Sharon Turner

Sharon joined ClientEarth in June to lead their Climate & Energy Programme. She was previously the Professor of Environmental Law at Queen’s University Belfast where she worked for 25 years. She was the lead author of the established text on environmental law in Northern Ireland and editor of two edited collections. During her time at Queens, she had a  two-year secondment to the Department of the Environment (DOE) in Northern Ireland during which time she acted as the Department’s senior legal advisor on the environment.  In June 2013, she left Queens to join ClientEarth to lead their Climate and Energy Strategy. In this capacity, she leads a group of 13 lawyers located in offices in London, Brussels and Warsaw working on a range of law and policy reform and litigation projects spanning EU and national governance levels

Current projects (2013) include

1. Influencing the EU 2030 climate and energy reform process;

2. Collaborating with the European Climate Foundation, E3G and RAP in the writing of the Roadmaps to Reality report concerning decarbonisation of the EU power sector;

3. Leading a campaign for more robust economy wide carbon governance; 4.building legal capacity within the European Energy Efficiency Coalition; 5.collaborating with Friends of the Earth in a pan-EU community power project;

4. Building an analysis of the EU Commission’s approach to the development and application of EU State aid rules in EU energy market liberalisation and decarbonisation processes.