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We invite you to read below a selection of popular content published in the journal over the years. Divided into five categories, the highlighted content is among the top cited and top viewed (via the IOS Press Content Platform). If you click on the links, you can read an extract from each of the articles; a link is given at the end of each extract via which you can access the article in full (subscription required, unless otherwise indicated).

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As we celebrate the publication of Volume 50 of Environmental Policy and Law in 2020, we are compiling a list of the top 50 landmark papers. We also invite readers of the journal to submit their selection of their favourite articles published over the years. Maybe your choice will make it into the top 50 or we can add it to the 'more highlighted articles' section at the foot of this page. Contact us by email with a subject heading of "EPL top picks" and send to: editorial@iospress.nl.

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Biodiversity

Generating Global Momentum for Action on Biodiversity Loss
E. Laina | View Extract

Marine Biological Diversity Beyond Areas of National Jurisdiction
A. Broggiato | View Extract

International Biodiversity and the World Trade Organization: Relationship and Potential for Mutual Supportiveness
B.Ogolla, M.A. Lehmann and X. Wang | View Extract

Consitutional Impacts on Conservation – Effects of Federalism on Biodiveristy Protection (Canada)
M.L. Campbell and V.G. Thomas | View Extract

The Biodiversity Convention Negotiation Process and Some Comments on the Outcome
V. Koester | View Extract

Financing Biodiversity Conservation
R. Lake | View Extract

Climate

Climate Change and Global Environmental Politics: North-South Divide
Md. Kamal Uddin | View Extract

Children's Rights and Climate-Change Policy: Addressing the Concerns of Children and Future Generations
M. Deva Prasad and C. Suchithra Menon | View Extract

Ozone Layer Protection at the Turn of the Century: The Eleventh Meeting of the Parties
S. Oberthür | View Extract

Global Warming: The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond
E.A. Smelof | View Extract

Compliance Regimes for Multilateral Environmental Agreements – A Progress Report
P. Széll | View Extract

The Second Conference of the Parties (COP2) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change
S. Oberthür | View Extract

Energy

European “Energy Union” Becomes a Reality
T.R. Young | View Extract

Catalysing Biofuel Sustainability – International and National Policy Interventions (Sub-Saharan Africa)
A. Gasparatos, L. Lee, G.P. von Maltitz, M.V. Mathai, J.A. Puppim de Oliveira, F.X. Johnson, and K.J. Willis | View Extract

Clean Energy and Sustainable Development
M.T. El-Ashry | View Extract

Electric Energy and the Environment
H. Blix | View Extract

Marine

Why Law and Politics Matter for Marine Conservation – The Case of the Chagos Marine Protected Area
P. Harris | View Extract

International Law and Disappearing States – Maritime Zones and the Criteria for Statehood
R. Rayfuse | View Extract

Marine Genetic Resources beyond National Jurisdiction – Coordination and Harmonisation of Governance Regimes
A. Broggiato | View Extract

The Chagos Archipelago – Footprint of Empire, or World Heritage?
P. Sand | View Extract

Modern Principles of High Seas Governance: The Legal Underpinnings
D. Freestone | View Extract

The Ministerial Declaration: An Important Step (Black Sea)
E. Hey and L.D. Mee | View Extract

Pollution

Plastics Pollution: A New Common Concern of Humankind?
B.K. Sidhui and B.H. Desai | View Extract

Legal and Environmental Policy on Solid Waste Pollution and Protection (Kazakhstan)
D. Bekezhanov, D. Daniya Nurmukhankyzy, S. Tinistanova, G. Kopbassarovaiv and A. Zhangushukova | View Extract

The Polluter-Pays Principle in Environmental Impact Assessments: A Case of “Bipolar” Regulatory Failure (Chile)
E. Costa Cordella | View Extract

Lead Pollution from Shooting and Angling, and a Common Regulative Approach
V.G. Thomas and R.Guitart | View Extract

The "Pollution" Concept in International Law
P. van Heijnsbergen | View Extract

Bargaining in Regulative Policy Implementation: The Case of Air and Water Pollution Control (Germany)
J. Hucker | View Extract

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Popular articles that didn't fit the above categories:

Martens Clause for Environmental Protection
D. Shelton and A. Kiss | View Full Article

Sustainability of Outer Space: Facing the Challenge of Space Debris
B. Gupta and R. Sinha Roy | View Full Article

The Problems of Municipal Waste Management in the Context of European Integration (Ukraine)
L.R. Danyliuk, N.R. Kobetska and Z.V. Yaremak | View Full Article

An Evaluation of Inland Water Pollution Control (Bangladesh)
D. Hassani and B.K. Saha | View Full Article

The Proposed Global Pact for the Environment: A Framework for Consistent Realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals
Teresa Parejo-Navajas | View Full Article

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