Updated publications are also available on Google Scholar and SSRN. Links to article PDFs in the title.

Works in Progress

• Yona, L. (Working Draft). ”Emissions Omissions.” Winner, Olaus and Adolph Murie Award for Environmental Law at Stanford Law School.

Publications

• Yona, L. (2023). ”Confronting Unaccounted-for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Stockton, California.” Environmental Law News. Winner, California Bar Association Environmental Law Student Competition.

• Luers, A., Yona, L., Field, C. B., Jackson, R. B., Mach, K. J., Cashore, B. W., Elliott, C., Gifford, L. Honigsberg, C., Klaassen, L., Mathews, D., Peng, A., Stoll, C., Van Pelt, M., Virginia, R. A., Joppa, L. (2022). ”How To Make Greenhouse Gas Accounting Reliable – Interoperable Emission Ledgers.” Nature.

• Yona, L., Cashore, B., and Bradford, M. A. (2022). “Factors Influencing the Development and Implementation of National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Methodologies.” Policy Design and Practice.

• Ramaswami, A., Tong, K.K., Canadell, J.G., Jackson, R.B., Stokes, E., Dhakal, S., Finch, M., Jittrapirom, P., Singh, N., Yamagata, Y., Yewdall, E., Yona, L., and Seto, K. (2021). “Carbon analytics for net-zero emissions sustainable cities.” Nature Sustainability.

• Yona, L., Dixon, M., Howarth, R. B., Kapuscinski, A. R., and Virginia, R. A. (2020). “Applying a Leverage Points Framework to the United Nations Climate Negotiations: The (Dis)Empowerment of Youth Participants.” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.

• Yona, L., Cashore, B., Jackson, R. B., Ometto, J., and Bradford, M. A. (2020). “Refining National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.” Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01312-9.
  ** Selected as lead article for Ambio’s October 2020 issue **

• Yona, L., Cashore, B., and Schmitz, O. (2019). “Integrating Policy and Ecology Systems to Achieve Path Dependent Climate Solutions.” Environmental Science & Policy 98: 54–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.03.013.

• Sarson, L., Muzik, V., Ray, B., Gambrell, G., Yona, L., and Comeau, R. (2019). “The Model Arctic Council: Simulated negotiations as pedagogy and embodied diplomacy.” American Review of Canadian Studies. 

• Stephens, J. C., Frumhoff, P., and Yona, L. (2018). “The role of college and university faculty in the fossil fuel divestment movement.” Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 

• Yona, L., and Lenferna, A. (2016). Fossil fuel divestment movement within universities. In Environment, Climate Change, and International Relations: Tendencies, Assessments, and Perspectives. Ed. Atkins, E. E-International Relations, London, United Kingdom.