Who should be responsible for ending carbon pollution?

Dr Ashfaq Khalfan is the Director of the Sustainability
Regulation Observatory and a Distinguished Policy Fellow at LSE. His
work focuses on critical analysis of sustainability regulation and its
political economy, with an emphasis on regulatory design choices that
are politically and economically sound and advance human rights,
equality and environmental protection.

He brings over two decades
of international leadership at the intersection of climate governance,
sustainable development and human rights. He previously served as the
Director of Climate Justice at Oxfam America, leading research,
advocacy, litigation and policy development on energy transition,
climate finance, climate inequality and tax and climate policy.
Previously, he was Director of the Law and Policy Programme at Amnesty
International where he oversaw Amnesty’s first global climate strategy
and directed legal and policy research, analysis and advocacy spanning
civil liberties, criminal justice, strategic litigation and
environmental impacts on human rights.

His scholarship and
practice include co-authoring the Maastricht Principles on
Extraterritorial Obligations and the Maastricht Principles on the Human
Rights of Future Generations and their commentaries, which influenced
international human rights jurisprudence. He engaged in advocacy that
contributed to the UN Human Rights Council’s recognition of the human
rights to water and sanitation. He holds a doctorate in law from Merton
College, Oxford University, degrees in common law, civil law, and
political science from McGill University. He is Chair and a founding
Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.