Joseph Earsom

Joseph Earsom is Associate Professor in Environmental and Climate policy at ESPOL.

His research focuses on the international governance of climate change, with a particular emphasis on how states and other actors, such as the European Union, navigate the many institutions handling different aspects of the broader climate crisis.

Joseph holds a MSc. in European Politics & Policies from the KU Leuven (Belgium) and a PhD in political science from the UCLouvain (Belgium; title: Connecting the dots? The European Union’s diplomacy across the international regime complex on climate change). During his PhD, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado – Boulder (USA). He has served as a research consultant at the WTO on a project regarding virtual negotiations. In addition, he has volunteered his expertise for several capacity buildings projects for multilateral environmental negotiations. He is also a scientific collaborator within the Institut de sciences politiques – Louvain Europe at the UCLouvain.

Languages spoken: English, French, Dutch

Courses taught:

• Green Political Theory
• The European Green Deal
• European Environmental Governance
• International Environmental and Climate Governance

Specific research interests:

• International climate governance
• European climate diplomacy
• Regime complexity
• Decarbonising transport
• Bureaucratic politics

Publications:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jbkDYwUAAAAJ&hl=en