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

A changing Coast Guard?

Photo: Ministère de lʼEnseignement supérieur

Award to research project

Energy poverty - in Norway?

LATEST FNI NEWS

Svalbard, EU and the green transition: New research projects awarded to FNI
13.12.2019
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) has received funding for three large, multi-partner research projects: one on Norway's 'green transition', one on EU energy market regulations, and one focusing on new economic possibilities on Svalbard.
Research award to crop diversity project
12.12.2019
The EU Horizon 2020 project DIVERSIFOOD, to which FNI has been a contributing partner, has been awarded a 2019 Etoiles d’Europe – Stars of Europe – award.
With changing ocean politics, a new role for the Coast Guard
06.12.2019
With rapid changes underway in the Arctic and in the oceans more generally, national coast guard services are becoming a more important tool for states, both symbolically and functionally.

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FNI IN MEDIA

Arktischer Suezkanal - Der Traum von der Abkürzung durchs Eismeer ('Arctic Suez Canal - The dream of a short cut through the Arctic Ocean')
The World News, 11.12.2019. In German.
Što dalje, nakon današnjeg mišljenja da sud EU nije nadležan za arbitražu? ('What next, after today's opinion that the EU court has no jurisdiction to arbitrate?')
Telegram, 11.12.2019. In Croatian.
Konkurrenz im Nordpolarmeer ('A race in the Arctic Ocean')
Die Welt, 6.12.2019. In German.

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Grønt må også være rettferdig ('Green should also be fair')

Tanja Winther, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Ole Smørdal, Per Gunnar Røe, Hege Westskog and Vebjørn Bakken

Forskning.no, 13.12.2019.
Sustainable development

Gørild Heggelund

In Andreas Bøje Forsby (ed), Nordic-China Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities. NIAS Reports, No. 52, 2019, pp. 33-39
How Arctic Science Travels: POPs, Norway and the Stockholm Convention

Svein Vigeland Rottem

In Svein Vigeland Rottem and Ida Folkestad Soltvedt (eds), Arctic Governance: Norway Russia and Asia. Volume 3. I.B. Tauris, 2019, pp. 40-63.
Actors, Strategies and Networks in a New Bipolar Geopolitical Research- and Policy Agenda: The Case of Norway

Svein Vigeland Rottem and Leif Christian Jensen

In Svein Vigeland Rottem and Ida Folkestad Soltvedt (eds), Arctic Governance: Norway Russia and Asia. Volume 3. I.B. Tauris, 2019, pp. 40-63.
The good, the bad, or the ugly? Corporate strategies, size and environmental regulation in the fish-farming industry

Irja Vormedal and Jon Birger Skjærseth

Business and Politics, published online 22.11.2019, 29 p. DOI: 10.1017/bap.2019.30
China and Arctic Shipping: Policies, Interests and Engagement

Arild Moe and Olav Schram Stokke

China in World and Regional Politics, Vol 24, 2019, pp. 257-278.
Management Options for High Seas Fisheries: Making Regime Complexes More Effective

Olav Schram Stokke

In Richard Caddell and Erik J. Molenaar (eds), Strengthening International Fisheries Law in an Era of Changing Oceans. Hart Publishing, 2019, pp. 51-78.