Spotlight on... Yaroslav Melekh

Yaroslav Melekh This week we meet Yaroslav Melekh, Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources and a member of UCL's COP28 team. Here, Yaroslav talks to us about his research on the green transition and debunking the myth of 'burden-sharing'. What is your role and what does it involve? . I'm a Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Resources, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources. Currently, I work primarily on the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition ( EEIST ) project that sits on a research-policy nexus and focuses on new economic thinking (NET) directed towards the green transition in the UK and emerging economies of Brazil, China, and India. In part, the idea is to provide research evidence that the green transition is not necessarily expensive if the appropriate economic metrics are applied, and so to deconstruct the myth of 'burden-sharing' - and this is part of the reason I'm going to COP this year. In this project, I've recently taught Risk-Opportunity Analysis (ROA) and led workshops for academia and policymakers in the above-mentioned countries, including civil servants in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).