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Final Consumption and Sustainability – Contribution of Consumer Law
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SYSNO ASEP 0583775 Document Type C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.) R&D Document Type Conference Paper Title Final Consumption and Sustainability – Contribution of Consumer Law Author(s) Simon, Rita (USP-I) ORCID Source Title Climate Law and Litigation : Planetary, Regional, and Societal Perspectives. - Graz : Research Center for Climate Law, University of Graz, 2023 - ISBN 978-3-903374-27-0 Pages s. 123-151 Number of pages 29 s. Publication form Online - E Action ClimLaw: Graz 1st Annual PhD Workshop on Climate Law and Litigation Event date 23.05.2022 - 27.05.2022 VEvent location online Country AT - Austria Event type WRD Language eng - English Country AT - Austria Keywords consumption ; sustainability ; climate change ; EU ; SDG Subject RIV AG - Legal Sciences OECD category Law Institutional support USP-I - RVO:68378122 Annotation From the legal point of view, it is important to scrutinise why legislative instruments are very rarely used for a more sustainable nudging of end-consumers and why the intertwining of environmental and consumer law to tackle climate change is still missing. It seems that European consumer law still puts more effort into the achievement of the single market, which is key to stimulating European economic growth, rather than examining the negative impact of consumerism and to reduce them. On the one hand, it should be underlined that Consumer choice is limited to the products available on the market, because most of a product´s environmental impact is determined at the design stage. On the other hand, it should be possible to enhance more sustainable consumption with well-designed legal requirements.
This paper will first clarify - after a short introduction to the concept of sustainable consumption as a binding universal call - (1) why final consumption matters and what are the limits of citizens’ capacity towards sustainable consumption (2). Second, it will analyse how European legislation tackles sustainable production and consumption, with a main focus on more sustainable contract law ensured by the pioneer Member States (3). Finally, it will identify the uncovered consumer issues that should be urgently tackled in the near future to achieve changes in consumer habits (4).Workplace Institute of State and Law Contact Iveta Bůžková, iveta.buzkova@ilaw.cas.cz, Tel.: 221 990 714 Year of Publishing 2024
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