Harro Van Asselt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1616802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harro Van Asselt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harro |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Asselt |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ASSELT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3028-0659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 488 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Industrial Decarbonisation in a Fragmented World: Carbon Pricing with Border Adjustments Using Standardized Values
The European Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has the dual objective of preventing carbon leakage and promoting global carbon pricing. Yet pursuing both objectives at the same time might result in incomplete carbon leakage protection unless global carbon prices converge. As the current geopolitical situation makes such convergence seem unlikely in the near future, an extension of free allowance allocation is being discussed for affected …
Belém or Bedlam? Transnational Environmental Law in an Era of Contested Multilateralism
of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 1 convened at the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Belm (Brazil), the same country that hosted the famous Rio Earth Summit of 1992. 2 Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva dubbed the 2025 event the 'COP of truth', 3 and delegates had no choice but to confront a number of stark realities: 2024 was the warmest year on record, at approximately 1.55C abo…
Legal Pluralism in Transnational Environmental Law
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Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash
Radical Reform of the International Investment Treaty Regime: A Role for Climate Clubs
There is growing concern that provisions in international investment treaties are being used to delay the critically needed transition away from fossil fuels. Although various procedural and substantive reforms have been pursued in recent years, these reforms have thus far failed to tackle the fundamental problems with investment treaties and the investor‐state dispute settlement (ISDS) system associated with them. By way of an alternative approa…
Clustering as a Solution to Environmental Problem Shifting? The Case of the Basel–Rotterdam–Stockholm Synergies Process
Clustering has been proposed as a strategy to enhance the problem-solving effectiveness of international environmental regimes. But does it fulfill this promise? We explore this question by assessing whether clustering reduces problem shifting—when solving one environmental issue inadvertently creates new problems. We assess the potential of clustering to preempt such dynamics by fostering more coherent, crosscutting governance that accounts for …
Breaking Path Dependencies through Transnational Environmental Law
actors and industry lobby groups have concentrated wealth and authority as well as the motivation to resist the passage of laws that would support effective regulation in the broader public interest').In the climate change context, the concept of 'carbon lock-in' was put forward by Unruh, with other researchers distinguishing between 'infrastructure/technological', 'institutional', and 'behavioural' types of lock-in
Negotiating the Anthropocene: From Bonn to Belém
Courts, climate litigation and the evolution of earth system law
Numerous scientific reports have evidenced the transformation of the earth system due to human activities. These changes – captured under the term ‘Anthropocene’ – require a new perspective on global law and policy. The concept of ‘earth system law’ situates law in an earth system context and offers a new perspective to interrogate the role of law in governing planetary challenges such as climate change. The discourse on earth system law has not …
Fuelling injustice? Safeguarding equity in anti‐fossil fuel norms
This article explores anti‐fossil fuel norms (AFFNs), which set behavioral standards for phasing out practices and processes across the fossil fuel supply chain. In recent years, AFFNs have emerged and become increasingly institutionalized in global climate governance. However, they remain contested and have not yet achieved widespread acceptance. Much of the contestation concerns the perceived equity of these norms. Drawing on insights from the …
The environmental and economic effects of international cooperation on restricting fossil fuel supply
Achieving the Paris Agreement’s global temperature goal of keeping warming well below 2 °C and ideally 1.5 °C requires limiting fossil fuel production. In the United Nations climate change negotiations, this need is only beginning to be acknowledged. Nevertheless, as some countries have already adopted supply-side climate policies, initial cooperative activities have started, and calls grow for a fossil fuel treaty, questions arise about the pros…
The Complexity of Transnational Environmental Law
Transnational Environmental Law and the Future
The re-election of United States (US) President Donald Trump in November 2024 has evoked a sense of dj vu.In 2017, a Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) editorial following his initial election expressed deep concerns about potential upheavals in environmental law while highlighting the resilience that polycentric mechanisms might offer in the face of disrupted US environmental policies. 1Since then, scholarly interest in the interplay between …
The SDGs and fossil fuel subsidy reform
This short perspective asks what is the role-and added value-of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their associated institutional structures in the international governance of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform? It argues that whilst some progress has been made, notably through developing a methodology to define and measure fossil fuel subsidies, countries have only to a very limited extent followed up through indicator reporting an…
Opening the Black Box of Transparency: An Analytical Framework for Exploring Causal Pathways from Reporting and Review to State Behavior Change
Transparency arrangements, in the form of regular reporting by nations and a review of the reported information, have become a backbone of international governance. They are often expected to bring about increased ambition and improved implementation to fulfill the aims of the multilateral agreement in which they are embedded. However, little is still known about how these arrangements result in such effects. In this article, we review compliance…
Mandatory due diligence laws and climate change litigation: Bridging the corporate climate accountability gap
The debate on corporate climate accountability has become increasingly prominent in recent years. Several countries, particularly in the Global North, have adopted mandatory human rights and/or environmental due diligence legislation. At the same time, judicial and quasi‐judicial proceedings are helping to shape the contours of corporate climate accountability. This article considers how litigation against corporations and due diligence legislati…
The Form and Substance of International Cooperation on Border Carbon Adjustments
The European Union's (EU) proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) underscores that the introduction of climate-motivated trade measures is no longer just a matter of academic debate. With countries ramping up domestic climate action at different speeds and levels of ambition, the likelihood of other countries following the EU's lead and adopting a border carbon adjustment (BCA) 1 of their own will only increase. International cooperati…
Building a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty: Key elements
Amid growing recognition of the need for supply-side policies which set limits on the further expansion of fossil fuel extraction and use, in this article we consider possible elements of a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF NPT), behind which there is growing momentum. We elaborate on the possible institutional mechanisms, principles, procedures, and other elements of an FF NPT, by drawing on relevant precedents and parallels with other tr…
Great expectations? A reply to ‘Why do climate change negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems’ by Ulrich J. Frey and Jazmin Burgess
Climate change requires institutional responses commensurate with the size of the problem, which, as existing scientific evidence has made abundantly clear, is enormous.With dangerous climate change impacts becoming a reality across the globe, it is important to better understand the adequacy of prevailing institutional responses and, to the extent that such responses are deemed insufficient, offer suggestions for reform.The article by Frey and B…
COP26 and the dynamics of anti‐fossil fuel norms
Notwithstanding the clear contribution of fossil fuel production and consumption to global greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels have remained largely outside the focus of the international regime established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26) marked an important change, however, with fossil fuels featuring prominently in the intergovernmental negotiations as well as o…
Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground
To achieve the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal, fossil fuel production needs to undergo a managed decline. While some frontrunner countries have already begun to adopt policies and measures restricting fossil fuel supply, an outstanding question is how international cooperation in support of a managed decline of fossil fuel production could take shape. This article explores two possible pathways—one following a club model and the other more ak…
Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade: A Catalytic Framework
This paper examines the Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA) and discusses options to improve sub‐ and non‐state involvement in post‐2020 climate governance. A framework that stimulates sub‐ and non‐state action is a necessary complement to national governmental action, as the latter falls short of achieving low‐carbon and climate‐resilient development as envisaged in the Paris Agreement. Applying design principles for an ideal‐type orchestration …
Reforming fossil fuel subsidies requires a new approach to setting international commitments
Earth system law: Exploring new frontiers in legal science
The Anthropocene requires of us to rethink global governance challenges and effective responses with a more holistic understanding of the earth system as a single intertwined social-ecological system. Law, in particular, will have to embrace such a holistic earth system perspective in order to deal more effectively with the Anthropocene's predicaments. While a growing number of scholars have tried to reimagine law and legal scholarship in a more …
Governing fossil fuel production in the age of climate disruption: Towards an international law of ‘leaving it in the ground’
To achieve the long-term temperature goals set by the 2015 Paris Agreement and avert climate disruption, fossil fuel production cannot continue to proceed unabated. This dawning realisation has led to calls to ‘leave fossil fuels in the ground’. While a growing body of scholarship on ‘supply-side climate policies’ shows how policies curbing fossil fuel production can contribute to climate objective, there has been scarce attention to the role of …
The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis
Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance challenges. In this article we analyze instead “governance architectures,” defined as the overarching system of public and private institutions, principles, norms, regulations, decision-making procedures and organizations that are valid or active in a giv…
Introduction: The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
This article introduces a special issue on the expanding research agenda on institutional fragmentation. The term refers to the growing diversity and challenges to coordination among private and public norms, treaties, and organizations that address a given issue area of international politics. International relations scholars increasingly address this phenomenon, framing it with alternative concepts like regime complexes or polycentricity. A con…
Transparency in multilateral climate politics: Furthering (or distracting from) accountability
This article analyzes the interplay between transparency and accountability in multilateral climate politics. The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for a “pledge‐and‐review” approach to collective climate action with an “enhanced transparency framework” as a key pillar of the Agreement. By making visible who is doing what, transparency is widely assumed to be vital to holding countries to account and building trust. We explore whether transparency is ge…
The evaluation of climate policy: Theory and emerging practice in Europe
Climate policy is a relatively young and dynamic area of public policy making. However, its development has attracted far more attention than the results it delivers in practice, which of course are the concern of policy evaluators. This article attempts to provide the first systematic cataloging of the emerging patterns of policy evaluation undertaken in different parts of the European Union. Theories of policy evaluation suggest that these eval…
Understanding the Paradoxes of Multilevel Governing: Climate Change Policy in the European Union
The European Union (EU) has sought to lead the world in the adoption of ambitious climate change mitigation targets and policies. In an attempt to characterize and broadly explain the resulting pattern of EU climate governance, scholars have employed the term “multi-level reinforcement.” This term does help to account for the paradoxical situation whereby the EU seeks to lead by example but is itself a relatively leaderless system of governance. …
Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground
To achieve the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal, fossil fuel production needs to undergo a managed decline. While some frontrunner countries have already begun to adopt policies and measures restricting fossil fuel supply, an outstanding question is how international cooperation in support of a managed decline of fossil fuel production could take shape. This article explores two possible pathways—one following a club model and the other more ak…
Designing Border Carbon Adjustments for Enhanced Climate Action
The Paris Agreement advances a heterogeneous approach to international climate cooperation. Such an approach may be undermined by carbon leakage—the displacement of emissions from states with more to less stringent climate policy constraints. Border carbon adjustments offer a promising response to leakage, but they also raise concerns about their compatibility with international trade law. This Article provides a comprehensive analysis of border …
Promises and risks of nonstate action in climate and sustainability governance
Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement stand as milestone diplomatic achievements. However, immense discrepancies between political commitments and governmental action remain. Combined national climate commitments fall far short of the Paris Agreement's 1.5/2°C targets. Similar political ambition gaps persist across various areas of sustainable development. Many therefore argue that actions by nonstate actors, such as businesses an…
Global Climate Change and the Fragmentation of International Law
Born into the wider body of international law, the climate regime needs to be understood in light of preexisting regimes. By drawing on the current debate about fragmentation in international law, this article highlights challenges for international lawyers and policymakers in navigating the relationship between the climate regime and the biodiversity regime, and the relationship between the climate regime and the multilateral trading system. Thi…
The politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform: Implications for climate change mitigation
The production and consumption of fossil fuels need to decrease significantly to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement's ambitious climate change goals. However, fossil fuels continue to receive significant amounts of government support. Although reforming fossil fuel subsidies can yield climate change mitigation benefits, the specific international and domestic political context and political economy of fossil fuel subsidies means that such reform is no…
Seizing the opportunity: Tackling fossil fuel subsidies under the UNFCCC
Analyses from international and nongovernmental organizations have pointed to the negative environmental, economic and social implications of the sizable subsidies handed out by governments for the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Given their relevance for achieving climate policy objectives, it is perhaps surprising that the climate regime established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) does not addre…
Mandatory due diligence laws and climate change litigation: Bridging the corporate climate accountability gap
The debate on corporate climate accountability has become increasingly prominent in recent years. Several countries, particularly in the Global North, have adopted mandatory human rights and/or environmental due diligence legislation. At the same time, judicial and quasi‐judicial proceedings are helping to shape the contours of corporate climate accountability. This article considers how litigation against corporations and due diligence legislati…
Earth system law: Exploring new frontiers in legal science
The Anthropocene requires of us to rethink global governance challenges and effective responses with a more holistic understanding of the earth system as a single intertwined social-ecological system. Law, in particular, will have to embrace such a holistic earth system perspective in order to deal more effectively with the Anthropocene's predicaments. While a growing number of scholars have tried to reimagine law and legal scholarship in a more …
Helping operationalise Article 2: A transdisciplinary methodological tool for evaluating when climate change is dangerous
Institutional complexity and private authority in global climate governance: The cases of climate engineering, Redd+ and short-lived climate pollutants
How and why do institutional architectures, and the roles of private institutions therein, differ across separate areas of climate governance? Here, institutional complexity is explained in terms of the problem-structural characteristics of an issue area and the associated demand for, and supply of, private authority. These characteristics can help explain the degree of centrality of intergovernmental institutions, as well as the distribution of …
Introduction: Exploring and explaining the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
Building a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty: Key elements
Amid growing recognition of the need for supply-side policies which set limits on the further expansion of fossil fuel extraction and use, in this article we consider possible elements of a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF NPT), behind which there is growing momentum. We elaborate on the possible institutional mechanisms, principles, procedures, and other elements of an FF NPT, by drawing on relevant precedents and parallels with other tr…
COP26 and the dynamics of anti‐fossil fuel norms
Notwithstanding the clear contribution of fossil fuel production and consumption to global greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels have remained largely outside the focus of the international regime established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 2021 Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26) marked an important change, however, with fossil fuels featuring prominently in the intergovernmental negotiations as well as o…
Institutional Interactions at the Crossroads of Trade and Environment: The Dominance of Liberal Environmentalism
This article argues that institutional interactions that cut across the domains of trade and environment are embedded in overarching norms that shape their evolution and impact. In making this argument, it analyzes three cases of such interactions within the climate change and biosafety regime complexes: those relating to trade-related climate policies and measures, forest carbon sinks, and trade in genetically modified organisms. The analysis hi…
Japan’s position in international climate policy: Navigating between Kyoto and the APP
The emergence of technology-oriented agreements such as the 2005 Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP) may have significant implications for the future of global climate governance, as these agreements could be perceived as an alternative for the existing international climate regime. It is, therefore, important to examine what has moved countries to be involved in these agreements alongside the UN climate regime. This a…
The environmental and economic effects of international cooperation on restricting fossil fuel supply
Achieving the Paris Agreement’s global temperature goal of keeping warming well below 2 °C and ideally 1.5 °C requires limiting fossil fuel production. In the United Nations climate change negotiations, this need is only beginning to be acknowledged. Nevertheless, as some countries have already adopted supply-side climate policies, initial cooperative activities have started, and calls grow for a fossil fuel treaty, questions arise about the pros…
The SDGs and fossil fuel subsidy reform
This short perspective asks what is the role-and added value-of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their associated institutional structures in the international governance of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform? It argues that whilst some progress has been made, notably through developing a methodology to define and measure fossil fuel subsidies, countries have only to a very limited extent followed up through indicator reporting an…
Great expectations? A reply to ‘Why do climate change negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems’ by Ulrich J. Frey and Jazmin Burgess
Climate change requires institutional responses commensurate with the size of the problem, which, as existing scientific evidence has made abundantly clear, is enormous.With dangerous climate change impacts becoming a reality across the globe, it is important to better understand the adequacy of prevailing institutional responses and, to the extent that such responses are deemed insufficient, offer suggestions for reform.The article by Frey and B…
Introduction to the special issue: Energy subsidies at the intersection of climate, energy, and trade governance
Opening the Black Box of Transparency: An Analytical Framework for Exploring Causal Pathways from Reporting and Review to State Behavior Change
Transparency arrangements, in the form of regular reporting by nations and a review of the reported information, have become a backbone of international governance. They are often expected to bring about increased ambition and improved implementation to fulfill the aims of the multilateral agreement in which they are embedded. However, little is still known about how these arrangements result in such effects. In this article, we review compliance…
Stokke, Olav Schram, Jon Hovi, and Geir Ulfstein, 2005. Implementing the Climate Regime: International Compliance . London: Earthscan
Helping operationalise Article 2: A transdisciplinary methodological tool for evaluating when climate change is dangerous
Global Climate Change and the Fragmentation of International Law
Born into the wider body of international law, the climate regime needs to be understood in light of preexisting regimes. By drawing on the current debate about fragmentation in international law, this article highlights challenges for international lawyers and policymakers in navigating the relationship between the climate regime and the biodiversity regime, and the relationship between the climate regime and the multilateral trading system. Thi…
Introduction: Exploring and explaining the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
Japan’s position in international climate policy: Navigating between Kyoto and the APP
The emergence of technology-oriented agreements such as the 2005 Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP) may have significant implications for the future of global climate governance, as these agreements could be perceived as an alternative for the existing international climate regime. It is, therefore, important to examine what has moved countries to be involved in these agreements alongside the UN climate regime. This a…
The Fragmentation of Global Governance Architectures: A Framework for Analysis
Most research on global governance has focused either on theoretical accounts of the overall phenomenon or on empirical studies of distinct institutions that serve to solve particular governance challenges. In this article we analyze instead “governance architectures,” defined as the overarching system of public and private institutions, principles, norms, regulations, decision-making procedures and organizations that are valid or active in a giv…
The evaluation of climate policy: Theory and emerging practice in Europe
Climate policy is a relatively young and dynamic area of public policy making. However, its development has attracted far more attention than the results it delivers in practice, which of course are the concern of policy evaluators. This article attempts to provide the first systematic cataloging of the emerging patterns of policy evaluation undertaken in different parts of the European Union. Theories of policy evaluation suggest that these eval…
Understanding the Paradoxes of Multilevel Governing: Climate Change Policy in the European Union
The European Union (EU) has sought to lead the world in the adoption of ambitious climate change mitigation targets and policies. In an attempt to characterize and broadly explain the resulting pattern of EU climate governance, scholars have employed the term “multi-level reinforcement.” This term does help to account for the paradoxical situation whereby the EU seeks to lead by example but is itself a relatively leaderless system of governance. …
Introduction: The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
This article introduces a special issue on the expanding research agenda on institutional fragmentation. The term refers to the growing diversity and challenges to coordination among private and public norms, treaties, and organizations that address a given issue area of international politics. International relations scholars increasingly address this phenomenon, framing it with alternative concepts like regime complexes or polycentricity. A con…
Climate governance at the crossroads: Experimenting with a global response after Kyoto
Institutional Interactions at the Crossroads of Trade and Environment: The Dominance of Liberal Environmentalism
This article argues that institutional interactions that cut across the domains of trade and environment are embedded in overarching norms that shape their evolution and impact. In making this argument, it analyzes three cases of such interactions within the climate change and biosafety regime complexes: those relating to trade-related climate policies and measures, forest carbon sinks, and trade in genetically modified organisms. The analysis hi…
Reinvigorating International Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Nonstate Action
As countries negotiate a new climate agreement for the United Nations climate conference in December 2015, a groundswell of climate actions is emerging as cities, regions, businesses and civil society groups act on mitigation and adaptation, independently, with each other and with national governments and international organizations. The Paris conference provides a historic opportunity to establish a framework to catalyse, support, and steer thes…
Restricted linking of emissions trading systems: Options, benefits, and challenges
Introduction to the special issue: Energy subsidies at the intersection of climate, energy, and trade governance
Seizing the opportunity: Tackling fossil fuel subsidies under the UNFCCC
Analyses from international and nongovernmental organizations have pointed to the negative environmental, economic and social implications of the sizable subsidies handed out by governments for the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Given their relevance for achieving climate policy objectives, it is perhaps surprising that the climate regime established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) does not addre…
Institutional complexity and private authority in global climate governance: The cases of climate engineering, Redd+ and short-lived climate pollutants
How and why do institutional architectures, and the roles of private institutions therein, differ across separate areas of climate governance? Here, institutional complexity is explained in terms of the problem-structural characteristics of an issue area and the associated demand for, and supply of, private authority. These characteristics can help explain the degree of centrality of intergovernmental institutions, as well as the distribution of …
Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action?
Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom famously described as 'polycentric'. This book brings together contributio…
Fossil fuel supply and climate policy: Exploring the road less taken
The politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform: Implications for climate change mitigation
The production and consumption of fossil fuels need to decrease significantly to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement's ambitious climate change goals. However, fossil fuels continue to receive significant amounts of government support. Although reforming fossil fuel subsidies can yield climate change mitigation benefits, the specific international and domestic political context and political economy of fossil fuel subsidies means that such reform is no…
Promises and risks of nonstate action in climate and sustainability governance
Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement stand as milestone diplomatic achievements. However, immense discrepancies between political commitments and governmental action remain. Combined national climate commitments fall far short of the Paris Agreement's 1.5/2°C targets. Similar political ambition gaps persist across various areas of sustainable development. Many therefore argue that actions by nonstate actors, such as businesses an…
Designing Border Carbon Adjustments for Enhanced Climate Action
The Paris Agreement advances a heterogeneous approach to international climate cooperation. Such an approach may be undermined by carbon leakage—the displacement of emissions from states with more to less stringent climate policy constraints. Border carbon adjustments offer a promising response to leakage, but they also raise concerns about their compatibility with international trade law. This Article provides a comprehensive analysis of border …
Transparency in multilateral climate politics: Furthering (or distracting from) accountability
This article analyzes the interplay between transparency and accountability in multilateral climate politics. The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for a “pledge‐and‐review” approach to collective climate action with an “enhanced transparency framework” as a key pillar of the Agreement. By making visible who is doing what, transparency is widely assumed to be vital to holding countries to account and building trust. We explore whether transparency is ge…
Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade: A Catalytic Framework
This paper examines the Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA) and discusses options to improve sub‐ and non‐state involvement in post‐2020 climate governance. A framework that stimulates sub‐ and non‐state action is a necessary complement to national governmental action, as the latter falls short of achieving low‐carbon and climate‐resilient development as envisaged in the Paris Agreement. Applying design principles for an ideal‐type orchestration …
Reforming fossil fuel subsidies requires a new approach to setting international commitments
Earth system law: Exploring new frontiers in legal science
The Anthropocene requires of us to rethink global governance challenges and effective responses with a more holistic understanding of the earth system as a single intertwined social-ecological system. Law, in particular, will have to embrace such a holistic earth system perspective in order to deal more effectively with the Anthropocene's predicaments. While a growing number of scholars have tried to reimagine law and legal scholarship in a more …
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