
Harro van Asselt
Professor
Professor of Climate Law and Policy
Law School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
[email protected] | +358 50 349 6934
Harro van Asselt, PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, cum laude), is Professor of Climate Law and Policy with the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School, Visiting Research Fellow with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, and Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute. He has 20 years of research experience, and is an expert on interactions between international climate change governance and other fields of international governance. Before joining UEF, Harro worked at the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford, and the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of The Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance (Edward Elgar, 2014), co-editor of Governing Climate Change and The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (both Cambridge University Press, 2018), and he has more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed academic journals and books. He is Editor of the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), and sits on the Editorial Board of Carbon & Climate Law Review, Earth System Governance, Global Environmental Politics, and International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.
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Decarbonising the land transport sector: Pathways towards enhanced global governance
Hall, Catherine; van Asselt, Harro. 2025. Transportation research part d: transport and environment. 140: A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Extending the Sustainable Development Goals to 2050 — a road map
Fuso Nerini, Francesco; Mazzucato, Mariana; Rockström, Johan; van Asselt, Harro; Hall, Jim W; Matos, Stelvia; Persson, Åsa; Sovacool, Benjamin; Vinuesa, Ricardo; Sachs, Jeffrey. 2024. Nature. 630: 555-558 B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change, by Simon Sharpe Cambridge University Press, 2023, 344 pp, £20 hb ISBN 9781009326490
van Asselt, Harro. 2024. Transnational environmental law. 13: 223-226 B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
Fuelling injustice? Safeguarding equity in anti-fossil fuel norms
Nazareth, Anisha; Shawoo, Zoha; Verkuijl, Cleo; van Asselt, Harro. 2024. Global policy. 15: 979-988 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Revitalizing international fossil fuel subsidy phase-out commitments through roadmaps, closing loopholes, and support
Skovgaard, Jakob; van Asselt, Harro; Beaton, Christopher; Drake, Evan; Jones, Natalie; Mcculloch, Neil; Steenblik, Ronald; Wooders, Peter. 2024. npj climate action. 3: B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
Shell’s legal victory is disappointing – but this is not the end for corporate climate litigation
van Asselt, Harro; Savaresi, Annalisa. 2024. The Conversation. : . E1 Popularised article, newspaper article -
The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law
Bodansky, Daniel; van Asselt, Harro. 2024. . second edition. Oxford University Press C1 Book -
The Complexity of Transnational Environmental Law
Etty, Thijs; van Zeben, Josephine; van Asselt, Harro; Duvic-Paoli, Leslie-Anne; Jodoin, Sébastien; Reins, Leonie. 2024. Transnational environmental law. 13: 235-242 B1 Non-refereed journal articles -
The European Climate Law: Strengthening EU Procedural Climate Governance?
Kulovesi, Kati; Oberthür, Sebastian; van Asselt, Harro; Savaresi, Annalisa. 2024. Journal of environmental law. 36: 23-42 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
The Evaluation of Polycentric Climate Governance, by Jonas J. Schoenefeld Cambridge University Press, 2023, 350 pp, £105 hb, US$ 135 ebk ISBN 9781316511244 hb, 9781009059381 ebk
van Asselt, Harro. 2024. Transnational environmental law. 13: 453-455 B1 Non-refereed journal articles