Marjan Peeters is Professor of Environmental Policy and Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, while being affiliated with the Maastricht Sustainability Institute, and the Research Institute of Environmental law at Wuhan University in China. Her research focuses on EU environmental and climate change law. In her presentation, she focused on the role of climate litigation in the context of EU emissions reduction legislation. She underlined that since the EU has already adopted a comprehensive package of climate laws, consisting of several regulatory instruments, examining compliance with and enforcement of existing emission reduction obligations (and the role of litigation with regard to that) is key. Next to enforcement of hard law, she also pointed at the softer steering mechanisms of the EU, particularly the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action Regulation. Regarding this, she elaborated on the potential important role that non-binding European Commission recommendations to EU Member States probably (unexpectedly) can play in national climate litigation. In her interview, she further elaborated on the state of climate litigation, and shared her perspective on the role of courts vis a vis democratically elected legislators in climate lawmaking processes at the EU and member states' levels.
Marjan Peeters是荷兰马斯特里赫特大学的环境政策和法律教授，兼任马斯特里赫特可持续发展研究所和中国武汉大学环境法研究所的研究员。她的研究重点是欧盟环境和气候变化法。在演讲中，她重点阐述了气候诉讼在欧盟减排立法中的作用。她强调说，由于欧盟已经通过了一揽子由几项管治工具而构成的全面气候法，因此审查现有的减排义务的遵守情况和执行情况（以及与此相关的诉讼角色）至关重要。除了执行法律之外，她还指出了欧盟较为宽松的指导机制，特别是欧盟能源联盟的管理和欧盟气候规章。关于这一点，她阐述了欧盟委员会对欧盟成员国的不具约束力的建议也许（意料之外地）在国家气候诉讼中也许会发挥的潜在重要作用。在采访中，她进一步阐述了欧洲的气候诉讼的现状，并分享了她对法院和欧盟委员会，相对于民选立法者，在欧盟和成员国层面的气候立法过程中所发挥作用的见解。