness becomes the subject of judicial actions brought against the State. The breadth of interests underlying the logical and legal framework of environmental law leads to a valorisation of the concepts inherent to administrative law and to the administrative judge, making it particularly challenging to establish subjective, individual, and personal rights, even within the context of the so-called “reserve of scientific knowledge”.
- F. FORGIONE, Clima e salute: costrutti concettuali e ruolo dell’IPCC, in Epidemiologia e Prevenzione, n. 6/2024, pp. 402-405. Abstract: The paper addresses the relationship between climate change and health, focusing on conceptual constructs and the role of the IPCC.
- E. DALLAGIACOMA, Nature Restoration Law e diritto alla salute, in Epidemiologia e Prevenzione, n. 4-5/2024, pp. 292-294. Abstract: With the aim of tackling climate change and the steady decline in biodiversity, in 2022 the European Commission proposed legally binding legislation for the Member States aimed at the rehabilitation of natural environments concerning not only protected areas, but all ecosystems, including agricultural land, forests and urban areas. In this article, the author analyses the idea of the environment/health relationship (relationship between ‘human’ and ‘non-human’) that guided the European Commission in producing this regulation.
- G. RAGONE, Giudicare l’incertezza: il caso della Corte di Giustizia dell’Unione Europea, in Biolaw Journal, n. 2/2024, pp. 41-57 (ISSN 2284-4503). Abstract: The contribution aims to analyze the jurisprudence of the CJUE in the scientific-technical field. The thesis put forward is that the CJEU usually does not seek elements or data on its own to assess the merits of the scientific opinion challenged, preferring to operate an external review of the legitimacy of the contested act that is based on that opinion, aimed at excluding that there has been excess of power on the part of those who adopted it. And yet, it is also shown how in the jurisprudence of Luxembourg there is nevertheless a “scientific” protagonism when it is necessary to offer interpretation to dubious concepts.
- S. VALAGUZZA (ed.), Esplorazioni di diritto dell’ambiente, Editoriale Scientifica, 2024 (ISBN 978-12-5976-873-5). Abstract: What is the current direction of environmental law? What new harmony will reunite us with the Planet? How will science help us? This volume offers some answers to these and other questions, enclosing real “explorations,” that is, thematic inquiries into certain aspects inherent in environmental law that are of particular interest because of their topicality.
- D. LANZONI, R. REBUCCI, G. FORMICI, F. CHELI, G. RAGONE, A. BALDI, L. VIOLINI, T.S. SUNDARAM, C. GIROMINI, Cultured meat in the European Union: Legislative context and food safety issues, in Current Research in Food Science, n. 8/2024, pp. 1-16 (ISSN 2665-9271) Abstract: The position paper addresses some of the main legal and scientific issues related to cultured meat: an innovative method of food production that could reduce the impact on the environment, biodiversity and climate change.
- L. VIOLINI, Vincoli costituzionali al bilancio e spese emergenziali. Il BVerfG impone la linea del rigore, in Quaderni Costituzionali, n. 1/2024, (ISBN 978-88-15-42349-8). Abstract: The article comments on a decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court in which it states that the energy and climate crisis is certainly present but is not so serious and exceptional as to justify intervention under Section 109(3) GG.
Team’s Materials:
- Position Paper COP_SCIPO: “WHY AND HOW SHOULD WE FIND METHODS, REASONS AND PROCEDURES FOR SCIENCE BASED POLICY MAKING IN COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE?” – Milan Unit, June 2025
- Report for COP_SCIPO on Scientific Advisory Bodies and Climate Governance in Europe – Dott. Fabio Forgione, May 2025
- Report for COP_SCIPO on Science policy models – Prof. Mariachiara Tallacchini, April 2025
- Scienza e Potere. Alla ricerca della architetture normative – Prof. Mariachiara Tallacchini, 17th April 2024
Relevant judgments and documents:
- State of the Climate 2024 Update for COP29, 11 November 2024
- EEA Report 05/2024, Governance in complexity, 24 June 2024
- Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, 9 April 2024, European Court of Human Rights