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La necessità della regolazione per la sostenibilità
No full textNegli ultimi anni, la sostenibilità è divenuta un obiettivo generale della comunità internazionale, dei singoli Stati, delle imprese, delle associazioni non governative e della società civile. Tale processo di progressiva elevazione dell’importanza dell’obiettivo della sostenibilità è stato suggellato nel 2015 con l’adozione da parte dell’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite degli Obiettivi per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, meglio conosciuti come Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) e della connessa Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile. Il raggiungimento degli obiettivi economici, sociali e ambientali promossi dagli SDGs dovrebbe, a nostro avviso, essere realizzato mediante l’instaurazione di un nuovo sistema di “regolazione per la sostenibilità”, in grado di riconoscere e valorizzare l’originaria e fondamentale matrice ecologica della sostenibilità. A tal fine, l’articolo contiene in primo luogo una ricostruzione storica dell’origine del termine sostenibilità e della sua matrice ecologica e, in secondo luogo, presenta e discute il concetto di “regolazione per la sostenibilità”. L’instaurazione del nuovo sistema di “regolazione per la sostenibilità” dovrebbe essere accompagnata da un deciso cambio di prospettiva dal punto di vista metodologico, temporale e sostanziale. In tale contesto, nel presente articolo viene discusso il necessario riesame degli strumenti attualmente utilizzati per la protezione ambientale, nell’ottica di un ribilanciamento tra strumenti di comando e controllo da una parte e meccanismi economici dall’altra.Sustainability has become a widespread and commonly agreed goal at international, national, business, NGO and civil society level. Such a growing consensus on the importance of sustainability is witnessed by the recent adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the related 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In our opinion, the attainment of the economic, social and environmental targets promoted by the SDGs should be reached through the design and implementation of a new regulatory system, which should properly recognize and endorse the ecological core of sustainability. Such a new regime should be named “regulation for sustainability”. To this effect, the article firstly reconstructs the historical origin of the term sustainability and its ecological core and secondly presents and discusses the concept of “regulation for sustainability”. The establishment of the new regulatory system proposed needs a sharp change of perspective from the methodological, temporal and substantial point of view. In such a context, the article proposes a reappraisal of the existing regulatory mechanisms for environmental protection, with the aim of finding a new balance between command and control and market based instruments
Normativa (UE, italiana e Regionale) sulle energie rinnovabili e le relative linee di incentivazione
No full textProfili giuridico-istituzionali dell’Enciclica Laudato sì
No full text1. Introduzione. – 2. Dalle crisi settoriali alla crisi ecologica. – 3. La debolezza della reazione
internazionale. – 4. Grandi percorsi di dialogo (linee di orientamento e di azione). – 5. La
necessità di un’ecologia integrale. – 6. Conclusioni
Sustainable Development at a turning point
Full text linkThe principle of sustainable development in the last three decades has reached a pivotal role in international and national policies at the crossroads between economic development, social development and environmental protection. However, it is now at a crucial turning point, which has been determined by the concurrent occurrence of three independent, and yet concatenate events, which have happened in a short period of time, during 2015:
1) the re-launch of the ethical dimension (due to Pope Francis’s Encyclical Letter Laudato Sì - On care for our common home);
2) the approval of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which dictates the global agenda for the promotion of sustainable development patterns for the next fifteen years;
3) the conclusion of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which recognises the need to integrate climate change and sustainable development considerations, in particular with a view to promote the increase of climate change related international investments.
On the basis of these recent factors, sustainable development is now at the centre of the scene and cannot hide itself any longer. As a consequence, the next few decades will be crucial to determine its success or its failure. No mid-solution seems to be possible. Therefore the question to be answered is essentially the following one: has the time finally come for the renaissance of the concept of sustainable development, aiming at its full and meaningful application, after so many years of uncertainty about its effective role, or the concept, despite the short and intense glory that it may experience in the next few years, is destined in the medium-long term to the sunset boulevard
Sustainable Development Goals: much ado about nothing?
No full textThe UN General Assembly recently adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The article presents a brief reasoned commentary of the SDGs. In particular, it investigates the kind of sustainable development promoted by the SDGs. In this sense, it looks at the question of the precise meaning of sustainable development supported by the 2030 agenda. It then focuses on the relevance, within the SDGs, of the environmental dimension of sustainable development and on its inescapable ecological core. On the basis of the analysis, it emerges that the SDGs may represent a missed opportunity to propose and steer a paradigmatic shift away from the mainstream unsustainable development model, still embedded in a very traditional ‘growth economy’ reference scenario. Therefore, despite their positive features, there is a high risk that the SDGs may finally give rise to ‘much ado about nothing’
In Praise of Sustainablity: The Encyclical Letter Laudato Sì and its legal-economic Implications
No full textThe Encyclical Letter “Laudato Sì. On Care For Our Common Home”, issued by Pope Francis in May 2015, contains some legal and economic aspects that go beyond a purely religious relevance, touching upon the political, social, and ethical spheres. The present contribution aims to identify these aspects of the Encyclical Letter, providing a brief reasoned analysis of its most interesting and relevant features, namely the emergence and the human origin of the ecological crisis, the critique of the dominant technocratic paradigm, the weakness of the institutional and legal international response, and the major paths of dialogue proposed by the Encyclical Letter to overcome “the spiral of self-destruction” which humanity is currently confronting. This contribution then focuses on integral ecology as the proposed solution to tackle the present ecological crisis and the call for an ecological conversion. On the basis of the analysis, a final section highlights some tipping points which are worthy of further comment, and ontextualises Pope Francis’ views in the light of the most relevant scientific literature on these topics
Regulation for Sustainability: Promoting an Ecology-based Approach
Full text linkThe article argues for the need to rethink and revise the current regulatory system in order to promote a new ecology-based approach to sustainability. It first focuses on the fundamental question of the true meaning of sustainability. The historical origin of the term sustainability is traced and analysed. An essential research question is then investigated, namely what should be sustained by sustainability. This is a crucial issue, since despite widespread use of the term sustainability, it is evident that a general understanding of the object and aim of sustainability is lacking. Thirdly, the issue of how to rethink and revise regulation in order to promote a new regulatory regime based on the concept of ecological sustainability is tackled. Thus a triple change in perspective is proposed, with the aim of contributing to a shift from the current economic model, based on the mantra of infinite economic growth, to a more balanced approach, aimed at pursuing ecological integrity and promoting human development in harmony with nature
The need for a new regulatory approach for the promotion of ecological sustainability
No full textThis chapter examines how state sovereignty can be reconciled with trusteeship. The environmental crisis and the state of the global commons give rise to the need for revisiting the relationship between sovereignty and trusteeship. The only way to turn things around and move international law from the Westphalian conflict model to a twenty-first-century cooperation model is to re-define states as trusteeship organizations. That state sovereignty is fundamentally a trust relationship cannot be dismissed as a Western ideal. Legal ownership means control and power, but a lot depends on whether land is owned individually or collectively and whether ownership involves obligations of care and stewardship. A particularly powerful form of applied stewardship ethics is to claim legal ownership over the commons, in particular the global commons. The idea of global nature's trusts has been promoted by environmental lawyers Mary Wood and Peter Sand or economist Peter Barnes. © 2016 Laura Westra, Janice Gray and Antonio D’Aloia, selection and editorial material; individual chapters, the author
Energia e filiera agroalimentare: il ruolo delle politiche e normative dell’Unione Europea
No full textLa cosiddetta “sfida energetica”, che impone l’adozione di un nuovo paradigma di azione basato su un uso sostenibile e razionale delle risorse, è oggi una delle maggiori priorità a livello mondiale. La politica in materia di energia è caratterizzata da profonde interconnessioni con diversi ambiti, da quello economico a quello ambientale e sociale. Vi sono infatti varie questioni da considerare quando si affronta l’argomento energia, tra le quali il progressivo esaurimento dei combustibili fossili, le emissioni di gas a effetto serra, la sicurezza energetica, il potenziale di efficienza e di risparmio energetico, la riduzione degli sprechi e, più in generale, i diversi impatti ambientali e sociali della produzione di energia.
La materia dell’energia si presenta quindi complessa da gestire e da regolare e come tale andrebbe affrontata in una prospettiva quanto più transdisciplinare possibile. In tale contesto, risultano particolarmente interessanti le connessioni esistenti con la filiera agroalimentare, spesso evidenziate attraverso l’analisi delle emissioni di gas a effetto serra. Nei seguenti paragrafi, le più importanti politiche e normative dell’Unione Europea in materia di energia saranno esaminate nella prospettiva delle loro implicazioni con la filiera agroalimentare. In particolare, l’analisi verrà strutturata intorno alle tre principali fasi della filiera agroalimentare, che rivelano forti connessioni con le politiche in materia di energia, vale a dire quella della produzione, quella della gestione del prodotto alimentare, che include le fasi di trasformazione, distribuzione, consumo e quella dello smaltimento dei rifiuti alimentari corrispondente alla fase di fine vita
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