Jakob Skovgaard

Jakob Skovgaard is Researcher at Lund University (Sweden), undertaking research on European Union and international climate change policy, and holds a doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence. From 2007 to 2010 he worked in the international climate change team of the Danish Finance Ministry, his responsibilities covering inter alia international fossil fuel subsidy reform. His recent publications include articles in the journals Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, World Development and Environmental Politics, and the edited volume The Politic of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (2018, Cambridge University Press).