On the evening of 4 November 2021, the 6th lecture of “New Horizons Overseas” – “The Climate Protection Judgement of the German Federal Constitutional Court and Its Consequences for Climate Protection Law”, hosted by the Civil, Commercial Economic Law School, was successfully held online.

The speaker was Professor Matthias Knauff, the Chair Professor of public law at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the judge at the Procurement Senate of the Thuringian Higher Regional Court in Germany. The moderator was Professor Cao Mingde, the editor-in-chief of “China University of Political Science and Law Journal”, and the discussants were Assistant Professor Lu Mengxing from the Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School, Assistant Professor Liu Bingyu from the School of International Law  and Assistant Professor Zhang Ran from the School of Master of Laws, CUPL. More than 130 scholars and students in and outside the CUPL participated in the lecture online.

In the lecture, focused on the recent unconstitutional judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court on the “German Climate Protection Act”, Professor Matthias Knauff introduced the legal documents issued by the international community, the European Union and Germany in response to the challenge of climate change, and laid special stress on the core content of relevant decisions to the German Federal Constitutional Court on the German Climate Protection Act, interpreted the key clauses of the current German Federal Climate Change Act, and had full exchanges and discussions on relevant issues with the audience.