I develop frameworks to advance the conceptual understanding of the roles of various climate actors and assess the fairness and ambition of their pledges.

My work directly informs country-delegations at the UN COPs, judges in climate litigation cases, and governmental official emissions targets.

I regularly contribute to academic and public events. The full list is available at: yannrobioudupont.org/media

I regularly teach guest lecture on climate justice and ambition, upon request. I have given lectures for Princeton, Sciences Po, Audencia, CEA, Centrale Nantes, HVL, Bergen University, Utrecht University and University of Melbourne. Summer school Utrecht and Bergen.

Full list at: yannrobioudupont.org/publications
 

Robiou du Pont et al., From countries to cities: assessing climate ambition with a multi-level fair-share allocation framework. Under review

Robiou du Pont, How have climate trials influenced scientific literature on fairness and ambition assessments? Book Chapter, Brill, accepted 

Robiou du Pont, Assessing Paris-alignment of corporate pledges for climate litigation, Book Chapter, Confluence des droits, DICE, accepted 

Robiou du Pont et al., 2025 Effect of discontinuous fair-share emissions allocations immediately based on equity, Nature Communications. Online
Basis for the FairShareNow campaign of 70+ Vulnerable countries. Interactive website at: TrafficLightClimate.org

Robiou du Pont, 2024 Proof on equitable emissions trajectories before courts. Book Chapter, Confluence des droits, DICE, Online

Robiou du Pont et al. 2024 Corporate emissions targets and the neglect of future innovators. Science. Online

Robiou du Pont, Meinshausen 2018 Warming assessment of the bottom-up Paris Agreement emissions pledges. Nature Communications. Online 
Ranked 8th at the Top 50: Earth and Planetary Sciences of Nature Communications. Interactive website at: Paris-Equity-Check.org 

Robiou du Pont, 2018 PhD Thesis - Climate justice: can we agree to disagree? Operationalising competing equity principles to mitigate global warming, University of Melbourne. Online

Robiou du Pont et al. 2017 Equitable mitigation to achieve the Paris Agreement goals Nature Climate Change. Online 

Robiou du Pont et al., 2016 National contributions for decarbonizing the world economy in line with the G7 agreement ERL. Online 

Dekker et al., 2025 Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets. Nature Climate Change. Online

Wang et al., Quantifying national climate responsibility for the loss and damage fund, Submitted to Nature Communications.

Schwanitz et al., The interpretation of science-based targets for cities. Under review with Cities. 

Pan et al. 2022 Decarbonization pathways to align China’s energy system with the Paris goals Science Bulletin Online

Pan et al. 2022 Understanding equity-efficiency interaction in global carbon budgets Advances in Climate Change Research Online

Wierling et al. 2022 A Europe-wide inventory of citizen-led energy action, data from 29 countries and over 10000 initiatives, Scientific Data Online

Meinshausen, et. al 2015 National post-2020 greenhouse gas targets and diversity-aware leadership Nature Climate Change. Online

Reports and webtools

Benchmarking the Benchmarks A Review of Corporate Decarbonization Metrics. Robiou du Pont et al., DataDriven EnviroLab, 2026. Online

People’s Petition - A Collective Climate Justice Call for the ICJ. PISFCC, WY4CJ. Future Generation Tribunal, 2024 Online

A user guide to engage citizens in the Valencia Climate Alliance. Robiou du Pont et al. Part of the SSH Centre a H2020 project, 2024. Online

The Paris Agreement global goals: What does a fair share for G20 countries look like? Robiou du Pont 2017. Online

Greenhouse gas emissions budgets for Victoria. Meinshausen et al., 2018. University of Melbourne. Online

Multi-level climate governance in Vietnam. Strauch et al. 2018. adelphi. Online

Water and the city: Where adaptation and mitigation converge. Bellali, et al. 2018. adelphi. Online

Policy Brief: Enhancing the ambition and implementation of NDCs using Long-Term Strategies. Robiou du Pont and Vallejo 2019. IDDRI, Online

Neither euphoria nor despair: Understanding the fall and rise of global energy-related CO₂ emissions. Spencer et al. 2019. IDDRI, Online

The Climate Transparency Report 2021, Climate Transparency, 2021. Profiles for France and Italy. Online

1.5°C National Pathway Explorer, 2021. Online. Country Factsheet: France

The Land Gap Report 2022, Dooley et al. 2022. Online

Traffic Light Assessment Report 2022 (author) & 2023 (editor). Designer of the webtool trafficlightclimate.org 

Paris Ambition project