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Second edition of our newsletter released
8 July 2020
The summer edition of our newsletter is available here, bringing news in the area of climate change law and policy in the Czech Republic; in the English version of the newsletter you can read for instance on phasing out coal in Czechia, on planning a new nuclear reactor (as the Czech government insists on taking nuclear energy as a low-emission source of energy), on proposing a cut-back in state support for solar installations or on reservations expressed by Czech officials about the EU Recovery Fund. If you wish to receive our future newsletters in your mailbox, you can subscribe here.
You can join us at Twitter and Facebook!
15 June 2020
You can now follow our Centre at Twitter (in English) and Facebook (mostly in Czech). On both social media you will find the climate law news and current information on the activities of our Centre.
The first newsletter just released!
5 May 2020
We have just released the first newsletter of our Centre. We would like to bring news in the area of climate change law and sustainability; our English version of the newsletter is specifically focused on news from the Czech Republic that otherwise might miss you. You can read the newsletter here.
CLASS team working from home
31 March 2020
The Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences has temporarily closed its physical offices in Prague in response to COVID-19. The team at the Centre for Climate Law and Sustainability Studies are all working remotely, from home. We are learning new ways of continuing our research and looking for innovative and creative opportunities to communicate our findings, including via digital gatherings and virtual meeting technologies. The COVID-19 topic has taken over the public space and seems to have temporarily eclipsed the climate change debate. However, we are progressing with our work, hoping that our communities will overcome the crisis together and that afterwards we will be able again to present our findings and publications at personal meetings and conferences that are currently impossible.
The Centre for Climate Law and Sustainability Studies (CLASS) launched research
20 January 2020
The new research unit, the first in the Czech Republic with a specialisation in climate law, was set up at the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences. A team of law researchers and a climatologist will study the contemporary challenges and problems that climate change poses to law at all levels. The members of the Centre will steer the new discipline into Czech law scholarship and cultivate and present it systematically through conferences, workshops, expert lectures and publications, as well as by presenting their findings on the Centre’s website. They will develop interdisciplinary collaboration and establish contacts and cooperation with other climate law research teams in Europe. The creation of the new research unit has been realised thanks to the kind support of the Czech Academy of Sciences through a ‘Lumina quaeruntur’ academic award that was granted to our researcher Hana Müllerová to run her climate law project over the next five years. Her new team will examine the environmental law aspects of the consequences of climate change, as well as related issues such as legal links between climate change and protection of human rights, the regulation of energy, transport, emission trading systems and international trade and investment. The focus of the Centre will cover International, European and Czech law. At the level of national law, the team plans to stimulate better implementation of our climate commitments and to provide expert recommendations and opinions to Czech legislative and other public bodies.
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