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Dr hab. Maciej Nyka
ORCID: 000-0003-0786-7785

Head of the Department of Public Economic Law and Environmental Protection, at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk and a professor at the Department of Environmental Toxicology, Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk. He is also the deputy chairman of the Space Research Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences, branch in Gdańsk. He is the author and coauthor of numerous books and scientific articles published in leading publishing houses and journals in Poland and abroad. His main area of research interest are problems at the intersection of economic law and environmental law, both at the national, EU and international level. Currently, his research focuses on the legal aspects of climate protection and legal challenges of marine environmental protection.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2024.8.4
JEL: K32

The purpose of the article is to present climate change and its most significant socioeconomic consequences. Within the framework of the study, the authors choose to answer the question of whether progressive climate change and related natural disasters may constitute a violation of constitutional regulations protecting public finance discipline. At the same time, the authors propose amendments to the constitutional debt limit to adapt it to the changing climate reality.

Keywords: climate change; fiscal rules; debt limit; Polish Constitution; public debt
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2020.8.4
JEL: K32

The aim of this article is to analyze the potential impact of international climate law on the trade liberalization. Flexibility mechanisms introduced by the Kyoto protocol and Paris agreement result in the creation of trade-related environmental measures. Those measures are created by the states in their national policies aiming at implementation of flexibility mechanisms into national legal orders. Trade-related environmental measures are not directly identified by the WTO law. This creates a situation where such measures may be challenged in the WTO dispute resolution system. Article shows potential threats and tries to underline axiological common ground between climate change law and WTO law, which enable wider acceptance of the use of trade-related environmental measures between the WTO members.

Keywords: trade-related environmental measures; environmental protection; environmental law; climate law; Paris Agreement; UNFCCC