Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest contemporary challenges and climate change law is rapidly emerging as a specialised field of legal research and practice. The research group has a strong academic and practical experience on climate law and policy.
CCEEL’s Climate Change and Int’l Environmental Law group’s current research interests include:
- The United Nations climate change regime, including the 2015 Paris Agreement
- European Union climate law and policy
- Legitimacy of climate policy and climate justice issues
- Human rights and climate change, public participation and climate change litigation
- National framework laws on climate change and implementation of the Paris Agreement
- Forests and climate change
- Short-lived climate pollutants and the link between climate change and air quality
- Links between climate change and trade law, including border carbon adjustments and other trade measures
- The role of non-state actors in international climate change law and governance, including the role of cities
- Theoretical aspects of climate change law and governance (global and transnational environmental law, polycentric climate governance, new governance, critical international law)
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CCEEL researchers are also active in other fields of international environmental law. Their current research interests relate, among others, to trade and the environment, chemicals and human rights.
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Research Group Members
- Dr Kati Kulovesi, Professor of International Law and International Environmental Law
- Dr Sebastian Oberthür, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law (part time)
- Dr Harro van Asselt, Professor, Professor of Climate Change Law and Policy (part time)
- Dr Annalisa Savaresi, Associate Professor of International Environmental Law
- Dr Yulia Yamineva, Associate Professor of International Law, specialised in climate change Law and Policy
- Dr Kateryna Holzer, Senior Researcher in Climate Law and Policy
- Dr Tuula Honkonen, Senior Lecturer in International and Environmental Law
- Dr Eugenia Recio, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Lauri Petersson, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dr Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Adrian Martinez, PhD Candidate
- Anita Kittery, PhD Candidate
- Antti Jukka, PhD Candidate
- Catherine Hall, PhD Candidate
- Eleanor Reyes Matteo, PhD Candidate (jointly with VUB)
- Firuz Suleymanov, PhD Candidate (jointly with UEF Doctoral Programme in Past, Space and Environment in Society)
- Karl Upston-Hooper, PhD Candidate
- Katri Varis, PhD Candidate
- Maiju Mähönen, PhD Candidate
- Moritz Petersmann, PhD Candidate
- Nicola Sharman, PhD Candidate
- Otto Bruun, PhD Candidate
- Outi Mannien, PhD Candidate
- Patrick Toussaint, PhD Candidate
- Raihanatul Jannat – PhD Candidate
- Reza Maddahi, PhD Candidate
- Saga Eriksson, PhD Candidate
- Tatu Hocksell, PhD Candidate
- Thiago Chagas, PhD Candidate
- Tuomas Palosaari, PhD Candidate
- Vandson dos Santos Galdino, PhD Candidate
- Veera Pekkarinen, PhD Candidate
- Vilja Johansson, PhD Candidate
- Niklas Löther, PhD Candidate
- Bradlie Martz-Sigala, Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Policy and Law
- Sara Tolonen, Project Researcher
- Laura Gonzalez Gamez, Research Assistant
- Nina Koisitinen, Research Assistant
- Sara Lehtilä, Research Assistant
- Siobhán Rose, Research Assistant
- Veera Kankare, Research Assistant
Recently completed PhDs
Rosemary Mwanza, Beyond rhetoric: Can environmental rights provide effective remedies for corporate environmental pollution in the extractive industry in Kenya?
María Eugenia Recio Multiple layers of governance and regulations in forests: Exploring challenges and opportunities for the future REDD+ landscape