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

The International Whaling Commission reviewed
20.04.2018
As part of an expert panel of three, FNI Senior Policy Analyst Christian Prip has spent the past year conducting a review of the International Whaling Commission. The final report is now completed and made available for the public.
FNI at ISA's Annual Convention
12.04.2018
Several FNI researchers attended the 59th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), this year held in San Francisco, California.
Will structural changes in China’s bureaucracy save the environment?
20.03.2018
The annual National People’s Congress (NPC), held on 5–20 March 2018, announced significant structural changes to the State Council ministries to make the system more efficient.

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FNI IN MEDIA

Yamal LNG carrier Boris Vilkitsky in gross violation of safety rules on NSR
High North News. 19.4.18.
Mandalitt ny styreleder i NFFO ('Mandalitt new chairman of NFFO')
Lindesnes. 10.4.18. In Norwegian.
Han er NFFOs nye styreleder ('He is NFFO's new chairman')
Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening. 8.4.18. In Norwegian.

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

The Arctic Council - a need for reform

Svein Vigeland Rottem

The Circle (WWF Magazine). 05.04.18.
Crabtacular! Snow crabs on their march from Svalbard to Brussels

Andreas Østhagen and Andreas Raspotnik

High North News. 03.04.18.
Arctic petroleum: local CSR perceptions in the Nenets region of Russia

Julia S.P. Loe, Ilan Kelman, Daniel B. Fjærtoft and Nina Poussenkova

Social Responsibility Journal, Vol 13, No 2, 2017, pp. 307-322
Farmers' Rights

Regine Andersen

Paris, DIVERSIFOOD, Innovation Fact Sheets, No 9, 2017, 2 p.
Implementing EU Climate and Energy Policies in Poland: Policy Feedback and Reform

Jon Birger Skjærseth

Environmental Politics, Vol 27, No 3, 2018, pp. 498-518
Demonstrating climate mitigation technologies: An early assessment of the NER 300 programme

Max Åhman, Jon Birger Skjærseth and Per Ove Eikeland

Energy Policy, Vol 117, 2018, pp. 100-107
Unitization of petroleum fields in the Barents Sea: Towards a common understanding?

Daniel Fjærtoft, Arild Moe, Natalia Smirnova, Alexey Cherepovitsyn

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol 9, March 2018, pp. 72-96

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New book: The EU and the geopolitics of the Arctic

Top position for FNI in new publication ranking

Once again, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) ranks as the number one most publishing independent research institute in Norway.

Fridtjof Nansen and Polhøgda

FNI seeks Master's students (Information in Norwegian)

FNI researcher selected for UN Climate Panel

FNI researcher Jørgen Wettestad has been selected to participate as a Lead Author for the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

China releases first ever Arctic policy

According to the white paper, China aims to promote peace and security in the Arctic, while conforming to the international rules of the game – above all the Law of the Sea.

The Evolution of Carbon Markets: Design and Diffusion

Jørgen Wettestad and Lars H.Gulbrandsen (eds)

London/New York, Routledge, 2018, 262 p.
The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic

Andreas Raspotnik

Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2018, 240 p.
Drafting Successful Access and Benefit-sharing Contracts

Tomme Rosanne Young and Morten Walløe Tvedt

Leiden (the Netherlands), Brill, 2017, 420 p.

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