Professor Jorge Vinuales
Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy, University of Cambridge.
About me
Professor Jorge Vinuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, where he founded the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG).
He has wide experience advising governments, international organisations, investors and companies on strategic, policy and governance matters arising from the sustainability transition. He has used the expertise underpinning this course in contexts as diverse as advising Turkey on the implementation of the Paris Agreement, a multinational software company on carbon border adjustment measures, an AI-specialised hedge fund on ESG and sustainable finance, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on COVID-19 and climate finance, NGO Oil Change International on the legal obligations of export credit agencies when considering investment in fossil fuels abroad, serving as arbitrator or counsel in investment disputes for hundreds of millions of pounds, or chairing a UN Committee on Water and Health overseeing the policies of 27 states.
Course
Publications
The International Law of Energy(Opens in a new window), September 2022, Cambridge University Press
Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies(Opens in a new window)y 2022, Nature Climate Change.
Reframing incentives for climate policy action(Opens in a new window)34-2 (with J. F Mercure and others), November 2021, Nature Energy.
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law(Opens in a new window), May 2019, Oxford University Press
International Environmental Law(Opens in a new window) (with Pierre-Marie Dupuy), 2018, Cambridge University Press
Climate–carbon cycle uncertainties and the Paris Agreement(Opens in a new window) (with P.B. Holden and others), June 2018, Nature Climate Change.