Report on the International Conference Titled ‘Green Criminology and Green Deal’

Absztrakt

On 4-5 March 2024, an international conference on ‘Green Criminology and Green Deal: Environment and climate protection – an unshiftable task for criminal law’ was held in Miskolc, Hungary, as part of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation- funded partnership project “On the systematization of criminal responsibility of and in companies”4 between the Universities of Heidelberg and Miskolc. The aim of the institute partnership is to systematise practical experience and knowledge on the criminal liability of companies and to discuss criminal policy responses to technological and social changes, involving academics and practitioners (legal profession, public administration and judiciary), doctoral students and law stu- dents, to analyse comparative legal and to develop new solution concepts. This conference was the fourth and final event in this partnership project. Academic and practitioner speakers came from Germany and from Hungary, which can look back on an environmentally-oriented tradition of their universities, especially in Miskolc, from Austria, which has repeatedly followed a particular path in the implementation of Union law requirements in criminal law, and from Liechten- stein, an EEA state. The fourth conference aimed to provide a framework for a knowledge-based inter- and intradisciplinary discourse on green criminology and he European Union’s Green Deal.