Scholars
Romain Weikmans
Université libre de Bruxelles
Based in
Belgium
Europe
Dr. Romain Weikmans is Associate Professor (“Chargé de cours”) of Global Environmental Governance at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) / Free University of Brussels. He is affiliated to REPI, a research unit of the Department of Political Science at ULB. His main research interests centre on international climate finance, climate transparency, and climate adaptation. He has published widely on these topics, including in Nature Climate Change, Climate Policy, and Global Environmental Politics. Romain earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Management from ULB in 2015. He has conducted research and taught at Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs, at Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab (Providence, RI, USA) and at the Environmental Change Institute (Oxford University). He is a lead author of the 2020 UNEP Adaptation Gap Report and a contributing author to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (WG2). In 2023, Romain Weikmans was elected as a Member of the Collegium of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium for a five-year term.
Focus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate JusticePublications
Transparency in Global Climate Governance
Harrould-Kolieb, E., van Hasselt, H., Weikmans, R., & Vihma, A. (2023). Opening the black box of transparency: An analytical framework for exploring causal pathways from reporting and review to state behaviour change. International Studies Review.
Weikmans, R., & Gupta, A. (2021), “Assessing state compliance with multilateral climate transparency: ‘Transparency Adherence Indices’ and their research and policy implications,” Climate Policy.
Weikmans, R., van Asselt, H., & Roberts, J. T. (2020), “Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs),” Climate Policy, vol. 20, n°4, p. 511-526.
Ciplet, D., Adams, K., Weikmans, R., & Roberts, J.T. (2018), “The Transformative Capability of Transparency in Global Environmental Governance,” Global Environmental Politics, vol. 18, n°3, p. 130-150.
Climate Finance
Weikmans, R. (2023). The normative foundations of international climate adaptation finance. Cambridge University Press.
Robinson, S.-a., Roberts, J. T., Weikmans, R., & Falzon, D. (2023). Vulnerability-based allocations in loss and damage finance. Nature Climate Change.
Harrould-Kolieb, E., van Hasselt, H., Weikmans, R., & Vihma, A. (2023). Opening the black box of transparency: An analytical framework for exploring causal pathways from reporting and review to state behaviour change. International Studies Review.
Ciplet, D., Falzon, D., Uri, I., Robinson, S.-a., Weikmans, R., & Roberts, J. T. (2022). The unequal geographies of climate finance: Climate injustice and dependency in the world system. Political Geography.
Pauw, W. P., Moslener, U., Zamarioli, L. H., Amerasinghe, N., Atela, J., Affana, J. P. B., Buchner, B., Klein, R. J. T., Mbeva, K. L., Puri, J., Roberts, J. T., Shawoo, Z., Watson, C., & Weikmans, R. (2022). Post-2025 climate finance target: how much more and how much better?. Climate Policy.
Roberts, J. T., & Weikmans, R. (2022). Checking contentious counting. Nature Climate Change.
Weikmans, R., & Gupta, A. (2021). Assessing state compliance with multilateral climate transparency requirements: ‘Transparency Adherence Indices’ and their research and policy implications. Climate Policy.
Roberts, J.T., Weikmans, R., Robinson, S.-a., Ciplet, D., Khan, M., & Falzon, D. (2021), “Rebooting a failed promise of climate finance,” Nature Climate Change.
Weikmans, R., Roberts, J.T, & Robinson, S.-a. (2020), “What counts as climate finance? Define urgently,” Nature, vol. 588, n°7837, p. 220.
Khan, M., Robinson, S.-A., Weikmans, R., Ciplet, D., & Roberts, J. T. (2020), “Twenty-five years of adaptation finance through a climate justice lens,” Climatic Change, vol. 161, n°2, p. 251-269.
Weikmans, R., & Roberts, J.T. (2019), “The International Climate Finance Accounting Muddle: Is There Hope on the Horizon?,” Climate and Development, vol. 11, n°2, p. 97-111
Gewirtzman, J., Natson, S., Richards, J.-A., Hoffmeister, V., Durand, A., Weikmans, R., Huq, S., & Roberts, J.T. (2018), “Financing loss and damage: reviewing options under the Warsaw International Mechanism,” Climate Policy, vol. 18, n°8, p. 1076-1086.
Roberts, J.T., Natson, S., Hoffmeister, V., Durand, A., Weikmans, R., Gewirtzman, J., & Huq, S. (2017), “How will we pay for loss and damage?,” Ethics, Policy & Environment, vol. 20, n°2, p. 208-226.
Weikmans, R., Roberts, J.T., Baum, J., Bustos, C., & Durand, A. (2017), “Assessing the credibility of how climate adaptation aid projects are categorised,” Development in Practice, vol. 27, n°4, p. 458-471.
Roberts, J.T., & Weikmans, R. (2017), “Fragmentation, failing trust and enduring tensions over what counts as climate finance,” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, vol. 17, n°1, p. 129-137.