Nicola Sharman is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland. Currently, she is a Visiting Fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability, Potsdam. She is part of the 2035Legitimacy project, an interdisciplinary project funded by the Academy of Finland’s Strategic Research Council, which aims to assess the fairness and legitimacy dimensions of Finland’s climate policy. She also has a background in legal practice.