Jonathan Church

Key information

Email:听jonathan.church.13@ucl.ac.uk

Jonathan joined 果冻影院 as a PhD candidate in September 2020, following 6 years as a climate accountability lawyer at the environmental law charity, ClientEarth. During that time, Jonathan worked on climate governance at the international, national and EU level.听He continues to advise on the development and implementation of national climate laws.

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Jonathan鈥檚 PhD thesis challenges the approach taken by existing climate change laws and proposes an alternative model by which the law might听more effectively drive emissions reductions.

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Jonathan holds an LLM in Environmental Law and Policy from 果冻影院 and an MSci in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

Research Supervisors

Professor Jeff King

果冻影院 Associations/Academic and Professional Memberships

果冻影院 Centre for Law and Environment, 2020 鈥撎�
UK Environmental Law Association (co-convenor, Climate Change and Energy Working Party), 2016 鈥� 2018听

Professional Experience

Consultancy work on climate change law, 2021 -听
Climate Accountability Lawyer, ClientEarth, 2014 鈥� 2020听
Solicitor in private practice, 2011 鈥� 2013

Public Engagements and Media Coverage

Jonathan has appeared in or been published / quoted in a range of media:

Carbon Brief, December 2020 -听
Irish Times, October 2020 -
BBC Future Planet, July 2020 鈥�
BBC Inside Science, April 2020 鈥�
Sky News at 10, February 2020 鈥� concerning the Heathrow judgment, [2019] EWHC 1070 (Admin)
Nature podcast, September 2018 鈥�
ITV News at 10, October 2017 鈥� concerning the UK Government鈥檚 Clean Growth Strategy
BBC News, September 2017 鈥�
Carbon Brief, May 2017 -
Financial Times, October 2016 鈥�
BusinessGreen, October 2014 鈥�

Publications

'' (2022) 45(3) Melbourne University Law Review 1045-1092 (A Foerster, A Bleby, A Kallie and J Church)
(ClientEarth, September 2021)
(ClientEarth, October 2016)听
Enforcing the Climate Change Act (2015) 4(1) 果冻影院JLJ 109, 果冻影院 Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

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