Martin Hession, currently chair of the UN Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board, has been appointed an Hon Senior Visiting Research Fellow to the Faculty for three years starting this month. Martin is a barrister, a former academic at Imperial College, and has been a senior official at Department of Energy and Climate Change for a number of years involved in climate change policy at EU and international level.

Professor Richard Macrory, co-director of the Centre, said, “I am delighted that Martin who has a such a wealth of recent experience in climate change policy and legal issues wishes to be associated with the Centre and the Law Faculty. We look forward to opportunities for collaboration over the next few years.”

Professor Catherine Redgwell has been awarded £143,708 as a co-investigator in a £1.3m two year research project on Climate Geoengineering Governance (CGG) funded by the ESRC and AHRC.

The project will be led from the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, and will also involve the Institute for Science and Ethics at Oxford together with the Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex and UCL Faculty of Laws. The work will be grouped around three sets of understandings required to inform decisions on geoengineering governance: framings of geoengineering;  dilemmas of control of geoengineering technologies; and choosing governance and regulatory requirements.

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