
HARRO VAN ASSELT
Professor
Professor of Climate Law and Policy
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.
Contact info
Organization
Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Law School
harro.vanasselt@uef.fi
Phone
+358 50 349 6934
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Teaching Activities
Harro van Asselt is Co-Director of the Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Policy and Law. He also coordinates the postgraduate course on Climate Change Law and Policy.
Research groups - UEF
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CCEEL - The Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law
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LYY Institute for Natural resources, environment and society
Links
Publications
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Article 13: Enhanced Transparency Framework for Action and Support. van Asselt, Harro; Kulovesi, Kati / The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A Commentary. 2021. 2021
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van Asselt, Harro. 2021. Breaking a Taboo: Fossil Fuels at COP26 EJIL:Talk! November 26, 2021: -. 2021
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Chan, Sander; Boran, Idil; van Asselt, Harro; Ellinger, Paula; Garcia, Miriam; Hale, Thomas; Hermwille, Lukas; Liti Mbeva, Kennedy; Mert, Aysem; Roger, Charles B.; Weinfurter, Amy; Widerberg, Oscar; Bynoe, Paulette; Chengo, Victoria; Cherkaoui, Ayman; Edwards, Todd; Gutschow, Malin; Hsu, Angel; Hultman, Nathan; Levai, David et al.. 2021. Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade: A Catalytic Framework Global policy 12 3: 245-259. 2021
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van Asselt, Harro; Skovgaard, Jakob. 2021. Reforming Fossil Fuel Subsidies Requires a New Approach to Setting International Commitments One earth 4 11: 1523-1526. 2021
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van Asselt, Harro; Pekkarinen, Veera. 2021. The Global Methane Pledge: a timely new step in global climate governance Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law blog (CCEEL Blog) 6.10.2021: -. 2021
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van Asselt, Harro; Parihar, Gita. 2021. Shell court ruling is a wake-up call for governments to end fossil fuel support Climate Home News 30.6.2021: -. 2021
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van Asselt, Harro; Kulovesi, Kati; Rajavuori, Mikko; Savaresi, Annalisa. 2021. Shell-shocked: a watershed moment for climate litigation against fossil fuel companies Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law blog (CCEEL Blog) 28.5.2021: -. 2021
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van Asselt, Harro. 2021. The New Climate Activism: NGO Authority and Participation in Climate Change Governance Transnational environmental law 10 2: 383 - 385. 2021
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van Asselt, Harro. 2021. Keeping fossil fuels in the ground: From slogan to legal obligation? Blogging for Sustainability May 31, 2021: -. 2021
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van Asselt, Harro. 2021. Governing fossil fuel production in the age of climate disruption: Towards an international law of 'leaving it in the ground' Earth system governance 9: 100118. 2021