Professor, Department of Political Science, and School of the Environment
Department of Political Science, Sidney Smith Hall 100 St. George Street, SS 3031
416-978-6758
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Cross-Appointments
Department of Political Science
Fields of Study
- Climate Policy & Politics
- Energy & Resources
- Environmental Policy & Politics
Areas of Interest
- Climate governance
- Non-state actors
- Private authority
- Global governance
- Transnational regulation
Biography
Publications include Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance (Princeton University Press, 2014), articles on carbon markets, delegation to non-state actors, transnational regulation, regime complexity, organizational ecology. She has published in journals including Nature, International Organization, Global Environmental Politics, International Interactions, Regulation and Governance, Business and Politics and blogs regularly for the Washington Post.
Education
BA, Brown University
MPA, Columbia University
PhD, Princeton University
Awards
- 2022 Fellowship Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University
- 2021 Featured Scholar of the Week Green Climate Social Science Network
Publications
- Buying carbon offsets is a waste of time that we don’t have ( : 2023)
- The history of net zero: can we move from concepts to practice? ( : 2023)
- The False Promise of Carbon Offsets ( : 2023)
- Taxpayers should not foot the bill for carbon capture ( : 2022)
- The Final Frontier Soon May No Longer Belong to All of Us ( : 2022)
- Are carbon markets helping to slow climate change? Maybe. ( : 2022)
- How Did Environmental Governance Become Complex? Understanding Mutualism Between Environmental NGOs and International Organizations (Oxford Academic : 2021)
- Follow the Money: How Reforming Tax and Trade Rules Can Fight Climate Change ( : 2021)
- Is the Glasgow COP26 summit the ‘last, best hope’ for the world? ( : 2021)
- Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses ( : 2021)
- Oil companies aren’t actually going green — but some are heading there faster than others ( : 2020)
- The U.N. Climate Summit starts today. Here’s what it can — and can’t — achieve ( : 2019)
- We Need a Green New Deal for Canada ( : 2019)
Administrative Service
Member of the Royal Society of Canada