Scholars
Kyla Tienhaara
Queen's University
Based in
Canada
North America
Kyla Tienhaara is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment in the School of Environmental Studies and Department of Global Development at Queen’s University. Her current work focuses on investment treaty coverage of fossil fuel assets and the use of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) to stall climate action. She is the author of several books, including The Expropriation of Environmental Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Green Keynesianism and the Global Financial Crisis (Routledge, 2018) and A Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19? (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She also co-edited the Handbook on the Green New Deal (Routledge), published in 2022. She sits on the Scientific Steering Committee for the Earth System Governance Project, a global research network that aims to advance knowledge at the interface between global environmental change and governance. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal Earth System Governance.
Country(ies) of Specialty
CanadaFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate law and litigation Climate Justice Fossil fuelsPublications
Articles
Arcuri, A., Tienhaara, K. & Pellegrini, L. Investment law v. supply-side climate policies: insights from Rockhopper v. Italy and Lone Pine v. Canada. Int Environ Agreements (2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-023-09622-w
Tienhaara, K., Thrasher, R., Simmons, B. & Gallagher, K. Investor-state dispute settlement: obstructing a just energy transition, Climate Policy (2023), 23:9, 1197-1212, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2153102
Calvert, J. & and Tienhaara, K. Beyond once bitten, twice shy: Defending the legitimacy of investor-state dispute settlement in Peru and Australia, Review of International Political Economy (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2022.2134172
Tienhaara, K., Thrasher, R., Simmons, B. & Gallagher, K.Investor-state disputes threaten the global green energy transition.Science376,701-703(2022). DOI:10.1126/science.abo4637
Tienhaara, K. & Walker, J. Fossil Capital, ‘Unquantifiable Risk’ and Neoliberal Nationalizations: The case of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Canada Geoforum (2021) 124: 120-131, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.06.005
Tienhaara, K. & and Cotula, L. Raising the cost of climate action? Investor-state dispute settlement and compensation for stranded fossil fuel assets, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London (2020), https://pubs.iied.org/17660iied