I am a research fellow at Utrecht University, with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and a Fulbright Schuman scholarships working on climate justice challenges to achieve the Paris Agreement. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne titled “Climate justice: can we agree to disagree? Operationalising competing equity principles to mitigate global warming“, on quantifying fair and ambitious emissions targets for countries.
Specifically, I develop frameworks to advance the conceptual understanding of the role of various climate actors and assess the fairness and ambition of their pledges. This work is directly informing country-delegations at COPs, judges in climate litigation cases, and governmental objectives.
My articles published in high-impact journals (full list in the publication page) were used:
– to set governmental targets: the UK’s 2030 and 2050 net-zero targets through the Committee on Climate Change’s recommendations (also existing for the 2035 here), and to inform the subnational targets including the State of Victoria for 2030. More in the legislation impact page.
– to inform international negotiations with the interactive website Paris-Equity-Check.org and FairShareNow.org to review the ambition of countries’ emissions targets. More on the negotiations impact page.
– to inform court-cases, including Urgenda and cases before the European Court of Human Rights, on what climate objectives align with the Paris Agreement and national laws. More on the litigation impact page.
– to inform civil society and the public on the ambition of various actors in the transition.
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