Jessica Green
Professor, Department of Political Science
Areas of interest
- Climate governance
- Non-state actors
- Private authority
- Global governance
- Transnational regulation
Biography
Main Bio
Jessica Green is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is also cross-appointed in the School of Environment. She has previously held positions at Case Western University (in Cleveland, OH) and New York University (in NYC).
Select publications
- The Climate Establishment and the Paris partnerships ( : 2024)
- Explaining green industrial policy in an age of globalization ( : 2024)
- The net zero wave: identifying patterns in the uptake and robustness of national and corporate net zero targets 2015–2023 ( : 2024)
- 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)
- We Need a Green New Deal for Canada ( : 2019)
- The U.N. Climate Summit starts today. Here’s what it can — and can’t — achieve ( : 2019)
Awards & recognition
- 2022 Fellowship Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University
- 2021 Featured Scholar of the Week Green Climate Social Science Network