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).
 

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.

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.

Okereke, C. (2009). The climate politics of nation state negotiation. In: Boykoff, M. (ed.) The Politics of Climate Change. London: Routledge.

Charlesworth M. & Okereke, C (2009). A Call to Action, Nature Reports: Climate Change
Published online: 12 November 2009 | doi:10.1038/climate.2009.118.

Okereke , C and Dooley, K. (2009; in press). Principles of justice in proposals and policy approaches to avoided deforestation: Towards a post-climate agreement, Global Environmental Change. Doi:10.1016/gloenvcha.2009.08.004

Charlesworth M. & Okereke, C (2009; in press). Policy responses to rapid climate change; An epistemological critique of dominant approaches, Global Environmental Change. Doi:10.1016/gloenvcha.2009.09.001.

Okereke, C. (2009) The ethical dimensions of global environmental governance. In: Europa Publications (ed.) The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory. London: Routledge.