OUR RESEARCH AREAS

Global environmental governance and law
- The efficiency of UN environmental organs
- Linkages between international environmental agreements
- Theoretical studies: Regime theory, institutional design and effectiveness
- International environmental law
Climate change
- International climate negotiations, within and outside the UN
- Climate policies and domestic climate politics of key actors, including the EU, China, Russia and USA
- Climate-related energy policy
- Climate change adaptation capacity and policies
Law of the Sea and marine affairs
- Law of the Sea and maritime jurisdiction
- Regional marine issues (incl. Arctic, Barents Sea, NE Atlantic, Antarctica and Adriatic)
- Maritime transport and environmental protection
- Marine pollution and ballast water issues
- International management of fisheries and whaling
- Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing
Biodiversity and genetic resources
- International agreements on biodiversity: Negotiations and implementation
- Biotechnology and biosafety
- Interacting regimes: Access to genetic resources versus patent legislation; bioprospecting
- Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; farmers' rights
- Forest politics and certification (ecolabelling)
- Sustainable aquaculture
Polar and Russian politics
- Norwegian-Russian relations in the High North (environment, energy, fisheries, health, security and jurisdiction
- Environmental and resource management policies of Russia and other post-Soviet states
- Political and economical framework for Russian oil and gas industry
- Regional politics of the Russian North
- International cooperation in the Arctic
European energy and environment
- EU climate change policy and greenhouse gas emissions trading
- Cooperation on transboundary pollution, marine issues and biodiversity
- European energy markets and policies
- Energy technology policy
- Corporate social responsibility
Chinese energy and environment
- Climate policies
- Dam building, resettlement and water management
- Energy policies
- Environmental bureaucracy and law
- Arctic policies

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LATEST FNI NEWS

FNI nominated for think tank award
18.06.2019
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) has once again been nominated as Europe’s best think tank on energy and environment issues. This is the fourth time in a row the institute is nominated in what has been labelled ‘the Oscars of think tanks’.
FNI strengthens its cooperation with Korea Maritime Institute
13.06.2019
Following years of constructive dialogue, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) and the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI) has signed a new declaration of research cooperation, formalizing and reinforcing the two institutions’ already productive relationship.
The rise of Climate Change Acts: a game-changer in Climate Governance?
06.06.2019
Are the dynamics of climate change politics changing, or is the Nation State still the key player? What role will climate laws play in national climate governance?

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FNI IN MEDIA

Utredninger fra 90-tallet gir utbygginger i dag ('Asessments from the 90's basis for today's windpower development')
Harvest Magazine, 23.6.2019. In Norwegian.
- Det som skiller Norge fra Danmark og andre land er at vindkraftparkene er store og at de bygges i urørt natur og kuppert terreng ('- What separates Norway from Denmark and other countries is that the wind farms are large and that they are built in pristine and mountainous areas')
EnerWE, 18.6.2019. In Norwegian.
L’Arctique, champ de bataille entre Chine, Russie et États-Unis ('The Arctic battlefield between China, Russia and the United States')
Slate Magazine, 16.6.2019. In French.

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Clean Energy Package (CEP): Compromise on Provisions for Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms

Leigh Hancher, Per Ove Eikeland and Berit Tennbakk

REMAP Insight report no. 5 - 2019. Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Thema Consulting Group.
A formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts

Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N Waters, Martin J Head, Clément Poirier, Colin P Summerhayes, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jacques Grinevald, Will Steffen, Jaia Syvitski, Peter Haff, John R McNeill, Michael Wagreich, Ian J Fairchild, Daniel D Richter, Davor Vidas, Mark Williams, Anthony D Barnosky and Alejandro Cearreta

Progress in Physical Geography, Vol 43, No 3, 2019, pp. 319-333.
Creative and disruptive elements in Norway´s climate policy mix: The small-state perspective

Stefan Cetkovic and Jon Birger Skjærseth

Environmental Politics, published online 02.06.2019, 22 p. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2019.1625145
Defining Seaward Boundaries in a Domestic Context: Norway and the Svalbard Archipelago

Øystein Jensen

Ocean Development and International Law, published online 23.03.2019. DOI: 10.1080/00908320.2019.1582669
Trump i våre nordområder? ('Trump in our backyard?')

Andreas Østhagen

High North News, 11.6.2019. In Norwegian.
Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans submitted: Substantial changes should be expected in final plans

REMAP Insight nr. 4 - 2019. Thema Consulting Group and Fridtjof Nansen Institute.
Clean Energy Package – The battle on bidding zones and cross-zonal capacity allocation

REMAP Insight nr. 3 - 2019. Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Thema Consulting Group.