Christina Voigt

Professor Christina Voigt is a leading expert in international environmental law and works in particular on legal issues of climate change, biodiversity conservation, environmental multilateralism and sustainability. 

She chairs the thematic group on "Climate Law" at the Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, is Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), and Co-Chair of the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee (PAICC). She acted as IUCNs lead legal counsel in the climate change advisory proceedings before the ICJ, ITLOSA and the IACtHR. She co-chaired the UNFCCC COP work program on results-based financing for Reducing Emissions of Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and advised bi- and multilateral cooperation on the implementation of REDD+.