Environment Working Group
As sustainability challenges arise with instability around the globe and rising climate change and emissions effects are more and more noticeable, the Working Group on Environment wishes to bring clarity to environmental topics at the European level. Our initial scope of research will englobe policies that can bring the EU to a net-zero state and ensure a sustainable future: urban governance and sustainability, Just Transition, economic tools like carbon taxes and ETS, and strong environmental law that gives juridical personhood to natural ecosystems (e.g ecocide). This areas are multidisciplinary and a possible bridge between Working Groups, aiming to produce research in partnerships with them.
Lastly, we wish to develop EST events for key EU weeks (EU Week of Regions and Cities, EU Energy Week, EU Green Week, etc.) and partner organisations.
Lucie Martinez – Head of the Working Group

Lucie Martinez is a French master’s student in European Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Copenhagen and Heidelberg University. With an academic background in European Political Science, with previous internships at the Senate and within private-sector, she has been actively involved in various student initiatives and civic engagements.
Her commitment to environmental justice began when she served as a UNICEF Young Ambassador. She became acutely aware of the profound inequalities intensified by climate change, particularly its disproportionate impact on already vulnerable communities. Her commitment continued throughout her undergraduate studies (eco-responsible association ACT). She currently contributes to climate and biodiversity policy writing as a Project Officer at Generation Climate Europe.
Motivated by the pressing nature of contemporary environmental crises, Lucie is dedicated to advancing research at the intersection of international governance and social justice.
Fun fact: she enjoys discussing with new people
Elyne Fabing – Deputy Head of the Working Group
Maximiliaan Paarlberg

Maximiliaan is currently working in the international drinking water sector for the biggest drinking water organisation of the Netherlands. He previously graduated from a BSc in Political Science at Leiden University, a Master’s in European Integration and Global Studies at Centre International de Formation Européenne and a MSc in European and International Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His main areas of study have been the Middle East, Africa and the European Union.
He is from the Netherlands but he has lived in Berlin, Nice, Istanbul and Brussels. His main focus is on the interplay between the environment and geopolitics. He also writes about matters related to water management, WASH and SDG6.
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