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This collection provides an updated edition of Richard Macrory's most influential writings including all the works which have helped shape contemporary environmental law and policy. Themes explored include regulatory reform, institutional change, Europe and the environment, and enforcement

The British Office for Environmental Protection was established in 2021 following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union. It is the most recent of just a handful of independent environmental watchdog bodies established in global jurisdictions to date, and has a broad range of powers. These include the evaluation of government policy, advice to government on new environmental law, reviewing the implementation of environmental law, and enforcement powers against government and other public bodies for breaches of environmental duties. The need for such bodies in the environmental field is important, and the Office for Environmental Protection may provide a useful model for other countries.

The environmental implications of the UK leaving the EU have yet to be fully realized, but the picture is by no means all negative. Initially, as far as possible, all EU environmental legislation continues to apply in the interests of regulatory certainty but divergences are beginning to emerge. Brexit has led to the proposed establishment of a new independent environmental watchdog, and the Government has committed itself to ambitious environmental goals. The Common Agricultural Policy will be replaced by financial schemes that will pay farmers only for public benefits, mainly concerning the environment. At the same time, a consequence of Brexit is that that the UK will see increasing divergencies in environmental law and policy within its devolved administrations. ; Trudno jeszcze wyrokować jakie będą implikacje wyjścia Zjednoczonego Królestwa z Unii Europejskiej, ale w żadnym razie obraz w całości nie jawi się jedynie negatywnie. Początkowo, jak tylko to możliwe, prawodawstwo unijne w kwestiach środowiskowych w całości jest stosowane w interesie odpowiednich regulacji, chociaż zaczynają pojawiać się też rozbieżności. Brexit doprowadził do zaproponowania ustanowienia nowego niezależnego ciała stojącego na straży środowiska, a Rząd Jej Królewskiej Mości zobowiązał się do osiągnięcia ambitnych celów w tym obszarze. Wspólna Polityka Rolna zostanie zastąpiona finansowymi programami, które będą gratyfikowały rolników za ich działania dla dobra wspólnego, szczególnie w sferze spraw związanych ze środowiskiem. Równocześnie, konsekwencją Brexitu jest fakt, że Zjednoczone Królestwo zauważy w przyszłości pogłębiające się rozbieżności w prawie i polityce środowiskowej zdecentralizowanych administracji.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is increasingly viewed as one of the most significant ways of dealing with green house gas emissions. Critical to realising its potential will be the design of effective legal regimes at national and international level that can handle effectively the challenges raised but without stifling a new technology of potential great public benefit. These include long-term liability for storage, regulation of transport, the treatment of stored carbon under emissions trading regimes, issues of property ownership, and increasingly the sensitivities of handling the public engagement and perception. Since its publication in 2011, Carbon Capture and Storage quickly became required reading for all those interested in or engaged by the need to implement regulatory approaches to CCS. The intervening years have seen significant developments globally. Earlier legislative models are now in force, providing important lessons for future legal design. Despite these developments, the growth of the technology has been slower in some jurisdictions than others. This timely new edition will update and critically assess these updates as well as providing context for the development of CCS in 2018 and beyond