Bio: Leehi Yona is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, specializing in environmental and climate change law. Her research focuses on legal frameworks for greenhouse gas accounting, climate justice, and regulatory strategies for transformative environmental governance.

Professor Yona’s research examines interdisciplinary approaches to greenhouse gas accounting, addressing the challenges and gaps in current climate laws and policies and exploring ways to improve them. Her research has been published in leading journals such as the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Nature, Nature Sustainability, and the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy.

Yona holds an A.B. in Environmental Studies and Biological Sciences from Dartmouth College, a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

This event is presented as part of the 2026 Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge Seminar Series:

• Most Mondays, Spring Semester 2026, 2:55-4:10 p.m.
• Zoom Link TBA

This university-wide seminar series is open to the public (via Zoom), and provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview of the science of climate change and climate change models, the implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and food systems, and provide important economic, ethical, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.