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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Belgium Leader Award
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  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Sebastian Oberthür is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. The research work conducted centers primarily on climate change policy, environmental science, and economics, with a particular focus on European Union governance frameworks and sustainability issues.

The main fields of study include:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these, the notable subfields Oberthür engages with are:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • General Energy
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering

The primary topics of scholarly focus are:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Global Energy Security and Policy
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Environmental Law and Policy
  • Policy Transfer and Learning

Prominent recent publications authored by Oberthür include:

  • The European Union's international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy? (2021), Journal of European Public Policy
  • From emissions trading to the European Green Deal: the evolution of the climate policy mix and climate policy integration in the EU (2022), Journal of European Public Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating on research outputs with Oberthür are:

  • Lukas Hermwille
  • Harro van Asselt
  • Ingmar von Homeyer
  • Claire Dupont
  • Wolfgang Obergassel

Key publication venues where Oberthür's works have appeared frequently include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Journal of European Integration
  • Earth System Governance
  • Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law

Best Publications

  • The Kyoto protocol : international climate policy for the 21st century

    Sebastian Oberthür;Hermann Ott;Richard Tarasofsky;Ernst U. von Weizsäcker

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

    F. Biermann;F. Biermann;K. Abbott;S. Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • EU Leadership in International Climate Policy: Achievements and Challenges

    Sebastian Oberthür;Claire Roche Kelly

  • The Kyoto Protocol

    Sebastian Oberthür;Hermann E. Ott

  • Institutional Interaction in Global Environmental Governance. Synergy and Conflict among International and EU Policies

    Sebastian Oberthür;Thomas Gehring;Oran R. Young

  • The Causal Mechanisms of Interaction between International Institutions

    Thomas T. Gehring;Sebastian Oberthur

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Kenneth Abbott;Steinar Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental Change

    Sebastian Oberthür;Olav Schram Stokke;Olav Schram Stokke

  • Interplay management: enhancing environmental policy integration among international institutions

    Sebastian Oberthür

  • The new climate policies of the European Union: internal legislation and climate diplomacy

    Sebastian Oberthur;Marc Pallemaerts

  • The architecture of the global climate regime: a top-down perspective

    William Hare;Claire Stockwell;Christian Flachsland;Sebastian Oberthür

  • Institutional interaction in global environmental governance: the case of the Cartagena Protocol and the World Trade Organization

    Sebastian Oberthur;Thomas Gehring

  • Explaining goal achievement in international negotiations: the EU and the Paris Agreement on climate change

    Sebastian Oberthür;Lisanne Groen

  • Introduction: Assessing the EU’s Performance in International Institutions – Conceptual Framework and Core Findings

    Knud Erik Jørgensen;Sebastian Oberthür;Jamal Shahin

  • National post-2020 greenhouse gas targets and diversity-aware leadership

    Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Louise Jeffery;Johannes Guetschow;Yann Robiou du Pont

  • Linkages between the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols – Enhancing Synergies between Protecting the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate

    Sebastian Oberthür

  • Insufficient climate policy integration in EU energy policy: the importance of the long-term perspective

    Claire Dupont;Sebastian Oberthür

  • The European Union’s Performance in the International Climate Change Regime

    Sebastian Oberthür

  • The EU's internal and external climate policies: an historical overview

    Sebastian Oberthur;Marc Pallemaerts

  • The Covid-19 crisis: a critical juncture for EU climate policy development?

    Claire Dupont;Sebastian Oberthür;Ingmar von Homeyer

  • Institutional interaction to address greenhouse gas emissions from international transport: ICAO, IMO and the Kyoto Protocol

    Sebastian Oberthür

  • Clustering of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Potentials and Limitations

    Sebastian Oberthür;Sebastian Oberthür

  • Assessing the EU’s 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework: Incremental change toward radical transformation?

    Kati Kulovesi;Sebastian Oberthür

  • The European Union’s international climate leadership : towards a grand climate strategy

    Sebastian Oberthür;Claire Dupont

  • Assessing the EU's performance in international institutions. Conceptual framework and core findings

    Knud Erik Jørgensen;Sebastian Oberthür;Jamal Shahin

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Frank Biermann
Frank Biermann Utrecht University
Niklas Höhne
Niklas Höhne Wageningen University & Research
Oran R. Young
Oran R. Young University of California, Santa Barbara
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Louis Lebel
Louis Lebel Chiang Mai University
Malte Meinshausen
Malte Meinshausen University of Melbourne
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University

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