Book
Self-Determination as Voice: The Participation of Indigenous Peoples in International Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
— Winner of the 2025 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law
PhD thesis
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Law Review Articles
If you can’t read these due to a paywall, see my SSRN/ResearchGate or write to me for a preprint.
Jakob Skovgaard, Harro van Asselt, Christopher Beaton, Evan Drake, Natalie Jones, Neil McCulloch, Ronald Steenblik & Peter Wooders, ‘Revitalizing international fossil fuel subsidy phase-out commitments through roadmaps, closing loopholes, and support’ (2024) 3 npj Climate Action 68 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-024-00149-7
Natalie Jones, ‘Beyond ‘Error and Terror’: Global Justice and Global Catastrophic Risk’, in SJ Beard, Martin Rees, Catherine Richards, and Clarissa Rios Rojas (eds.), The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies (Open Book Publishers, 2023) https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0336
Natalie Jones, ‘Prospects for invoking the law of self-determination in
international climate litigation’ (2023) 32 RECIEL 250–258 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/reel.12494
Natalie Jones, ‘A Just Transition for Essential Workers? Workers and Climate Policy at and after COP 26’ (2023) Transnational Legal Theory https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/20414005.2023.2171346
Natalie Jones, ‘Self-Determination and the Right of Peoples to Participate in International Law-Making’ (2021) British Yearbook of International Law brab004 (advance online access)
Natalie Jones, ‘Aotearoa New Zealand and International Organizations’, in Anna Hood and An Hertogen (eds), International Law in Aotearoa New Zealand (Thomson Reuters 2021)
Simon Beard, Partha Dasgupta and Natalie Jones, ‘Population and Ethics: Difficult Questions, Global Challenges’ (2021) The Journal of Development Studies
Natalie Jones and Geert van Calster, ‘Waste Regulation’, in Emma Lees and Jorge E Viñuales (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Natalie Jones, ‘Safeguarding against Environmental Injustice: 1.5°C Scenarios, Negative Emissions, and Unintended Consequences’ (2018) 12 Carbon and Climate Law Review 23
Natalie Jones, Mark O’Brien and Thomas Ryan, ‘Representation of Future Generations in United Kingdom Policy-Making’ (2018) 102 Futures 153
Natalie Jones, ‘Wind energy and adverse visual impact litigation: a balance of local and global interests’ (2016) 6 Climate Law 336
Natalie Jones, ‘Trade in a 2030 Agenda-era: Fossil fuel subsidies and the WTO‘ (2016) 5(6) Bridges Africa 20 – in French at ‘Le commerce dans l’ère de l’Agenda 2030 : les subventions aux combustibles fossiles et l’OMC’ (2016) 17(1) Passerelles and in Russian at ‘Торговля в период до 2030 г.: субсидирование ископаемого топлива и ВТО’ (2016) 9(3) МОСТЫ.
Natalie Jones, ‘The application of global carbon budget principles to Buller Coal: a critique’ (2015) 11 Brookers Resource Management Bulletin 18
Natalie Jones, ‘The Quake Outcasts’ and the ‘Third Source’ of Government Power: Lessons for Recovery’, in Once in a Lifetime: City-building after Disaster in Christchurch (Freerange Press, 2014). Republished on Making Christchurch.
Natalie Jones, ‘Fluoridation of water in New Zealand: a raft of litigation’ [2015] New Zealand Law Journal 10
Natalie Jones, ‘Geoengineering: New Challenges for Environmental Law’ (2013) 3 NZLSJ 113
Reports, Policy Briefs, and Working Papers
Natalie Jones, Claire O’Manique, Adam McGibbon, and Kate DeAngelis. (2024). Out With the Old, Slow With the New: Countries are underdelivering on fossil-to-clean energy finance pledge. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/countries-underdelivering-fossil-clean-energy-finance-pledge
Natalie Jones, Paola Andrea Yanguas Parra, Jonas Kuehl, Shruti Sharma, and Tara Laan. (2024). Fossil Fuel Production, Renewable Energy, and Subsidy Reform in Nationally Determined Contributions 3.0: Ambition benchmarks for 1.5C alignment. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/fossil-fuel-subsidy-reform-ndc
Natalie Jones and Paola Andrea Yanguas Parra. (2024). How the Transition Away from Fossil Fuel Production Can Be Included in New Climate Commitments and Plans. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/fossil-fuel-transition-new-climate-commitments
Olivier Bois von Kursk, Vance Culbert, Megan Darby, Ivetta Gerasimchuk, Natalie Jones, Jonas Kuehl, Greg Muttitt, Angela Picciariello, Farooq Ullah, and Paola Andrea Yanguas Parra. (2024). Transitioning Away From Oil and Gas: A production phase-out primer. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/transitioning-away-from-oil-gas
Natalie Jones, Angela Picciariello and Ivetta Gerasimchuk. (2023). The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in a Changing World: Navigating the energy transition and safeguarding investors. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/adnoc-navigating-energy-transition-and-safeguarding-investors
Angela Picciariello, Natalie Jones, Joachim Roth, Romain Poivet, and Paasha Mahdavi. (2023). Assessing National Oil Companies’ Transition Plans: An essential tool for banks, investors, and regulators. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/assessing-national-oil-companies-transition-plans-tool
Natalie Jones and Bokyong Mun. (2023). Putting Promises Into Practice: Clean Energy Transition Partnership signatories’ progress on implementing clean energy commitments. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/putting-promises-into-practice-cetp-commitments
Tara Laan, Anna Geddes, Nhat Do, Laura Cameron, Siddharth Goel, and Natalie Jones. (2023). Burning Billions: Record public money for fossil fuels impeding climate action. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/burning-billions-record-fossil-fuels-support-2022
Tara Laan, Anna Geddes, Natalie Jones, Olivier Bois von Kursk, Kjell Kuhne, Livi Gerbase, Claire O’Manique, Deepak Sharma, and Lorne Stockman. (2023). Fanning the Flames: G20 provides record financial support for fossil fuels. IISD. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/fanning-flames-g20-support-of-fossil-fuels
Natalie Jones, Cleo Verkuijl, Miquel Munoz Cabre, and Georgia Piggot. (2023). Connecting the dots: mapping references to fossil fuel production in national plans under the UNFCCC for the 2023 Global Stocktake. http://doi.org/10.51414/sei2023.040
Natalie Jones, Olivier Bois von Kursk, and Louise Rouse. (2023). Financing a 1.5C-Aligned Transition: Insights from energy scenarios for financial institutions. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/financing-1.5-aligned-transition
Natalie Jones and Enrique Madereel. (2022). How the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Can Shift Millions From Fossil Fuels to Clean Energy Through the Glasgow Commitment. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/ebrd-shift-millions-fossil-fuels-clean-energy
Jennifer Allan, Natalie Jones, et al. (2022). 20 Years of the Environmental Integrity Group in Global Climate Governance: Lessons and Prospects. IISD. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/20-years-environmental-integrity-group-global-climate-governance
Jen Allan, Elsa Tsioumani, Natalie Jones, and Bernard Soubry. (2022). The State of Global Environmental Governance 2021
SEI, IISD, ODI, E3G, and UNEP. (2021). The Production Gap Report 2021.
http://productiongap.org/2021report/ (co-author of chapters 3 and 5)
Natalie Jones, Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Georgia Piggot and Michael Lazarus, ‘Tapping the potential of NDCs and LT-LEDS to address fossil fuel production‘. (2021). SEI working paper. http://doi.org/10.51414/sei2021.010
Jennifer Allan, Beate Antonich, Jennifer Bansard, Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Pamela Chasek, Natalie Jones, Faye Leone, Stefan Jungcurt, Delia Paul, Asterios Tsioumani, and Elsa Tsioumani, The State of Global Environmental Governance 2019 (IISD, February 2020)
UNEP, SEI, IISD, ODI, Climate Analytics, and CICERO, The Production Gap Report 2019 (November 2019) (co-author of Chapter 5 and research contributor to Chapter 6)
Cleo Verkuijl, Natalie Jones and Michael Lazarus, ‘Untapped ambition: addressing fossil fuel production through NDCs and LEDS’ (SEI, June 2019)
Allan, Jennifer, Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Alice Bisiaux, Pamela Chasek, Natalie Jones, Mari Luomi, Anna Schulz, Cleo Verkuijl and Bryndis Woods (eds), From Bali to Marrakech: A Decade of International Climate Negotiations (IISD 2017).
ENB Publications
In my role as a writer for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB), a trusted, timely and independent record of multilateral environmental negotiations, I have attended 20+ UN meetings and with my ENB colleagues have published over 50 Bulletins. Examples include:
Anju Sharma, Laura Bullon-Cassis, Natalie Jones, Faye Leone, and Cleo Verkuijl, Summary and Analysis of the UN General Assembly Summits Week: 23-27 September 2019 (Climate Action Summit, SDG Summit, Financing for Development Dialogue, and Small Island Developing States Pathway for Action Mid-term Review). Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Vol. 33 No. 57. 30 September 2019. http://enb.iisd.org/download/pdf/enb3357e.pdf.
Peter Doran, Laura Bullon-Cassis, and Natalie Jones. Summary and Analysis of the Second Substantive Session of the Ad Hoc Open Ended Working Group towards a Global Pact for the Environment: 18-20 March 2019. Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Vol. 35 No. 2. 22 March 2019. https://enb.iisd.org/download/pdf/enb3502e.pdf.
Jennifer Allan, Beate Antonich, Jennifer Bansard, Katherine Browne, Natalie Jones, and Mari Luomi. Summary and Analysis of the Katowice Climate Change Conference: 2-15 December 2018. Earth Negotiations Bulletin, Vol. 12 No. 747. 18 December 2018. http://enb.iisd.org/download/pdf/enb12747e.pdf.
Cleo Verkuijl, Jennifer Allan, Katherine Browne, Aaron Cosbey, and Natalie Jones. Summary and Analysis of the Bangkok Climate Change Conference: 4-9 September 2018. Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Vol. 12 No. 733. 12 September 2018. https://enb.iisd.org/download/pdf/enb12733e.pdf.
Op-eds
Natalie Jones, ‘Leaders are cutting fossil fuel finance – next comes unlocking clean energy for all’ (Climate Home News, 29 August 2024)
Natalie Jones, ‘Guest post: Nearly half of recent climate pledges plan to keep extracting fossil fuels’ (Carbon Brief, 15 June 2023)
Natalie Jones, ‘We must give the government a strong mandate for climate action‘ (Stuff.co.nz, 20 November 2019, print and web)
Natalie Jones, ‘Ban flying to UN climate talks? That’s a dangerous idea‘ (Climate Home News, 29 August 2019, web)
Cleo Verkuijl and Natalie Jones, ‘Countries must address this major Paris Agreement blind spot’ (Climate Home News, 28 June 2019, web)
Natalie Jones, ‘NZ urged ‘high ambition’ on climate in Poland. Now let’s see that at home’ (The Spinoff, 17 December 2018, web)
Blog posts (selected)
‘How the G7 Can Advance Action on Fossil Fuel Subsidies in 2025’ (IISD, 8 April 2025, with Jonas Kuehl, Ivetta Gerasimchuk, and Nhat Do) https://www.iisd.org/articles/how-g7-can-advance-action-fossil-fuel-subsidies-2025
‘FfD4 Countdown: Countries Must Eliminate All Public Financial Flows for Fossil Fuels’ (IISD, 10 April 2025) https://www.iisd.org/articles/insight/ffd4-financing-development-conference-countries-must-eliminate-all-public-financial-flows-fossil-fuels
‘Progress of, and lessons from, the Clean Energy Transition Partnership’ (Green Fiscal Policy Network, 5 November 2024) https://greenfiscalpolicy.org/blog/progress-of-and-lessons-from-the-clean-energy-transition-partnership/
‘How the UNFCCC can tackle fossil fuel subsidies at COP 28 and beyond’ (IISD, 27 November 2023, with Harro van Asselt, Jonas Kuehl, and Jakob Skovgaard) https://www.iisd.org/articles/insight/unfccc-tackle-fossil-fuel-subsidies-cop-28
‘If Not Now, When? Ambitious energy package is a must at COP 28’ (IISD, 20 November 2023) https://www.iisd.org/articles/insight/cop-28-energy-transition-expectations
‘Four ways the G7 can show leadership on fossil fuel phase-out‘ (IISD, 13 April 2023)
‘Paris-aligned or Paris-misaligned? Fossil fuel financing under the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Paris Alignment methodology’ (IISD, 21 March 2023) https://www.iisd.org/articles/policy-analysis/paris-aligned-or-paris-misaligned-ebrd
‘Representing future generations: Why politics needs to look beyond the short term’ (In the Long Run, 31 October 2017)
‘Good News and Bad News: The Low Down on the Outcomes of the COP 19 Climate Change Conference’ (YouthPolicy.org, 30 November 2013)
‘On Equity. (Or, why the UNFCCC process is fundamentally messed up.)’ (AYLI, 19 November 2013)
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