abstracts_mcel_thesis_project_greening_europe_final.pdf
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… for sustainable investments The Taxonomy Regulation is set up as a framework under the European Green Deal to facilitate climate dedicated funding. For its implementation, strict deadlines are being posed to the European Commission to fill in this framework through delegated acts containing the technical screening criteria on which investments are considered ‘environmentally sustainable’. Next to this, the text of the Taxonomy Regulation encourages public participation to this complex environmental decision-making. The Aarhus Convention on decision- making in environmental matters, to which the EU is a party, also dedicates a second pillar to … Convention’s procedural rights is limited where regulations spanning the financial and environmental dimension collide, this research aims to determine how the second pillar of the Aarhus Convention and its values enshrined on the European level can shape the Taxonomy Regulation’s implementation. An evaluation of the Taxonomy Regulation’s provisions alongside the theoretical framework build on the second Aarhus pillar and the EU’s soft law approach to public participation reveals an intrinsic …