
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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Article 13: Enhanced Transparency Framework for Action and Support
van Asselt, Harro; Kulovesi, Kati / The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A Commentary. 2021. 2021 -
Climate Ambition and Sustainable Development for a New Decade: A Catalytic Framework
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.. Global policy 12 3: 245-259. 2021 -
Climate neutral production, free allocation of allowances under emissions trading systems, and the WTO: How to secure compatibility with the ASCM
Ismer, Roland; van Asselt, Harro; Haverkamp, Jennifer; Mehling, Michael; Neuhoff, Karsten; Pirlot, Alice. 2021 2021 -
Developing a Transparency Arrangement for Intergovernmental Cooperation on Fossil Fuel Production
van Asselt, Harro; Harrould-Kolieb, Ellycia. 2021 2021 -
Maximising the Impact of the Global Stocktake: Options for Design and Implementation
Beuermann, Christiane; Obergassel, Wolfgang; van Asselt, Harro; Häntzschel, Maximilian; Petersmann, Moritz. 2021 2021 -
Planetary Boundaries and Regime Interaction in International Law
Piselli, Dario; van Asselt, Harro / Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries. 2021. 2021 -
Beyond COP26: Time for an Advisory Opinion on Climate Change?
Savaresi, Annalisa; Kulovesi, Kati; van Asselt, Harro. EJIL:Talk! December 17, 2021: -. 2021 -
A binding global agreement to address the life cycle of plastics
Simon, Nils; Raubenheimer, Karen; Urho, Niko; Unger, Sebastian; Azoulay, David; Farrelly, Trisia; Sousa, Joao; van Asselt, Harro; Carlini, Giulia; Sekomo, Christian; Schulte, Maro Luisa; Busch, Per-Olof; Wienrich, Nicole; Weiand, Laura. Science 373 6550: 43-47. 2021 -
The International Governance of Fossil Fuel Subsidies as Testing Ground for the Fragmentation and Deformalisation of International Law?
van Asselt, Harro; Verkuijl, Cleo / A Multifaceted Approach to Trade Liberalisation and Investment Protection in the Energy Sector. 2021. 2021 -
The Production Gap: Governments: planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits
Erickson, Peter; Achakulwisut, Ploy; Guivarch, Celine; Mathur, Ritu; Pye, Steve; Schaeffer, Roberto; Bushan, Chandra; Defour, Lucile; Fischer, Lisa; Gençsü, Ipek; Heller, Patrick; Hocquet, Robin; Jones, Natalie; Manley, David; Muñoz Cabré, Miquel; Muttitt, Greg; Picciariello, Angela; Luma; Ramos; Roberts, Leo; Tucker, Bronwen et al [incl. van Asselt, Harro]. 2021 2021