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In this article, we address the Climate Plan 2025-2035 and the opinion of the State Council's Advisory Division.

The ICLG to Environment & Climate Change Law 2023 covers common issues in environment and climate change laws and regulations - including environmental policy and its enforcement, environmental permits, waste, liabilities, a.o. - in 18 jurisdictions.

With the entry into force of the Environment Act ("Ow") on 1 January 2024, a new system of quality assurance will take effect in stages. In this blog post, we discuss the public law part of this new quality assurance system.

In the Omgevingswet (Environment and Planning Act), the dowry contains state rules that no longer regulate activities at state level, but is carried through to local rules.

Companies are swamped by ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance – regulations. The underlying goal is, of course, worth pursuing: a transition to a sustainable world.

In recent years, the EU has considerably strengthened its legal arsenal around sustainability by imposing requirements on companies to assess, prevent, and mitigate the negative impact of their activities on human rights and the environment.

The European Commission wants to make European industry more competitive with the Clean Industrial Deal. This strategy should help the industry. In this blog we will explain how and when this will happen.

The International Court of Justice has issued an advisory opinion on the climate change obligations of States. What obligations do countries have towards each other, and under what circumstances can they hold each other accountable?

The government wants to exclude sustainability from the permit requirement for nitrogen emissions. But in some cases, this is already possible. How does that work? In this blog, we discuss the proposal and its practical implications.

The European Commission wants to simplify environmental regulations for the benefit of energy infrastructure. Is the sector facing a nitrogen lock? This question and other proposals for acceleration are discussed in this blog.