Climate Briefs
The climate briefs feature working papers and other research outputs on the topic of climate and sustainability.

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Alberto Barrio Fernandez and Beatriz Martinez Romera, Enhancing the Resilience of the EU Social Contract against Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss (2026, submitted in February, pending approval by the European Commission)
- Hannah Mosmans, Stella Ebbersmeyer, Jolien Kruit, Beatriz Martinez Romera, Nishatabbas Rehmatulla and Marie Fricaudet, Climate Risks in Shipping (2026)
- Daniel Bodansky and Beatriz Martinez Romera, Editors - The Future of a Melting Arctic: Challenges for International Law (2026)
- Daniel Bodansky and Beatriz Martinez Romera, Arctic Warming and International Law (2026)
- Stella Ebbersmeyer and Beatriz Martinez Romera, Environmental Challenges of Increasing Arctic Cruise Ship Tourism (2026)
- Beatriz Martinez Romera, David Freestone and Tara Davenport, Legal Aspects of the Decarbonization of Shipping and Alternative Fuels (2026)
- Alberto Barrio Fernandez and Beatriz Martinez Romera, Welfare States and the Green Transition: Towards an EU Eco-Social Contract (2026)
- A. Stella Ebbersmeyer, Mitigating Arctic Maritime Black Carbon Emissions Through Fuel-Based Regulation: A Critical Appraisal (2026)
- Beatriz Martinez Romera, Regulating International Maritime Transport Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Time: Progress and Challenges (2025)
- Alberto Barrio Fernandez and Beatriz Martinez Romera, Disruptors of the EU Social Contract Resulting from Climate Change Impacts, Climate-Related Policies, and Biodiversity Loss (2025, submitted in November, pending approval by the European Commission)
- Sebastiano Gianino, IL DIRITTO MARITTIMO (2025)
- Beatriz Martinez Romera and Christiaan De Beukelaer, What are the procedural options for the Net-Zero Framework? (2025)
- Beatriz Martinez Romera, Linnéa Nordlander, Alessandro Monti and Jens Elo Rytter, Human Rights and Investment Law for Climate Change (2025)
- Beatriz Martinez Romera, Editorial - Climate Law (2025)
- Viktor Weber, The Challenges of Switching ‘Sail-Fast-then-Wait’ to ‘Sail-Slow-and-Save’ in the Decarbonization of Voyage-chartered Bulk Shipping (2025)
- Sebastiano Gianino and Ludovic Laffineur, Equity in Motion: Revenue Disbursement for a Just and Equitable Maritime Transition Under the IMO´S Net-Zero Framework (2025)
- Linnéa Nordlander, Constitutional boundaries after Verein KlimaSeniorinnen: Lessons on domestic rights-based climate change litigation from the Swedish Supreme Court's Aurora Judgment (2025)
- A. Stella Ebbersmeyer, Transparency and Non-State Actors in the Regulation of Black Carbon Emissions from Arctic Shipping (2025)
- Meng Zhang, Governance Innovation or Imagination? Three Storylines of Navigating the EU’s Leading Role in Green Hydrogen Deployment in a Polarized World (2025)
- Pablo Pellon Ricciardi, Lliuya v. rwe: A Leap Forward for Private Climate Litigation? (2025)
- International Shipping Industry Consultation, Strengthening the Stewardship of a Biologically and Economically Important High Seas Area – The Sargasso Sea (2025)
- Federica Catonini, Johanna Sophie Buerkert and Kristian Søby Kristensen, Arctic Geoengineering Between Governance and Science: A Structured Literature Review of the Arctic Geoengineering Discourse (2025)
- Carina Risvig Hamer, Rasmus Horskjær Nielsen and Torkil Schrøder-Hansen, EU Public Procurement anno 2025 - Are the rules fit for purpose? (2025)
- Dominioni, G., and Martinez Romera, B., The 2023 IMO Greenhouse Gas Strategy: Considerations of Equity. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2025)
- CIL-Clima Conference Report, The Decarbonization of Shipping and Alternative Fuels (2025)
- International Shipping Industry Consultation, Strengthening the Stewardship of a Biologically and Economically Important High Seas Area – The Sargasso Sea (2024)
- Youna LBL Lyons, David Santillo and Federica Catonini, Legitimate Scientific Research: Objective Scientific Assessment of Marine Geoengineering Activities under the London Convention and London Protocol (2024)
- Alberto Barrio and Beatriz Martinez Romera, Integración de objetivos sociales y medioambientales en las políticas de transición justa (2024)
- Corina Heri, Linnéa Nordlander and Annalisa Savaresi, Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe: Why Does it Matter? (2024).
- Johanna Bürkert, The time for ambitious action is now: Science-based recommendations for plastic chemicals to inform an effective global plastic treaty. (2024)
- Jens Elo Rytter and Linnéa Nordlander, Ny klimadom er en milepæl – men den slår også fast, at ingen domstol kan redde klimaet (2024).
- Annalisa Savaresi, Linnéa Nordlander and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Climate Change Litigation before the European Court of Human Rights: A New Dawn (2024).
- Linnéa Nordlander, What’s in a Right? Concretizing States’ Climate Change Mitigation Obligations under Human Rights Law (2024).
- Jakob Dreyer, Ditte Maria Brasso Sørensen and Linnéa Nordlander, Danmarks formandskab er EU’s grønne skæbnestund (2024).
- Alessandro Monti, The FET Standard between Treaty Reform and ISDS Practice: An Analysis of the Modernized ECT, 2024
- Alessandro Monti, Different Paths to the Same Goal? The Potential of BITs and FTAs for Achieving Climate Objectives, 2024
- Stella Ebbersmeyer, Did you know that a lack of Arctic shipping regulation has detrimental environmental effects?, 2024
- Linnéa Nordlander, Annalisa Savaresi and Corina Heri, Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe: Why it matters (2024)
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Johanna Bürkert, Federica Catonini and others, Legally protect marine food web’s lower echelons, 2023
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Johanna Buerkert, “Did you know there’s a (relatively new) treaty for the Central Arctic Ocean?”, 2023
- Alessandro Monti and Stella Ebbersmeyer, Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 56): Review, 2022
- Alessandro Monti and Linnéa Nordlander: “Planning and running a project-based intensive course: Human Rights and Economic Law for the Green Transition”, pedagogical development project presented at the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Programme on Wednesday, 2022
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Johanna Sophie Buerkert, Nexusing socio-ecological resilience and law: Science-legal interfaces in the CAO Fisheries Agreement, 2022
- Linnéa Nordlander and Alessandro Monti, A new variety of rights-based climate litigation: a challenge against the Energy Charter Treaty before the European Court of Human Rights, 2022
- Linnéa Nordlander, Loss and damage from climate change: Climate vulnerable groups in Arctic States (working paper), 2021
- Alessandro Monti and Linnéa Nordlander, OECD Public consultation on investment treaties and climate change, 2022
- Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer, The regulation of shipping induced climate change in the Arctic: the role of actors, 2022
- Justine Bendel, Conspicuous by Absence: Why Did the DRC Receive No Compensation for Deforestation at the ICJ?, 2022
- Linnéa Nordlander, Culture- vs Health-focused Arguments in Climate Change Litigation: Any Implications for Rights-based Litigation in Europe?
Researchers
| Name | Title | |
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| Catonini, Federica | PhD Fellow |
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| Dahl, Anya Kristina Cheng | PhD Fellow |
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| Ebbersmeyer, Ana Stella | Postdoc |
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| Gianino, Sebastiano | PhD Fellow |
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| Hamer, Carina Risvig | Professor |
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| Martinez Romera, Beatriz | Head of Centre, Associate Professor |
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| Weber, Viktor | Assistant Professor |
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| Zhang, Meng | Postdoc |
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Contact
Beatriz Martinez Romera
Associate Professor on Environmental and Climate Change Law
Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance, Faculty of Law
Phone: +45 29700410
beatriz.martinez.romera@jur.ku.dk