New researcher at CLIMA - Wesley Maraire
Wesley Maraire is a sociolegal researcher with interdisciplinary training in law, sociology, and political science. His work spans access to justice, climate governance, and decolonial legal theory. He is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the CLIMA, University of Copenhagen.
His project, PluriCarb, examines how regulatory fragmentation and definitional inconsistency affect the legitimacy and effectiveness of cross-border carbon capture and storage (CCS) governance in the EU/EEA, with a focus on the North Sea. Drawing on legal pluralism and regulatory governance theory, the project analyses how conflicting definitions and overlapping mandates across EU climate instruments distribute authority across governance levels, and develops policy recommendations for regulators, ministries, and treaty bodies.
Prior to CLIMA, Wesley served as Research Project Manager and Communications Lead on the Habitable Air project at the University of Bergen, a multi-country study on urban inequality and climate change. He remains affiliated with the Centre on Law and Social Transformation at the Chr. Michelsen Institute / University of Bergen. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cape Town, where his doctoral research developed a normative framework for integrating traditional dispute resolution mechanisms.