Jihyung Joo is a Postgraduate student at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds. During her PhD, she studied the institutionalization of climate policy and carbon markets in the Paris-era. She previously worked as a researcher at the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Taskforce of the Ministry of Environment of Korea, assisting in the policy design to implement Korea’s ETS. She also worked as a project manager for ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Eco-Innovation Index research, which developed a tool to evaluate eco-innovation policies and practices in 41 Asia-Europe countries. Through her academic training and career path, she became a social scientist who enjoys communicating and creating knowledge with experts across disciplines and nationalities, especially in the climate policy arena where she puts her life-long passion. She is committed to being an interdisciplinary researcher who seeks solutions and suggests future directions for climate policy. Joo, J., Paavola, J., Van Alstine, J. (2023) “Contested net-zero target setting in a transitioning country: The case of South Korea”. Futures, 147, 103114.

Park, M.S., Bleischwitz, R., Han, K.J., Jang, E.K., Joo, J.H. (2017) “Eco-Innovation Indices as Tools for Measuring Eco-Innovation”. Sustainability, 9(12), 2206.