Emma, originally from Barcelona, is a third-year student in the BA International Studies at Leiden University. She is currently the Student Ambassador for her degree. Her research focuses on international law, human rights, and environmental issues. She has earned awards at Harvard and IE University Model United Nations conferences and gained diplomatic experience as an intern in the Embassy of Chile of the Netherlands.
Without adequate risk-sharing mechanisms, insurers respond defensively by increasing premiums, tightening coverage, limiting availability or withdrawing from high-risk markets as they need to preserve solvency. Therefore, if private coverage recedes, households and businesses face an availability…
How do governance failures and land conflicts in Indonesia’s palm oil sector contribute to broader climate security risks? Weak legal frameworks and export-driven growth enable corporate control and elite rent-seeking. As a result, land conflicts, labour exploitation, and environmental degradatio…
How does China’s dominance in critical minerals and clean-tech manufacturing reshape global power in the energy transition? This brief argues that China’s control across the entire mineral-to-technology supply chain creates asymmetric dependencies that influence national climate strategies and cr…
