An ?ever closer union? of national policy? The convergence of national environmental policy in the European Union

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Liefferink ◽  
Andrew Jordan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
National Environmental ◽  
National Environmental Policy

scholarly journals The role of the European Union Support in implantation the provisions of the National Environmental Policy in years 2004-2006

Equilibrium ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
Bartosz Bartniczak
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Union Support ◽  
National Environmental ◽  
National Environmental Policy

Environmental protection is one of the major challenges of the modern world. Different situation can we observe in Poland. Document which sets out the aims and objectives to achieve in this area is the National Environmental Policy. The article presents what the main goals of this policy are and shows the sources of its funding. A detailed analysis of the financing of environmental policy with the aid of the European Union was carried out. Studies have shown too little spending on environmental protection so that they can be fully realized records of the National Environmental Policy.

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Rise of Environmental Protection in the 1970s, and the Political Drama of the Next Three Decades

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James K. Conant ◽  
Peter J. Balint
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Environmental Impact Statement ◽  
National Environmental Policy Act ◽  
Environmental Impact Statements ◽  
Run Up ◽  
National Environmental ◽  
National Environmental Policy

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was approved unanimously in the Senate and with near unanimity in the House of Representatives in December 1969. President Nixon signed the act into law on January 1, 1970. The new statute was both brief and farsighted. In fewer than 3,500 words the congressional authors of NEPA articulated for the first time a national policy on the environment, set in motion an innovative regulatory process centered on environmental impact statements, institutionalized public participation in federal environmental decision making, and introduced the requirement that the president report annually to Congress on the nation’s environmental status and trends. NEPA also included a provision that established a new agency, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), in the Executive Office of the President. The CEQ’s assigned statutory role was to implement the environmental impact statement process, prepare the president’s annual environmental report on the condition of the environment, develop policy proposals for solving environmental problems, and coordinate efforts across the federal government to address environmental concerns. As stated in the law, NEPA is designed to “encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment”; to “promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man”; and to “fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations.” The references to promoting harmony between people and the environment, protecting the biosphere, and affirming the nation’s responsibility for environmental stewardship illustrate an understanding of the scope, scale, and significance of environmental matters that was significantly ahead of its time. The language in NEPA quoted above anticipated by twenty years the concern for the Earth’s biosphere and the concept of environmental sustainability that would become more widely articulated in the run-up to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Moreover, NEPA has had an enduring global impact. By the law’s fortieth anniversary, a majority of U.S. states had established their own environmental impact statement requirements and more than 160 nations worldwide had adopted similar legislation.

scholarly journals Environmental policies, bases for territorial planning. An approximation to the study of the environmental policies of the European Union. Challenges and future perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 229-279
Author(s):  
Ana Mariño García
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
European Environmental Policy ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Near Future

This work is aimed at analysing the functioning of the environmental policies of the European Union in order to address the use of these policies as well as the instruments to implement them, observing their efficacy to protect and preserve the environment in general and their particular social and human implications. First we will analyse international environmental policy, focusing on its consolidation through the creation of international organizations and treaties and on its theoretical background. Then, we will move forward to the development of environmental policy within the European Union, focusing on the functioning of this policy emphasizing its legal foundations on European Treaties. For this purpose we will analyse the principle of integration as well as the effectiveness of implementation regarding transposition of European law into national policy. We will also focus on the current situation of environmental policy within the Union going through the main innovations of the recent European Green Deal. Finally, some case studies will show us the reality of the European environmental policy and some of the challenges it will have to overcome in the near future. Through this work we will approach the repercussions the development of environmental policy has in international relations, paying special attention to its implications at supranational, national and regional scope within the European Union.

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