Yulia Yamineva

My primary area of expertise is climate law and governance, including:

• International climate law and governance;
• Climate finance;
• Climate mitigation, with a focus on short-lived climate pollutants;
• Air pollution;
• Climate tipping points;
• Science-policy interface, esp. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
• Climate laws and policies in national and regional contexts: EU, Arctic, Russia, China.

My approach to research is interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of climate and environmental law, policy and governance, and often in close collaboration with climate modelers and atmospheric scientists. My work has been published in leading interdisciplinary and disciplinary journals including Nature Climate Change, Earth Systems Governance, Transnational Environmental Law, and Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL). I have (co-)edited several special issues, for instance on air pollution law in RECIEL, and a book volume on the law and governance of reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants, published by Brill in 2023.  Additionally, I have contributed to high-profile international reports, most recently the 2023 Global Tipping Points report, and, for over 15 years, participated in UN climate negotiations in various roles.

At the UEF Law School, I serve as Co-Director of the Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Policy and Law, overseeing its climate law specialisation, as well as the Director of the UEF-UNEP Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements.

My professional experience includes supporting intergovernmental negotiations on climate finance at the UN Convention on Climate Change Secretariat and contributing to the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin. I hold PhD in International Studies and MPhil in Environmental Policy, both from the University of Cambridge. I am proud of my Bashkort heritage: the Bashkort people are an ethnic group indigenous to Southern Urals in Russia.

Current projects:

Principal investigator of the project consortium ‘ClimAirPathways: Science-based legal pathways to reduce black carbon emissions in the EU and China: Towards integrated climate – air quality approaches’ (Research Council of Finland, 2023-2027)

Co-PI, climate law package, Atmosphere and Climate Competence Centre (Research Council of Finland flagship, 2020-2028)

Current PhD students:

1. Raihanatul Jannat “Building climate-resilient development of women in Bangladesh through adaptation law” (2020)
2. Saga Eriksson ‘EU sustainable finance legislation: Towards creation of green markets and agency?’ (2022)
3. Moritz Petersmann ‘Fit for governing modern wicked problems? International science-policy interfaces under scrutiny’ (2022)
4. Camille Bertaux ‘WHO guidelines & environmental law in a moving context – from mere reference to conclusive influence?’, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Centre for Environmental Law (Member of the supervisory committee with Prof Misonne and Prof Peeters; 2022)
5. Katri Varis ‘Role of scientific advisory bodies in EU climate law and policy’ (2023)
6. Niklas Löther ‘From fragmentation to integration in legal responses to climate change and air pollution: A transnational investigation of pathways and obstacles to integrated environmental lawmaking in the European Union’ (2023; ClimAirPathways project)
7. Eveliina Laine ‘Climate adaptation finance: From international rules to impact’ (2024)