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)
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 hits the jackpot in research funding bid
09.01.2019
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) is starting the new year with a bang – having secured an impressive string of new projects in its research portfolio. Some are record-breaking, all are timely, and all reflect FNI’s core areas of expertise.
FNI part of historic research venture: Designing climate policies for the future
20.12.2018
FNI is taking part in Norway’s biggest social science research project ever endeavoured. The goal? To help policymakers make better informed climate policy choices – and to help Norway reach its emission targets for 2030 and 2050.
New PhD: The puzzle of Gazprom
18.12.2018
Gazprom’s behaviour can sometimes seem irrational to Western eyes. In her recent PhD thesis, FNI researcher Julia S. P. Loe sheds important explanatory light on the Russian energy giant.

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FNI IN MEDIA

Norway Supreme Court to hear snow crab case with implication for oil
Dailymail.co.uk, 15.1.2019.
Norway Supreme Court to hear snow crab case with implication for oil
Reuters, 15.1.2019.
Rusland ruikt kansen in Arctisch gebied ('Russia smells opportunities in the Arctic')
Nrc.nl, 10.1.2019. In Dutch.

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Arctic protection can’t wait for global treaty

Vito De Lucia, Raul Primicerio, Christian Prip and Kristine Dalaker Kraabel.

Nature. Correspondence, in 565, 161 (2019).
Etter COP24: Tar Kina ledelsen på klima? ('After COP24: Can China take the lead on climate?')

Gørild Heggelund

Energi og Klima. 20.12.2018. In Norwegian.
Tar Kina ledelsen på klima? ('Will China take the lead on climate?')

Gørild Heggelund

Attac blogpost. 18.12.2018. In Norwegian.
Norms and flexibility: Comparing two mitigation policies implemented in Shanghai

Iselin Stensdal

Environmental Science and Policy, Vol 92, 2019, pp. 281-288
The Utility of Formalisation of the Anthropocene for Science

D. Vidas, J. Zalasiewicz, W. Steffen, T. Hancock, A. Barnosky, C. Summerhayes and C. Waters

In J. Zalasiewicz, C. Waters, M. Williams and C. Summerhayes (eds), The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 31-40.
EU Geoeconomics: A Framework for Analyzing Bilateral Relations in the European Union

Thomas Sattich and Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg

Journal of Common Market Studies, published online 11.12.2018. 13 p.
Oil and power industries’ responses to EU emissions trading: Laggards or low-carbon leaders?

Per Ove Eikeland and Jon Birger Skjærseth

Environmental Politics, Vol 28, No 1, 2019, pp. 104-124.