Farhana Yamin

Visiting Professor

Farhana Yamin is an internationally recognized environmental lawyer specializing in climate change law and policy. She has advised Ministers and Leaders on global climate negotiations for over 25 years. She is the founder and CEO of Track 0, an NGO providing research, communication and strategy services on how to get greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. She has taught climate change related modules on the international environmental law courses at SOAS and UCL and has been a Visiting Professor at UCL since 2013.

Between 1996 and 2002, she was Lead Author for three successive assessment reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on adaptation and mitigation issues. She has written numerous books and articles on the climate governance, carbon markets, and on various legal aspects of the international climate change regime. She continues to provide legal, strategy and policy advice to NGOs, foundations and developing nations on international climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC, Kyoto and Paris Agreement. She is currently the Climate Advisor to President Hilda Heine of the Republic of the Marshall Islands an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. Her new research focuses on climate justice and the role of climate change litigation.