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Christina Voigt, Ph.D./Dr. jur. (Oslo, Norway), LL.M. Env. (Hons.1) (Auckland, New Zealand), Rechtswissenschaft/Law (Passau and Munich, Germany), is Full Professor of Law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
Professor Voigt is the chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and acted as IUCN´s lead legal counsel in the climate change advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights and the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.
From 2009 to 2018, she served the Norwegian government as lead negotiator on REDD+ and as principal legal advisor in the UN climate change negotiations; negotiating, inter alia, the Paris Agreement and its Rulebook. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Paris Agreement Compliance Committee and served from 2020 until 2024 as the Committee´s inaugural Co-Chair.
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