Welcome Dr Lisa Moghera from University of Edinburgh,

the Senior Lecturer in your global environmental law.

Today she's going to speak about the interaction between EU's external environmental quality and international environmental law. If you look at Lisa's

webpage on the University of Edinburgh, you see she's a prolific author, she's been quite intimidated

via the list of publications, monographs, on a range of issues on environment, a lot.

So thank you so much for coming along today.

I know that you're in the middle of a spatical and working on another monogram, so I'm really

grateful that you've taken time out to come and talk to us today, so thank you very much.

All right, now thank you so much for the invitation. I'm very happy to share with you some of my latest thinking on the role of the EU and the global

environmental scene.

And in a way, this presentation gives you an opportunity to bring together two different

streams of research of mine.

So on the one hand, some research that have carried out in the past couple of years on the use of EU external,

mostly bilateral tools to impact on the development and implementation of international

environmental law.

And on the other hand, my more recent research which concerns access and benefit sharing,

the Nagoya Protocol, but also more generally the concept or perhaps the legal principle of benefit sharing and how those two

streams of research may actually lead me to identify I think some

interesting venues for further my understanding of how the EU operates internationally and how it relates to third countries,

to international organizations, and in the context of international lawmaking processes.

So what I would like to do is, first of all, start by looking at what are the goals of the EU

as a global environmental actor, and we don't need to really look very deeply to find out what the EU, what kind of objectives the EU as a global environmental actor and we don't need to really look very deeply to find out

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