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Dr Chukwumerije Okereke

Dr Chuks Okereke

chuks.okereke [at] smithschool.ox.ac.uk

Dr  Chukwumerije Okereke was a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Climate and Development centre at the Smith School. He is a renowned policy analysis and development specialist.  His main interest is the governance of climate change and the links with international development. He has been engaged in teaching, research and consultancy activities focusing on climate governance, climate adaptation and low carbon development in developing countries for over 15 years.

Current research activities include: (i) the governance of low carbon development in Africa; (ii) global environmental justice and international development; and (iii) the links between government policy and corporate climate change strategies. Dr Okereke has worked and published extensively on climate governance and international development with special focus on policy design, ethical dimensions of institutions of governance and the role of private sector in climate governance. He was the Project Manager of the Rwandan National Strategy for Climate and Low Carbon Development project funded jointly by the Climate Development and Knowledge Network (CDKN) and DfID Rwanda. He has also been the Project Director of many other climate change and adaptation projects including Climate Change Impact on Health and Response Options for the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Dr Okereke is the Moderator of United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Climate Diplomacy Course and an ad-hoc consultant to UNDP and the World Bank. He is the author of several literature and research papers on national and global environmental policy-making including Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance (Routledge 2008) and The Politics of the Environment (ed.) (Routledge 2007).

Recent publications

 

Okereke, C., & Dooley, K. (2010). Principles of justice in proposals and policy approaches to avoided deforestation: Towards a post-climate agreement, Global Environmental Change, 20:  82–95.
Charlesworth, M., & Okereke, C. (2010). Policy responses to rapid climate change; An epistemological critique of dominant approaches, Global Environmental Change, 20: 121–129.
Okereke, C. & Russel, D. (2010). Regulatory Pressure and Competitive Dynamics: Carbon Management Strategies of UK Energy-Intensive Companies. California Management Review, 52 (4): 100-124.
Okereke, C. (2010). Climate justice and the international regime: WIREs Clim Change: Advanced Review, Vol. 1 May/June 2010, 462–474.
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.
Okereke, C. (2009). The ethical dimensions of global environmental governance. In: Europa Publications (ed.) The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory. London: Routledge.
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