My research investigates the EU’s trade-climate policies, namely climate-related provisions in the EU’s preferential trade agreements and its unilateral instruments. I also work on the intersection between international climate and economic governance, in particular linkages between the Paris Agreement and trade policy.
More broadly, I’m interested in international cooperation, sustainable development, EU trade policy and politics, planetary commons and climate change, institutional linkages, questions around international legitimacy and global political economy.
In my PhD, I analysed trade and sustainable development (TSD) provisions in the EU’s preferential trade agreements, with a particular focus on climate aspects and the drive for more robust enforcement. In my postdoctoral research, I have extended this focus to the EU’s unilateral trade-environmental measures, specifically, the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and the regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) from the perspective of exporting countries.
These measures have triggered immense political contestation, which I explore through a mixed-methods, cross-domain approach that moves beyond surface-level variables (e.g., expected economic impact and strategic discourse) to chart the nuances in Global South countries’ perceptions and contestations of these policies.
