Broadening the Branches and Deepening the Roots of Transnational Environmental Law

From the introduction: The year 2020 has been one of extraordinary tumult and change. At the beginning of the year, few could have predicted how the COVID-19 pandemic would so radically pervade every aspect of human lives and livelihoods, with profound implications for how people live, love, move, work, and connect in our societies. The pandemic has also vividly illustrated our global interconnectedness, as well as the ways in which an initially localized problem can come to transcend international boundaries, with national, provincial, and local implications. The various environmental challenges examined in this issue from climate change to biodiversity to persistent organic pollutants are similarly cross-sectional in nature and effect. For example, like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is recognized as a truly global problem, yet one with myriad distinctive impacts and policy responses in different regions, countries, and localities.