Collaborations
Earth Commission
Within the context of the Earth Commission set up by Future Earth and the Global Commons Alliance, the PI – Joyeeta Gupta – who co-chairs the commission is working on (a) theorizing Earth system justice; (b) safe and just boundaries including for climate change; (c) how meeting access to water, food, energy, housing and infrastructure leads to crossing boundaries unless there is a just transformation; and (d) just transformations. We use our work within CLIFF to enrich the work of the Earth Commission and the work of the Earth Commission to enrich CLIFF.
Cambridge Fossil-free Corporate Bond Index
A project at Cambridge University is working on a fossil-free Corporate Bond Index. The PI is an advisor of this project and we hope it will lead to mutual learning as CLIFF is also working on a stranded asset index.
Transitional Waters
The Port of Amsterdam and the Energy Transition. We have written a small project focusing on the fossil fuel use in the port of Amsterdam which is being undertaken by our students. This enables us to get a grip on the local dimensions of the CLIFF project. We have also undertaken a field trip to see the extent of fossil fuel dependence in the port.
Global Stocktake Equity Working Group
This global collaboration between equity and climate scholars discusses justice issues with respect to mitigation and adaptation. We present our papers to this working group and learn from their papers.
There is a global collaboration between researchers and activists promoting a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. We engage with them in a mutually beneficial manner.
Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
There is a global collaboration between researchers and activists promoting a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. We engage with them in a mutually beneficial manner.
SUS POL (Supply-Side Policies for Fossil Fuels)
Professor Peter Newell has won a large grant for research on fossil fuels (UKRI Frontier Grant, formerly ERC Advanced Grant). We are collaborating with him. One of our first concrete actions is to develop a joint special issue on supply-side actions on fossil fuels.
UNEP-GEO-Multidisciplinary Expert Scientific Advisory Group
The PI is a member of this expert group and we are providing them with information from our project.
FRAME
We have a small project on justice and equality in research with the National Science Foundation where we bring our justice research results to other justice scholars to try and improve our understanding of justice.
Lauren Gifford
Supply side fossil fuel options
PhD Projects
Two PhD projects contribute to a mutual understanding of climate related issues. Jiesper Tristan is working on a PhD project on IPCC’s emission scenarios and will defend at Utrecht University. Ivan Mugga is working on a PhD project on Uganda’s climate policy and will defend at the Law Faculty at the University of Amsterdam.
Opal Morales Asencio is currently working on two projects related to her PhD research:
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- Public-Private Partnership Water Platform for Ukraine: This Platform is initiated and coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and the Netherlands Water Partnership. In this project, Opal’s contribution is to provide legal advice to public and private entities working on the reconstruction of the Ukrainian water system in an environmentally responsible and sustainable way.
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) enforcement: The EU requires large listed companies to report on risks and opportunities related to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues and, in particular, on the impact of their activities on people and the environment. Companies are therefore required to report their full 1-3 emissions footprint. In this project, Opal advises the board of a European institution that issues microcredits in countries in the global south on how to implement the regulation and get investors to allocate their funds to environmentally friendly business activities.
- In line with her PhD research and the projects mentioned above, this August at the IUCN AEL Colloquium 2023, Opal will present the findings of her paper “A future-proofed Environmental Law from a Corporate Law Perspective”. In this paper she studies how to formulate pragmatic, accessible and solid impact incentives for corporations to achieve environmental compliance.
About
The CLIFF project was financed by the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Grant agreement: No. 101020082
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