Dr. juris Christina Voigt is professor at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway.

Professor Voigt is an expert in international environmental law and works in particular on legal issues of climate change, biodiversity conservation, environmental multilateralism and sustainability. She chairs the thematic group on “Climate Law” at the Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law.

Professor Voigt is Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) and a member of the IUCN Council. She is a board member of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Forest and Community Initiative of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Normandy Chair for Peace, Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability, and the International Council for Environmental Law.

She is the author of numerous academic articles, a monograph, and several edited books; among them “International Judicial Practice on the Environment – Questions of Legitimacy” (CUP, 2019) and “Courts and the Environment” (with Z. Makuch, EEP, 2018). Others include “Research Handbook on REDD+ and International Law (EEP, 2016) and “Rule of Law for Nature” (CUP, 2013). In 2009, she was awarded the first Junior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law.

From 2009-2018, she also worked for the Norwegian Government as lead negotiator on REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries) and as principal legal advisor in the UN climate negotiations; negotiating, inter alia, the Paris Agreement (2015) and the Katowice Rulebook for the Paris Agreement (2018). At COP24 2018 in Katowice, she was co-facilitator for the negotiations on the rules for the Paris Agreement´s implementation and compliance committee. In 2019, she was elected by 195 states as a member of that committee and has been its inaugural co-chair since 2020.