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        Harro van Asselt

      • SEI Affiliated Researcher
      • Role(s): Affiliated with SEI Oxford
      • Expertise: Climate change law and policy
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      Dr. Harro van Asselt is an SEI Affiliated Researcher with SEI US Centre and professor of climate law and policy at the University of Eastern Finland.

      Harro joined SEI Headquarters in April 2012, as a NORD-STAR postdoctoral fellow, and moved to the Oxford Centre in early 2014.

      He has over 10 years’ research experience, focusing on various aspects of international and European climate change law and policy, including the review of implementation and compliance, the use of market-based mechanisms, climate-trade policy interactions, reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), and non-state actors.

      Before joining SEI, Harro was a Marie Curie fellow at the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford (2010-2011), and a researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the VU University Amsterdam (2002-2010). He was also a Visiting Associate at the Department of Value and Decision Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2007), a Visiting Research Scholar at the Dean Rusk Center of the University of Georgia School of Law, United States (2008), and a Visiting Researcher with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (2012).

      Harro has published numerous book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Climatic Change, Climate Policy, Energy Policy, Global Environmental Change, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Law, Nature Climate Change, New York University Journal of International Law & Politics, Policy Sciences, and Stanford Environmental Law Journal. He is author of The Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance (Edward Elgar, 2014), and co-editor of Climate Change Policy in the European Union (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is Editor of the journal Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Associate Editor of the Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR), and sits on the Editorial Board of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

      Harro holds a PhD (cum laude) from the VU University Amsterdam (2013), and an MA in law (specialization: international law) from VU University Amsterdam (2002).

      Publications by Harro van Asselt

      • The equity dimensions of anti-fossil fuel norms
      • How trade policy can support the climate agenda
      • Swedish policy positions and perspectives on CBAM
      • The Production Gap Report 2021
      • The international governance of fossil fuel subsidies as testing ground for the fragmentation and deformalisation of international law?
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      Perspectives by Harro van Asselt

      • COP27 flinched on phasing out 'all fossil fuels'. What’s next for the fight to keep them in the ground?
      • COP24 recap: what did it deliver?
      • Wanted: public participants to make the Paris Agreement work
      • Five ways the Paris Agreement can address oversupply of fossil fuels
      • Are trade agreements good or bad for the climate?
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      Featured stories with Harro van Asselt

      • Q&A: Swedish perspectives on EU proposal for Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
      • Cómo los subsidios a los combustibles fósiles bloquean los objetivos del Acuerdo de París
      • How fossil fuel subsidies impede Paris Agreement goals
      • Beat trade protectionism and carbon emissions in a single stroke
      • Ratcheting up ambition: COP23 sets the stage for the 2018 Facilitative Dialogue
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      Projects and tools with Harro van Asselt

      • Green Trade Network
      • Transnational adaptation governance
      • Fossil fuel production: ending subsidies and enacting constraints
      • SEI Initiative on Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
      • CARISMA - Coordination and Assessment of Research and Innovation in Support of climate Mitigation Actions
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