{"id":6703,"date":"2021-05-03T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T11:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euracoal.eu\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2021-05-03T13:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T11:45:40","slug":"on-the-unintended-consequences-of-the-aarhus-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/?p=6703","title":{"rendered":"On the unintended consequences of the Aarhus Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EURACOAL submitted its <a href=\"https:\/\/public.euracoal.eu\/download\/Public-Archive\/Library\/Position-Papers\/EURACOAL_20201210_Consultation-Response-on-ENV-justice-02LH.pdf\">position paper<\/a> with a letter to the European Commission in which we warn against measures that risk slowing new investment in clean technologies. Current proposals to revise the \u201cAarhus Regulation\u201d would delay transformation of the EU energy sector as interest groups seek to challenge new developments of all types. \u00a0Why?\u00a0 Because every project could be argued to have a climate impact, and any NGO could claim to represent the environment.<\/p>\n<p>EURACOAL supports equal access to justice. However, access should only be granted to those directly affected. Extending justice to all under climate law risks opening a Pandora\u2019s box whereby literally anyone can claim harm caused by others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Secure planning procedures<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To transform the EU energy sector and economy, we need faster investment procedures, not slower ones. EURACOAL has urged the European Commission to begin a process to renegotiate the UNECE Aarhus Convention at the international level, so that a better balance can be found between access to justice and a secure planning framework for clean-tech investments.<\/p>\n<p>photo: Isbjerget as seen from the high speed ferry \u00c5rhus-Sj\u00e6llands Odde on the way out of the harbour in \u00c5rhus, Denmark (\u00a9 Slaunger \/ Wikimedia Commons\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC-BY-SA-3.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EURACOAL submitted its position paper with a letter to the European Commission in which we warn against measures that risk slowing new investment in clean technologies. Current proposals to revise the \u201cAarhus Regulation\u201d would delay transformation of the EU energy sector as interest groups seek to challenge new developments of all types. \u00a0Why?\u00a0 Because every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipe.euracoal.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}