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        Cleo Verkuijl

        Research Fellow

      • Expertise: Climate change Law and Policy
      • cleo.verkuijl@sei.org
      • @cleoverk
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      Cleo Verkuijl is an SEI Research Fellow based in Oxford, UK.  Her research focuses on legal and political dimensions of UN sustainable development and climate policy, just and healthy dietary transitions, and animal welfare.

      Cleo was a coordinating lead author of the first two Production Gap Reports . Produced by leading research organizations and the UN, this is the first assessment of the gap between the targets of the Paris Agreement and countries’ planned production of coal, oil, and gas.

      A Team Leader and Writer for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin since 2015, Cleo has reported on UN processes on climate, ozone, and the Sustainable Development Goals, among others. She has taught environmental law and policy as an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, and as a tutor for the University of Edinburgh.

      Cleo has also worked for the UN Environment Programme in Brussels and was a policy officer with the NGO network Climate Action Network International during the Paris climate negotiations.

      Cleo holds an LL.M. in Global Environment and Climate Law from the University of Edinburgh.

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      Publications by Cleo Verkuijl

      • Mainstreaming animal welfare in sustainable development: a policy agenda
      • Updated analysis of NDCs and LT-LEDS shows growing attention to fossil fuels under the UNFCCC
      • The Production Gap Report 2021
      • The international governance of fossil fuel subsidies as testing ground for the fragmentation and deformalisation of international law?
      • Nationally Determined Contributions as instruments for promoting national development agendas? An analysis of small island developing states (SIDS)
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      Perspectives by Cleo Verkuijl

      • Eight takeaways from the IPCC report on climate mitigation
      • Animal welfare matters for sustainable development
      • COP26's "plant-forward" menu should be the starting shot for a protein transformation
      • Time to lead: priorities for the G20 on the eve of COP26
      • The right to food: a global cry for urgent action towards sustainable food systems
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      Featured stories with Cleo Verkuijl

      • COP26: What it delivered and what's next
      • Seven priorities for COP26
      • The Paris Agreement five years on
      • Nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
      • How finance works towards - or against - sustainable development
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      Projects and tools with Cleo Verkuijl

      • Energy Policy Tracker
      • Iniciativa SEI sobre Carbon Lock-In o bloqueo de carbono
      • SEI Initiative on Carbon Lock-In
      • SEI Initiative on Governing Bioeconomy Pathways
      • weADAPT
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