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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The European Climate Law: Strengthening EU Procedural Climate Governance?
Kulovesi, Kati; Oberthür, Sebastian; van Asselt, Harro; Savaresi, Annalisa. 2024. Journal of environmental law. [Epub ahead of print 12 Jan 2024]: 1-20 -
The environmental and economic effects of international cooperation on restricting fossil fuel supply
van Asselt, Harro; Fragkos, Panagiotis; Peterson, Lauri; Fragkiadakis, Kostas. 2024. International environmental agreements: politics law and economics. [Epub ahead of print 3 Feb 2024]: 1-26 -
Courts, climate litigation and the evolution of earth system law
Kotzé, Louis J; Mayer, Benoit; van Asselt, Harro; Setzer, Joana; Biermann, Frank; Celis, Nicolas; Adelman, Sam; Lewis, Bridget; Kennedy, Amanda; Arling, Helen; Peters, Birgit. 2023. Global policy. 2024; 15: 5-22 -
Leveraging the Global Stocktake for effective sectoral climate governance
van Asselt, Harro; Obergassel, Wolfgang; Hall, Catherine; Hermwille, Lukas; Oberthür, Sebastian; Otto, Simon; Sanz, María José; Xia-Bauer, Chun. 2023. PLOS climate. 2: -
Mandatory due diligence laws and climate change litigation: Bridging the corporate climate accountability gap?
Rajavuori, Mikko; Savaresi, Annalisa; van Asselt, Harro. 2023. Regulation and governance. 17: 944-953 -
Opening the Black Box of Transparency: An Analytical Framework for Exploring Causal Pathways from Reporting and Review to State Behavior Change
Harrould-Kolieb, Ellycia; van Asselt, Harro; Weikmans, Romain; Vihma, Antto. 2023. International studies review. 25: -
Supporting the Transition to Climate-Neutral Production: An Evaluation Under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Ismer, Roland; van Asselt, Harro; Haverkamp, Jennifer; Mehling, Michael; Neuhoff, Karsten; Pirlot, Alice. 2023. Journal of international economic law. 26: 216-232 -
The SDGs and fossil fuel subsidy reform
van Asselt, Harro. 2023. International environmental agreements: politics law and economics. 23: 191-197 -
The rise of international climate litigation
Mayer, Benoit; van Asselt, Harro. 2023. Review of European, comparative & international environmental law. 32: 175-184 -
Three decades of learning-by-doing: The evolving climate change mitigation policy of the European Union
Kulovesi, Kati; van Asselt, Harro. Teoksessa: Wieshaar, Stefan E; Kim; Eunjung; Tiche, Fitsum G(toim.) , 2023. Climate and Energy Law and Policy in the EU and East Asia: Transition and Policy Cooperation. s. 47-68. Edward Elgar