Han­nah El­li­ott

En­vir­on­ment­al Mari­time Gov­ernance in Kenya (2022-2026, Prin­ciple In­vest­ig­at­or: René Taud­al Poulsen) is fun­ded by the Dan­ida Fel­low­ship Centre and car­ried out by a con­sor­ti­um of re­search­ers and prac­ti­tion­ers at CBS, the Uni­ver­sity of Nairobi, and the In­sti­tute for Law and En­vir­on­ment­al Gov­ernance, Kenya. The pro­ject stud­ies Kenya’s en­gage­ment in the in­ter­na­tion­al agenda to de­car­bon­ize ship­ping by ex­amin­ing Kenya’s par­ti­cip­a­tion in the In­ter­na­tion­al Mari­time Or­gan­iz­a­tion’s green­house gas (GHG) re­duc­tion ne­go­ti­ations and Kenya’s im­ple­ment­a­tion and en­force­ment of in­ter­na­tion­al reg­u­lat­ory meas­ures to ad­dress GHG emis­sions from ships at the na­tion­al level.

Sus­tain­abil­ity’s In­fra­struc­ture (2018-2022, Prin­ciple In­vest­ig­at­or: Mar­tin Skrydstrup) was fun­ded by the In­de­pend­ent Re­search Fund Den­mark and ex­amined the cer­ti­fic­a­tion, pro­duc­tion and trade of cer­ti­fied sus­tain­able Kenyan tea. The­or­et­ic­ally, SUSTEIN sought to go­ bey­ond the idea of glob­al value chain by way of de­ploy­ing the concept of in­fra­struc­ture, al­low­ing us to bet­ter com­pre­hend the re­curs­ive loops and con­tin­gent causes and ef­fects in glob­al value chains. SUSTEIN ad­dressed the fol­low­ing ques­tions: A) How does cer­ti­fic­a­tion shape agrari­an pro­duc­tion in the form of cul­tiv­a­tion and fact­ory pro­cessing? Who be­ne­fits from which sustain­ability stand­ards? B) How does cer­ti­fic­a­tion in­flu­ence the valu­ation of tea, as­sessed in terms of taste, grade and price? How is the value of cer­ti­fic­a­tion per­formed and cap­it­al­ized? C) How do cor­por­ate pro­fes­sion­als and in­de­pend­ent aud­it­ors dis­tin­guish between "sus­tain­able/un­sus­tain­able"? What lines of evid­ence are re­cog­nized?