Environmental law

Brexit represents a meaningful change within the legal and political framework of the EU-UK relationship. The current food and water security regulations, as well as the environmental impact assessment standards, could be considered at stake. Thus considered, this paper points out Brexit not just as a mere “breakdown” in the system in order to lower the contemporary established environmental standards. Indeed, potential environmental risks posed by Brexit could be effectively mitigated by applying the principle of non-regression, and simultaneously institutions can move forward adopting greener legal instruments and political actions inter alia creating new environmental governance and maintaining a high level of cooperation with the EU.

The global pandemic crisis has uncovered the most vulnerable nerves in our socio-economic network, making it clear that there is a need to frame the relationship between the spread of the coronavirus and the ecosystem fracture. Each ecosystem has a balance that allows it to provide resources and renew itself until it reaches a sort of breaking point (the so-called “tipping point”). The Coronavirus, together with the progressive loss of biodiversity and resources to react, risks becoming our tipping point.