About this speaker
Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen is Associate Professor with the Public Administration and Policy Group of Wageningen University, the Netherlands. For the past 25 years she has researched global public governance of the environment including the possibilities to hold states to account for the moral and legal obligations they take on in such governance and more broadly the key functions that are needed in effective global public governance for the environment. Sylvia has published in leading journals in the domains of global energy, climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development governance. She is a member of the Task Force on Scenarios and Models for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) since 2016.
