Climate Governance and Federalism

Alan Fenna is Professor of Politics at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University, Western Australia. He specialises in Australian and comparative federalism and public polic and has authored or co-authored numerous book chapters and journal articles on federalism or public policy. He worked in the Federal Affairs Division of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Western Australia; was an elected member of local government; and served as President of the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) 2009–2010. Sébastien Jodoin is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law of McGill University, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Health, and the Environment. He is the founding director of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme, a pioneering initiative to generate, co-produce, and translate knowledge at the intersections of disability and climate justice. His work in the field of climate change has been cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Joana Setzer is an Assistant Professor at the Grantham Research Institute, at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. She leads the Institute's research on climate litigation as well as the Climate Change Laws of the World project – the most comprehensive global resource on climate policy, legislation, and litigation. She regularly advises a range of international organisations, governments and non-governmental organisations in the field of climate law and policy.