Annika Reynolds (them/them) is a leading environmental and climate law researcher with a special focus on government environmental decision-making practices and environmental rights. As a Visiting Fellow, Annika is undertaking research into how rights of nature can be integrated into environmental decision-making and environmental impact assessment processes.
They are a Climate Policy Advisor for the international energy think tank, Ember and a Member of the ANU Fenner School's Research Hub on Gender, Human Rights and Climate Change. They advise governments and major not-for-profits on environmental and planning law, and climate regulation.
They maintain close ties to the ANU College of Law as the executive director of GreenLaw, a youth-led legal research institute tackling the climate crisis, which jointly manages the ANU Greenhub with the Law Reform and Social Justice Program. ANU Greenhub provides training and opportunities for law students to contribute to novel climate law reform across Australia and internationally.
Significant research publications
- Annika Reynolds, "Conservation After the Fact: The prevalence of post-approval condition-setting in environmental impact assessment processes in Australia and its implications for achieving ecologically sustainable development outcomes" (2023) 99 Environmental Impact Assessment Review 107032
- Annika Reynolds, "A Coloniser's View: On Healing and Native Title Reform" (2022) Alternative Law Journal 47(4) 291.
- Andrew Ray, Annika Reynolds and Heather Roberts, "Youth activists, climate conscious lawyering and environmental policy: parliamentary submissions in legal education" (2022) 12 IUCN Australian Environmental Law Journal 90
- Annika Reynolds and Peta Bulling, "Renewable energy to fulfil our human rights: the Australian Capital Territory's potential to lead the nation" (2021) 36(4) Australian Environment Review 83
- Annika Reynolds, Andrew Ray and Shelby O'Connor, "Green Lawfare: Does the Evidence Match the Allegations? An Empirical Evaluation of Public Interest Litigation under the EPBC Act from 2009-2019" (2020) 37 Environmental and Planning Law Journal 497
