Updated publications are also available on Google Scholar and SSRN. Links to article PDFs in the title.
Publications
Yona, L. (Forthcoming 2026). “Climate Injustice, Off the Books.” UCLA Law Review.
Yona, L. (Forthcoming 2025). “Democracy in the Air: Discounted Emissions, Discounted Communities. Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy (Symposium Piece).
Yona, L. (Forthcoming 2025). ”Emissions Omissions: Greenhouse Gas Accounting Gaps.” Harvard Environmental Law Review. Winner, Olaus and Adolph Murie Award for Environmental Law at Stanford Law School.
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.