Dr Chukwumerije Okereke
chuks.okereke [at] smithschool.ox.ac.uk
Chuks Okereke's research interests lie broadly in the links between global environmental governance systems and international development – both in the realm of theory and in practice. His current research focuses on the relationship between business climate strategies, government policies, and international climate governance. This involves, firstly, attempting to deepen understanding of the motivations, drivers, and barriers against action and the relationship to future climate policies and architectures. Secondly, the research aims to articulate corporate climate strategies and policy frameworks for linking private sector-led carbon management efforts and economic development in developing countries in the post-2012 climate regime. Chuks also explores the roles of equity norms and economic ideas in global environmental governance drawing from political philosophy and international relations theories. Before joining the Smith School, Chuks was a Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). His recent books include Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance (Routledge 2008) and The Politics of the Environment (ed.) (Routledge 2007).
Recent publications
Okereke, C. (in press) The climate politics of nation state negotiation. In: Boykoff, M. (ed.) The Politics of Climate Change. London: Routledge/Europa.
Okereke, C., & Russel, D. (under review) Competitive dynamics and regulatory pressure: impacts on the carbon management strategies of UK energy intensive companies.
Okereke, C. & Dooley, K. (under review) Distributive equity concerns in an international REDD mechanism: towards a Copenhagen climate agreement.
Okereke, C. (in press) The ethical dimensions of global environmental governance. In: Europa Publications (ed.) The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory. London: Routledge.
Okereke, C., Bulkeley, H. & Schroeder, H. (2009) Conceptualizing climate change governance beyond the international regime. Global Environmental Politics 9, 56-76.
Okereke, C. & Schroeder, H. (2009) How can justice development and climate change mitigation be reconciled for developing countries in a post-Kyoto settlement? Climate and Development 1, 10-15.
18 November 2009
Saving forests and those living in them
The benefits of forests such as carbon storage, reduced flooding and soil erosion, and the provision of food and jobs should be protected in a new climate change treaty, Dr Chucks Okereke and Kate Dooley say.
16 November 2009
Best and worst practices of global energy firms
Dr Chuks Okereke is among a group of scientists to have won funding to study the links between the climate change strategies of energy-intensive companies and the environmental policies of the countries in which they operate.
12 November 2009
Finance measure have failed to cut emissions
Delays now in cutting emissions mean “taking a huge gamble with civilisation,” Dr Okereke and Dr Mark Charlesworth say in a letter published this week in Nature Reports. Their letter follows the publication of a study by Dr Charlesworth and Dr Okereke suggesting that policy-makers are using the claim that they need more research and more predictions before they can take action.