
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 over 15 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
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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
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Publications
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Mehling, Michael; van Asselt, Harro; Kulovesi, Kati; Morgera, Elisa. 2020. Teaching Climate Law: Trends, Methods and Outlook Journal of environmental law 32 3: 417-440. 2020
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The Siena Negotiations - A Multilateral Simulation Exercise: An international Legally Binding Instrument on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction. Honkonen, Tuula; Kulovesi, Kati; Morgera, Elisa; Recio, Maria Eugenia; van Asselt, Harro / International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2019. 2020. 2020
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Special Issue: Curbing Fossil Fuel Supply to Achieve Climate Goals. Piggot, Georgia; Verkuijl, Cleo; Lazarus, Michael; van Asselt, Harro. 2020 2020
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Fischer, Carolyn; Reins, Leonie; Burtraw, Dallas; Langlet, David; Löfgren, Åsa; Mehling, Michael; van Asselt, Harro; Weishaar, Stefan; Zetterberg, Lars; Kulovesi, Kati. 2020. The Legal and Economic Case for an Auction Reserve Price in the EU Emissions Trading System The columbia journal of european law 26 2: 1-34. 2020
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Erickson, P; van Asselt, H; Koplow, D; Lazarus, M; Newell, P; Oreskes, N; Supran, G. 2020. Why fossil fuel producer subsidies matter Nature 578 7793: E1-E4. 2020
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Fit for Purpose? Toward Trade Rules that Support Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and the Clean Energy Transition. van Asselt, Harro; Moerenhout, Tom. 2020 2020
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Skovgaard, Jakob; van Asselt, Harro. 2019. The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: climate change 10 4: e581. 2019
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Weikmans, Romain; van Asselt, Harro; Roberts, J Timmons. 2019. Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) Climate policy 2020; 20 4: 511-526. 2019
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Verkuijl, Cleo; van Asselt, Harro; Moerenhout, Tom; Casier, Liesbeth; Wooders, Peter. 2019. Tackling Fossil Fuel Subsidies through International Trade Agreements: Taking Stock, Looking Forward Virginia journal of international law 58 2: 309-368. 2019
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The Production Gap: The Discrepancy between Countries' Planned Fossil Fuel Production and Global Production Levels Consistent with Limiting Warming to 1.5°C or 2°C. van Asselt, Harro; Erickson, Peter; Gerasimchuk, Ivetta; Kartha, Sivan; Lazarus, Michael; Verkuijl, Cleo; Achakulwisut, Ploy; Erickson, Peter; Gençsü, Ipek; Chapman, Anna; Garg, Vibhuti; Gass, Philip; Lahn, Bård; Lu, Hongyou; Parra, Paola Yanguas; Roberts, Leo; Suharsono, Anissa; Christoff, Peter; Denniss, Richard; Green, Fergus et al.. 2019 2019