The Climate Show

In this episode of The Climate Show, Viktor Weber interviews Harilaos Psaraftis, Professor Emeritus of the Danish Technical University. Viktor has asked Professor Psaraftis about the functioning of the market-based measures that are proposed at the International Maritime Organization for the decarbonization of the shipping industry. If you are interested in learning more about this topic, please check Professor Psaraftis work here: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/persons/charilaos-psaraftis, and Dr Weber’s work on the InterAct project (International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change) here: https://jura.ku.dk/clima/research/interact/

In this episode, Dr Justine Bendel speaks to Professor Christina Voigt from the University of Oslo about the structure of the compliance mechanisms in the climate change regime. What are the roles of the newly established Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee in the architecture of the climate regime? If you are interested in learning more on this issue, please check Professor Voigt’s work: https://www.christinavoigt.net/ and Justine Bendel’s work: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/2648/justine-bendel

In this episode, Stella Ebbersmeyer speaks to Dr. Zhen Sun from the World Maritime University about the regulation of Arctic shipping in the context of climate change. They address topics such as the regulation of black carbon emissions, the Heavy Fuel Oil ban at the International Maritime Organization and non-state actors in international law-making. If you are interested in learning more about these topics, make sure to check out Dr. Zhen Sun’s work, Stella Ebbersmeyer’s work and the InterAct project at CLIMA (funded by the Carlsberg Foundation).

Brief description: In this episode, Justine Bendel speaks to Professor Christina Voigt from the University of Oslo about the regulation of forests as carbon sinks in the climate regime. What is the climate regime doing regarding deforestation, forest degradation, afforestation or reforestation? If you are interested in learning more on this issue, please check Professor Voigt’s work: https://www.christinavoigt.net/  and Justine Bendel’s work: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/2648/justine-bendel and the INTERFOR project at CLIMA (https://jura.ku.dk/clima/research/implementation-issues-in-global-environmental-law-the-case-of-forests-interfor/) funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (101028622)

In this episode, Viktor Weber speaks to Professor Michael Tsimplis from Hong Kong City University about shipping industry’s responses to the decarbonization challenge. If you are interested in learning more about this topic, please check Prof. Tsimplis’ work: https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/mikis-tsimplis(8418e5ab-a28f-49c6-8cb0-bd62443992e6).html and Dr. Weber’s work on the InterAct project (International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change) here: https://jura.ku.dk/clima/research/interact/

In this episode, we speak to Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, Founder and Executive Director of the Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS) and Alessandro Monti, Assistant Professor in Energy and Sustainability Law at the University of Copenhagen, about policies and initiatives to strengthen sustainability in international trade law. If you are interested in learning more about TESS, please click here: https://tessforum.org/. Alessandro Monti’s book “Promoting renewable Energy” is available here: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/promoting-renewable-energy-9781803920771.html

In this episode, we talk to Professor Harro van Asselt, leading expert on climate change law, about how international law can support the transition away from fossil fuels. If you are interested in learning more about the topic, see Harro’s book: The Politics of Fossil Fuels Subsidies and their Reform.

In this episode, we speak to Kees van der Geest, academic officer and Head of Environment and Migration section at the UN University, and Linnéa Nordlander, Assistant Professor of human rights and sustainability at the University of Copenhagen. For more on their work check out these links respectively: https://ehs.unu.edu/experts/researchexperts/kees-van-der-geest.html#profile and https://jura.ku.dk/cilg/staff/?pure=en/persons/609440

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Elena Cima, Lecturer at the University of Geneva, about the interaction between climate change and International Trade Law. If you are interested in her recent monograph ‘From Exception to Promotion’, you can find it here: https://brill.com/display/title/60539

In this episode, we talk to Professor Martha M. Roggenkamp, Professor Emerita of Energy Law at the University of Groningen, about how climate change is affecting the development of Energy Law, also in light of the 2022 energy crisis.For more on this topic see Prof. Roggenkamp’s work, here: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/energy-law-climate-change-and-the-environment-9781788119672.html