The current working title of her monograph project is: “Who pays for climate mitigation? The role and function of the polluter-pays principle in EU climate mitigation law towards net zero and net negative emissions”.

While a substantial part of the PhD will approach the topic based on a doctrinal approach analysing the role and functioning of the polluter-pays principle as explicitly expressed by TFEU 191 (2) and implicitly through the rules set forth in EU secondary law mitigation measures such as the EU ETS, she is also looking to include non-doctrinal methods to approach the topic from a governance perspective. What are the advantages and disadvantages of governing the complex, comprehensive and rapidly evolving climate mitigation law according to an overarching cost allocation principle?

During her stay in Amsterdam, as she continues her work with the doctrinal analysis, she hopes to learn more about the different external approaches to law pursued by the researchers at ACELG and how they go beyond analysing the core legal sources within the European legal order.  

Heidi holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Oslo and an LLM from Penn State Law. As part of her PhD work, she has recently published an article on ‘Removing CO2 from the Atmosphere to Enable Net Negative Emissions – A Behavioural Law and Economics Perspective’ in Carbon & Climate Law Review, Volume 17 (2023), Issue 4.