Rachel Ardiff is an Associate of Oxford Net Zero and previously worked as an Honorary Research Associate of ONZ and the Sustainable Law Programme. She is a Policy and Legal Research Officer with the Carbon Balance Initiative, examining the implementation of regulatory mandates on high-emitting industries and climate justice approaches to CCS implementation.

Rachel graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), where she completed a dissertation in international environmental law, looking at the Nordhaus climate club with a Carbon Takeback Obligation. She was awarded the Iveagh Fellowship in 2023 by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Saothar. Her research focuses on strengthening supply-side and upstream climate policy mechanisms. She is completing an MSc as a George Moore Scholar in Environmental Policy and Regulation in the London School of Economics, where she will continue working examining climate justice approaches to CCS and the implementation of producer accountability mechanisms for fossil fuel companies.