Dr. Sander Chan is an Associate Professor in Global Climate Governance at Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, and an associated researcher with the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). He studies global environmental governance and develops approaches to assess climate and sustainability action beyond national governments, especially voluntary climate action and cooperative initiatives, with a focus on questions of integrity, accountability, effectiveness, and equity.
Key publications (selected)
- Hagenström, P., Pettorelli, N., Boran, I., et al., & Chan, S. (2025). From pledges to places: action agendas need spatial data to integrate climate and biodiversity action. npj Climate Action. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-025-00307-5
- Chan, S., Falkner, R., Goldberg, M., & van Asselt, H. (2018). Effective and geographically balanced? Climate Policy, 18(1), 24–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2016.1248343
- Chan, S., Glass, L.-M., Hagenström, P., et al. (2025). Ten Years of Global Climate Action: Insights from the CoAct Database. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17582801
Projects
- ACHIEVE (Horizon Europe, 2024–2027): https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/achieving-high-integrity-voluntary-climate-action-achieve | https://achieveproject.eu
- BioCAM4 (2025–2027): https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/biodiversity-integration-in-climate-adaptation-mitigation
- CAMDA (2017–2027): https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/climate-action-methodology-data-and-analysis-camda
- CoAct Database: https://globaldatalab.org/c-cid/about/