Credit: European Environment Agency Today, the European Commission hosted the #OneHealthEU conference to discuss the future of One Health in Europe. On this occasion, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has teamed up with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the ..read more

This week, I joined the 19th meeting of the ENVE Commission of the European Committee of the Regions in Malaga, Spain to deliver a statement on the state of environmental health in Europe on behalf of the European Environment Agency. The statement will support the drafting of an ENVE Commission’s opinion on ‘Green Deal and ..read more

Credit: MEP Eric Andrieu A few weeks ago, the European Environment Agency published its new briefing on ‘How pesticides impact human health and ecosystems in Europe‘. As the lead author of the briefing, I was pleased to see the coverage received by our analysis, which aims to inform the debate in the European Parliament on ..read more

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the Research Office of the Graduate Institute of Geneva about the findings of my PhD dissertation, titled Protecting Ecosystem Integrity in the Age of Planetary Boundaries: Science, International Environmental Law, and the Ecosystem Approach. In the interview, I explain the core argument of ..read more

In May of this year, Routledge finally published Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance: Pathways to Effectiveness, a co-edited volume which represents the main research output of the time I spent as a researcher for the Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES) in Geneva, Switzerland. The volume, which I had the pleasure of co-editing ..read more

The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030 announced the publication of its long-awaited report. In the report, which I co-authored, we explore the multi-faceted interactions of digital technologies and human health and well-being ..read more

The Polish government has recently announced the release of an update to its management plan for the Białowieża forest, authorising new logging operations for the first time since 2016. I have shared some reflections on the plan, its relationship with a landmark ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU, and the recent letter of notice addressed to Poland by the European Commission on the blog of the Jean Monnet Module in European and International Environmental Law (EIEL ..read more

I am excited to announce that after three years as programme manager of a Jean Monnet Module in European Union Law and Sustainable Development (EULawSD), I am once again the co-recipient of an Erasmus+ grant for Jean Monnet Activities, which was awarded by the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) as part ..read more

I am honoured to announce that on May 29th, starting from 8am EDT, I will moderate a webinar with Professor Sir Robert (Bob) Watson CMG FRS on the role of science-policy interfaces in the areas of biodiversity and climate change. An atmospheric chemist by formation, Sir Bob Watson is rightly recognised as one of the ..read more

At the beginning of last year, the Global Policy journal published a research article on ‘Gridlock, Innovation and Resilience in Global Health Governance‘, that I had co-authored with Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told, Kyle McNally and the late David Held. One of the arguments of the study was that our era of growing health risks and socio-economic insecurities could easily lead to a crisis that would threaten to upend decades of progress in global health. Today, the same journal hosts an opinion piece in which Ilona Kickbusch and myself reflect on the ‘legacy’ of that research in the light of th ..read more