Description
The regulatory sustainability landscape which focuses on the private sector is in full swing, and. cCompanies across Europe are gearing up to implement the requirements that follow from the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and to report their taxonomy indicators. However, questions regarding what criteria should be fulfilled for activities or initiatives to be la-belled as “sustainable” arise in the public sector too. For example,At the same time, Nature- Based Solutions (NBS) for flood risk management are becoming more and more mainstream. Yet, despite their increasing prominence, they , however remains largely unexplored from a legal perspective. Under what circumstances should they be legally considered to be “sustainable”? Notably, For example, the links to related areas of environmental law, such as between water law and nature protection law, are crucial in implementing NBbS for flood risk manage-ment, however but these links are not readily available in the underlying regulatory framework. This is where the tools and assessments underpinning the Taxonomy Regulation could come into play. In particular, the Do No Significant Harm criteria, allow for a holistic 360° evaluation of an activity for each of the six environmental objectives of the EU, i.e. climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, protection of water, protection of & marine resources, circulari-ty and biodiversity. The aim ofIn this presentation, will therefore be to explore how and to what extent the taxonomy framework the link between water law and nature protection law, with a case study for NbS for flood risk management, will be explored through the lense of sustainability law (in particular, the CSRD and Taxonomy Regulation). Sustainability law could be useful beyond application in the private sector, as a way to close the gap between different sectors in terms of policy making and research. The goal of this research is to explore whether the criteria for NbS for flood risk management under the EU Taxonomy and CSRD could be further refined.NBS for flood risk management will thereby be used as a case study for demonstration.| Period | 28 Nov 2024 |
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| Event title | IUS Commune |
| Event type | Seminar |