The study presented herein involves a critical examination of the formulation of restoration and recompense sanctions for environmental damage in Indonesia. Although there are certain legal frameworks – such as Law No. 32/2009 – in place, their implementation has been largely ineffective. This paper explores the potential of incorporating local wisdom, green victimology, and comparative legal approaches. Indigenous practices in Indonesia aligning with the principles of green victimology, which acknowledges both non-human victims. A comparative analysis of legal frame-works in Australia and New Zealand reveals a stronger emphasis on restoration and recompense. The study highlights the need to integrate local wisdom and green victimology and calls for the recognition of broader categories of victims, include the prioritisation of restorative measures within the available legal sanctions.

When State aid decisions are contested before the Court of Justice of the European Union, the beneficiary may face the risk of having to reimburse the aid to the State. Legal certainty in the area of State aid is crucial – not only for the recipient, but also for the broader EU economy, particularly given the increasingly competitive and complex global environment. This article analyses the CJEU’s approach to interpreting Article 108 TFEU, especially in light of its obligation to avoid outcomes that conflict with the specific provisions of the Treaty. The analysis is prompted by the landmark judgment in Case C-594/18 P, Republic of Austria v European Commission, in which the Court appeared to dismiss the need for an inextricable link when assessing State aid in relation to environmental matters. This raises the question of whether similar reasoning could apply to other areas of EU law. While the Hinkley Point C case introduces further ambiguity, the principal aim of this article is to examine various dimensions of the issue of inextricable links between State aid and different provisions of EU law.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the environmental authority proceeds when they receive a freedom of information request and when such a request pertains to a waste collection licence. This objective is closely accompanied by the research problem worded as follows:
1) Is an authority allowed to share information about a waste collection licence as requested under the freedom of information principle even though it is information about the environment and its protection?
2) Which pieces of information included in a waste collection licence are shared as public information and which as information about the environment and its protection?
The achievement of the research objective and solving the scientific problem served to put forward a research hypothesis that information on a waste collection licence is shared under the Environmental Law. Nevertheless, certain elements of information in waste collection licences are public information. The method of interpretation of the law in force was employed in this paper to achieve the above-mentioned scientific outputs

Forestry Law does not constitute an autonomous branch of law – it is in fact most commonly percieved as part of the environmental law. However, this does not mean, that it is impossible to extract general principles of the Forest Law. The Forest Act contains a catalogue of explicitly formulated general principles of forest management, which at the same time are the principles of forest law. Furthermore, it is possible to reconstruct some additional general principles from specific provisions of the Forest Act, as well as to indicate those of the principles of the environmental law, which may be extended to forestry regulations. The aim of this paper is therefore to formulate and analyse the general principles: (1) expressly articulated by the legislature; (2) possible to reconstruct from the detailed provisions of the Forest Act; (3) of the environmental law, which can be applied to forestry regulations. The result of the survey is a more extensive catalogue of general principles of forest law in directive-descriptive terms, which may contribute to the extension of the autonomy of the forest law.

The paper aims to show that the Polish Environmental Law is an act that imposes
public imposts to protect Poland’s natural environment. This act features certain
specific qualities and legal solutions. The author has formulated a claim that some
of the provisions concerning the fees for the use of the natural environment and
the emissions surcharge breach the constitutional standards of exclusivity of an
impost act, of the right to predictable taxation, decent legislation, and a democratic
state of law.

Climate change is one of the key civilisational issues. This change is caused by greenhouse gas emission. Stopping this change requires multidirectional actions on a global scale, primarily limiting the combustion of fossil fuels. What reaches towards these needs is the proposals of the international community, which are determined in the protocol of 15 December 2015 (called the Paris Agreement). The legal framework for the strategy of implementing it in the European Union and the member states is formulated by the legislative package “Clean Energy For All Europeans”. The directions and terms of developing the economy pose particular challenges for Poland which plans to maintain
the significant role of coal in the energy industry for decades. Government documents show that the government of the Republic of Poland will not decide on the spectacular decarbonisation of the economy. It cannot be obligated to do it, either, due to the treaty conditions. However, the future of the coal energy industry seems prejudged. This results from the development directions of European economic-legal instruments which serve the direct (determining binding emission standards and environmental quality standards) and indirect (through influencing the prices of greenhouse gas emission allowances) rationing of the activity of entities from the energy sector in the environment.

The article deals with the issue concerning the place of the of sustainbale development
in the Polish Constitution. It will present the problem of sustainable development legal nature and its consequences. Obligations of public authorities regarding the implementation of sustainable development included in Article 5 of the Constitution, will also be considered with the background of the provisions contained in art. 74 section 1, 68 and 86 of the Constitution. The article will also contain references to contemporary understanding of sustainable development, which results from the acts of international law, including the Rio+20 Declaration and Agenda 2030. The aim of the above analysis is to indicate what shape it should be given today and how currently sustainable development should be understood. That should be the same an indication for public authorities what actions should be taken in order to respond the current understanding of sustainable development.