Future-Proofing Law in a Time of Environmental Emergency

Edited by Harro van Asselt, Hatton Professor of Climate Law, Department of Land Economy and Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, UK, and Professor of Climate Law and Policy, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, Seita Vesa, Professor of Environmental Law, Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL), University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu and Research Professor, Climate Solutions Unit (SYKE), Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland and Kaisa Huhta, Associate Professor of European Law, Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL), University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland and Part-Time Professor, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, Italy.

• Contents1 Towards a future-proof environmental law? 1Harro van Asselt, Seita Vesa and Kaisa HuhtaPART I THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS2 Law’s importance does not come from it being wrapped inplastic: on future-proofing environmental law 21Elizabeth Fisher3 Environmental law beyond emergencies: lessons from thefuture 38Josephine van Zeben and Arden Rowell4 Overcoming gridlock in environmental law: adaptivestrategies for reflexive law 56Li YuanPART II ISSUE AREAS5 Using due diligence standards to regulate excessive plasticproduction 86Andrea Cocchini6 Assessment of administrative sanctions of the Chineseemissions trading schemes under proportionality: a law andeconomics perspective 109Ying Xie7 Future-proofing the Indus Waters Treaty: threats, gaps andsolutions 137Durgeshree Raman8 Future-proofing environmental challenges facing the world’stransboundary freshwaters: what role for international waterlaw? 156Patricia Wouters, Alexander Lopez and Dale Campbell9 Rethinking the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic TradeAgreement and the Multilateral Investment Court to enhancethird-party rights in investment treaty arbitration 183Zamira Xhaferri and Jesús RoblesPART III WAYS FORWARD10 Using an environmental competition statute to decarbonise 208David M. Driesen11 The judicial decision-making paradox in environmentalissues: how it creates a future-proof legal system with anAchilles’ heel 228Tong Xu12 Trusteeship for the environment? 252Trevor Daya-Winterbottom13 Adaptation to climate change risks in court: challenges andprospects 274Nicola Pain and Joanna Endacott