Climate Change Law in the EU

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The objective of the module is to fill the existing gap in Croatian higher education regarding EU climate change law and to provoke scholarly and public debate on climate change regulation. The University of Zagreb currently offers only one optional course on environmental law focused on Croatian law. The proposed module, based at the Zagreb Faculty of Law, would therefore provide both students of law and other disciplines with an opportunity to learn about the current issues of climate change law on an advanced level and to engage in discussion with foreign academics, NGO representatives and state officials, who would participate in the course as guest speakers. Given the increasing level of interest and concern that the younger generations are paying to environmental protection, the module represents a timely response to the existing educational gap. Most of the teaching activities will take place within a new elective course “Climate Change Law in the EU” and in the form of teaching units within several existing courses. The teaching will be focused on improving students’ problem identification and solving skills. Further activities within the scope of the module will consist in research (published in academic papers), a final conference which will synthetise and disseminate the project findings, a web page and finally a workshop for students who have completed this course, which will train them to hold short 45 min presentations to elementary or high school students, in order raise climate change awareness from an early age and knowledge on how the EU is addressing the issue. The most important output of the module is to increase awareness and knowledge on EU climate change law among young citizens, to build up a community of students taking the course, who will, once they start their practice, represent the driving force for the adoption and enforcement of environmental law in Croatia and to network that community with foreign academics and practitioners.