Special Issue: Fit for 55 and Beyond

How is the EU turning climate ambition into action? 

This Special Issue takes stock of the EU’s Fit for 55 package, Europe’s most ambitious climate legislation to date, and explores what comes next. The editorial by Goran Dominioni and Seita Vesa sets the stage, examining the package’s development, its role in shaping EU climate governance, and the broader political and economic shifts influencing its implementation.

From forests and litigation to trade, circular economy, and the emergence of the Do No Significant Harm principle, the articles in this issue offer a deep dive into the legal and policy frameworks driving the EU’s transition to climate neutrality, now and beyond 2030.

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In this issue:

• Editorial by Goran Dominioni & Seita Vesa: Shaping Europe's climate neutral future: The Fit for 55 framework
• Accelerating the EU's climate transformation: The European Green Deal's Fit for 55 Package unpacked by Sebastian Oberthür & Kati Kulovesi
• Piecing together the jigsaw: Forests in the EU's Fit for 55 Package by  Caterina Sasso,  Annalisa Savaresi &  Seita Vesa
• A two-directional coherence framework for the environment-trade nexus: A case study on ‘circular’ recycled content requirements and the technical barriers to trade agreement by  Harri Kalimo & Eleanor Mateo
• Litigating the Fit for 55 Package: Statutory and rights-based challenges to national energy and climate plans as a means of implementing and/or enhancing the ambition of the EU's Fit for 55 Package by Orla Kelleher & Clodagh Daly
• Beyond ‘Fit for 55’: The emergence of the ‘Do No Significant Harm’ principle in EU law and EU funding mechanisms by  Rosalba Famà