Jolene Lin

Jolene is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in global environmental law and policy. Her most recent research focuses on climate change law as a matter of public international and domestic law.

Jolene teaches International Environmental Law and will launch a new course on Comparative Environmental Law in 2011. She is an associate member of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) and a Legal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, McGill Faculty of Law. Jolene graduated from the London School of Economics and New York University School of Law, and is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. A list of Jolene's publications is available here.

 Read Jolene's working paper, The Sustainability of Biofuels: Limits of the Meta-Standard Approach.

Adam Bumpus

Adam is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Development at ISIS, a sustainability and social innovation research centre at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada. Adam also holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. At undergrad Adam completed a Bachelor of Science in Ecology, and then worked for three years on climate change and media affairs in London while he finished his Master of Arts in Environment, Politics and Globalization at the University of London, King’s College.

In 2009 Adam completed his doctorate on the social and environmental implications of carbon offsets at the Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute. He also spent time as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC, and is the author of a number of journal and business articles on carbon and development. Adam’s current focus is on the emerging carbon governance systems in North America and the relationships between international carbon finance, development and livelihoods.

Adam is the author of a GCD working paper: The matter of carbon: understanding the materiality of tCO2e in carbon offsets. See also Adam's recent work on the use of climate finance in clean energy programs: Win-win scenarios at the climate-development interface: challenges and opportunities for cookstove replacement programs through carbon finance

Emma Lund (née Paulsson)

Emma Lund is a postgraduate student in the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden, where she is focusing on interests in climate policy. Emma’s thesis explores the various roles assumed by private companies under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). 

The CDM is expected to fulfil a double goal: to reduce the cost to developed countries of meeting emission reduction targets and helping developing countries to achieve sustainable development. Emma’s work recognises the very active participation of private companies in shaping the CDM process, by both implementing and supervising CDM projects. This focus provides the empirical basis for further explorations of the meaning of 'governance beyond the state'. 

Read Emma’s working paper for the Governance of Clean Development project (co-authored with Teresia Rindefjäll and Johannes Stripple): Wine, Fruit and Emission Reductions: CDM as Development Strategy in Chile (2010). A list of Emma’s other publications can be found on her Lund University website.

Arunabha Ghosh

Arunabha Ghosh is Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton; Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford; and Faculty Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford.

Arunabha currently works on the governance of the climate change regime. He has written about and continues to work on technology development and transfer, multilateral and public-private financing arrangements, linkages between the trade and climate regimes, global energy governance, and concerns over monitoring and compliance. Further, he has been working on WTO and trade governance for several years. Arunabha is also working on a book project on global governance to analyse the shifts of power to emerging economies and the strategies employed by developing countries in international regimes.  

Arunabha was previously Policy Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme in New York and co-author of three Human Development Reports, and has worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He has led research on transboundary water basins, intellectual property and the rights of indigenous people, violent conflict and extremist movements, and has undertaken/advised research projects on aid, financial crises and trade negotiations for DFID (UK), IDRC (Canada), and the Commonwealth Secretariat. His advocacy efforts for human development span a documentary on the water crisis set out of Africa, presentations to the President of India, the Indian Parliament and other legislatures, public lectures in several countries, and regular articles in the print media. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.  

Arunabha has a D.Phil. and M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford as the Marvin Bower Scholar. He speaks Bengali, English, Hindi and basic Spanish.

Arunabha's latest publications and op-eds are available to view online

 

Wei Shen

 Wei Shen is undertaking postgraduate study at UEA on renewable energy and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in China. His research explores the micro-politics of wind energy projects under the CDM, providing an explanatory account of the dynamic relationships among state, market and social actors involved in day-to-day CDM practices. By investigating the dynamic processes of governance, Wei’s work also seeks to understand how renewable energy CDM projects in general (and wind farms in particular) can contribute to sustainable and clean development.

He has over 10 years of experience as a credit risk analyst on infrastructure and energy projects in developing countries, through which he has worked with major Chinese financial institutions and energy utilities. His areas of expertise include energy project promotion and financing; political risks for developing countries; national environmental and energy policy; and the micro-politics of CDM governance.

Wei holds a Bachelors degree in English Language from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Master of Arts in International Management from Queen Mary, University of London. He is fluent in Chinese mandarin.

   

Bo Wang

Bo is a Lecturer in International Relations and Deputy Chair of the Department of International Politics at the University of Business and Economics in Beijing (UIBE). At UIBE, he teaches courses in international relations, American politics and foreign policy, and political theory in China. Bo's research has focused on political and institutional dimensions of climate change and energy policy. Bo was conducting comparative studies of international climate change policies at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School of Government 2008 - 2009. Bo completed his PhD in International Relations, with a focus on Sino-U.S. relations, from the China Foreign Affairs University. His dissertation concentrated on U.S. oil policy. 

His climate and energy-related publications have included: 'A rational attitude toward Sino-US cooperation on energy and climate change', China Energy News, Vol. 24 (2009); 'Exploring China's climate change policy from both international and domestic perspectives', American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2009); 'Understanding China's climate change policy' in Competition and Partnership Issues of Economic and Trade Relations Between China and the EU (University of International Business and Economic Press, 2008); 'China's environmental diplomacy', American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vo. 15, No. 1 (2008); American Oil Policy (World Affairs Press, 2008, in Chinese).

Read Bo's working paper: Can the CDM bring technology transfer to developing countries? An empirical study of technology transfer in China's CDM projects in The Governance of Clean Development Working Paper Series. 

 

Tony Colman

Tony Colman is a Post Graduate Researcher in the School of International Development at UEA and is working towards his PhD in the field of Water and Energy Governance in Southern Africa, with a focus on Botswana. He recently completed a Masters in Globalisation and International Development at UEA and his dissertation concentrated on clean energy transitions in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Tony has a Masters (Hons) in Historical Tripos from Cambridge University and worked as a post graduate researcher at the London School of Economics (1966-7) under Professor Bauer. Since then, Tony has worked in the both the corporate sector and subsequently in politics. In 1990, he became Leader of LB Merton, represented UK Local Government at UN conferences during the 1990s and chaired the London A21.

He was MP for Putney between 1997 and 2005, and a member of the UK Parliament International Development Committee, leading on the Parliamentary Network of the World Bank and the international committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Tony has been Non-Executive Director since 2005 of Africa Practice Ltd., a consultancy advising African governments and companies and he serves as a Councillor on the World Future Council. More recently, Tony has been a Trustee of Chatham House and the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and is currently on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and is Chair of the One World Trust.