Injy Johnstone
Research Associate in Net Zero Aligned Offsetting
Profile
Injy is a Research Fellow in Net-Zero Aligned Offsetting at the University of Oxford and an Associate Member of St Antony’s College. A lawyer by training, Injy completed her PhD in international environmental and trade law where she explored Net-Zero as a source of new legal norms, including the environmental integrity of carbon markets.
Injy’s research touches on a wide range of policies and prospects for net zero alignment domestically and internationally, with a special focus on carbon markets. In October 2024 Injy was announced as one of seven inaugural Stripe Climate Fellows. She also currently serves as a Technical Review Editor of UNEP’s 7th Global Environment Outlook Report, sits on the UNFCCC’s Article 6.4 Expert Roster, the GRI’s technical sub-group on carbon credits, the GHG Protocol’s Actions and Market Instruments Technical Working Group and the advisory boards of the Carbon Coalition and C-Naught. In 2024 she was a lead author of the second version of the State of CDR Report & the revised Oxford Offsetting Principles.
Injy worked with and advised a range of public, private and third-sector entities, including APEC, the Global Center on Adaptation, UNESCO, and New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment. She is an enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and holds an LLM in Environmental and Energy Law gained as a Fulbright scholar from the University of Colorado-Boulder, an LLB(First Class Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington and a BSc in Physical Geography and Economics from the University of Otago.
