The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform

Jakob Skovgaard is a researcher at Lunds Universitet, Sweden, undertaking research on EU and international climate change policy. From 2007 to 2010 he worked in the international climate change team of the Danish Finance Ministry, his responsibilities covering inter alia international fossil fuel subsidy reform. His recent publications include articles in Global Environmental Politics, the Journal of Common Market Studies, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, World Development and Environmental Politics, and a special issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics.

Harro van Asselt is Professor of Climate Law and Policy in the Law School of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), and a Senior Research Fellow with the Stockholm Environment Institute. He is Editor of the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. He was previously employed at the University of Oxford and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published widely, including in Nature Climate Change, Global Policy, Global Governance, Regulation & Governance, Climatic Change, Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics, and Climate Policy. He is the author of The Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance (2014).