Dear Colleague,
The year 2022 witnessed a great amount of perplexity on the global environmental scene. In continuation of our coverage of significant global environmental events and legal processes, this first issue of 2023 comprises an article (B. H. Desai) making scrutiny of the normative significance of the Stockholm+50 Conference outcome.
This issue covers a specially invited article (D. Bodansky) that provides a retrospective and an assessment of the thirty years trajectory of the global climate change regulatory juggernaut.
The issue also covers four other seminal legal, policy and institutional perspectives on global environmental concerns as follows: (i) mapping the new horizons of law and science through the lens of 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (M. P. Poto et al.); (ii) concerted environmental justice issues in urban roof top policies of three North American cities (S. R. Asl); (iii) use of ecosystem services model in sustainable coral reefs management (Andreas Pramudianto et al.) and (iv) the legal framework for carbon tax in Cameroon (G. F. Ngwome) as an exemplar that could be replicated elsewhere.
The first issue sets the stage for EPL’s intensive scholarly coverage of other seminal global environmental legal developments during 2023.
All papers are free to read, because EPL has transitioned to a Subscribe to Open model.
With warm regards,
Bharat H. Desai
Editor-in-Chief
