“We want to offer all climate lawyers in Europe a home”
Together with numerous legal scholars from all over Europe, IKEM Director Prof. Dr. Michael Rodi will launch the European Association of Climate Law (EACL). In this interview, we spoke to him about the aims of this new association, the program of the first EACL conference (on 22. and September 23, 2025 in Berlin) and prospects […]
Climate Change: Is Law Able to solve a Global and Intergenerational Challenge?
IKEM at the COP29
Each COP is a defining moment in the fight for our planet and a sustainable future. Scientific findings including the latest IPCC reports and the worrying development of global warming have repeatedly stressed the need for urgent climate action – a key priority for this year’s COP29, hosted in Baku (Azerbaijan) between 11 and 22 […]
Climate Change: Is law able to solve a global and intergenerational challenge?
Emma Bolopion
Emma Bolopion is a Research Associate in the Energy Law Department at IKEM. She studied law at the Université Paris Pantheon 2 Assas, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the University of Amsterdam. She obtained two LLMs, specialising in human rights and environmental law. She is currently a PhD candidate in public international law, in a […]
“Developing the constitutional debt system in the context of climate protection”
With its ruling on November 15, 2023, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the Second Supplementary Budget Act 2021 null and void. The law aimed to allocate EUR 60 billion in unutilized credit appropriations to the “Climate and Transformation Fund” (KTF), originally earmarked for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. According to the decision by the Federal […]
Das Instrumentarium zur staatlichen Finanzierung der Energietransformation
Klima-Governance im Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz
A Jurist’s Perspective on the Sustainability Crisis: International Climate Law: Overcoming an Implementation Crisis
Klima und Recht (05/2023)
