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

Vesterålen, Norway. Photo: Peter Prokosch, Grid Arendal

Launches new bio-network

Shanghai delegation at FNI

String of new Arctic books

LATEST FNI NEWS

Science and business in the limelight
18.10.2017
The impact of science and business in Arctic environmental politics is an important but understudied field. Fortunately, NUPI and FNI recently presented the first findings of a joint project addressing this puzzle.
High-ranking Shanghai delegation at FNI
28.09.2017
With the shared goal of reducing carbon emissions, a delegation from Shanghai and Norwegian experts recently met for a climate and energy roundtable at FNI.
Can teamwork yield better crops?
25.09.2017
Practicing participatory approaches to plant breeding can help bring about promising new crops for food production - and thus help meet farmers’ and consumers’ needs at the same time.

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FNI IN MEDIA

Новая эпоха судоходства по Северному морскому пути (A new era of navigation along the Northern Sea Route)
vch.ru. 16.10.2017. In Russian.
Nornickel lowers smelting at Kola, for environmental reasons
The Independent Barents Observer. 4.10.2017.
Svalbard-krigstrusler trolig propaganda (Svalbard war threats probably propaganda)
Aldrimer.no. 5.10.2017. In Norwegian.

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Partners or Rivals? Norway and the European Union in the High North

Andreas Østhagen and Andreas Raspotnik

In Nengye Liu, Elizabeth A. Kirk, and Tore Henriksen (eds): The European Union and the Arctic. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2017, pp. 97-119.
The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Colin P. Summerhayes, Alexander P. Wolfe, Anthony D. Barnosky, Alejandro Cearreta, Paul Crutzen, Erle Ellis, Ian J. Fairchild, Agnieszka Gałuszka, Peter Haff, Irka Hajdas, Martin J. Head, Juliana A. Assunção Ivar do Sul, Catherine Jeandel, Reinhold Leinfelder, John R. McNeill, Cath Neal, Eric Odada, Naomi Oreskes, Will Steffen, James Syvitski, Davor Vidas, Michael Wagreich and Mark Williams

Anthropocene, Vol 19, September 2017, pp 56-60.
The Future of Russian Gas Exports

Finn Roar Aune, Rolf Golombek, Arild Moe, Knut Einar Rosendahl, and Hilde Hallre Le Tissier

Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, Vol 6, No 2, 2017, pp. 111-134.
Seizing policy windows: Policy Influence of climate advocacy coalitions in Brazil, China, and India, 2000-2015

Solveig Aamodt and Iselin Stensdal

Global Environmental Change, Vol 46, September 2017, pp. 114-125
Nordlands rolle i nordområdene? ('Nordland's role in the High North?')

Andreas Østhagen and Frode Mellemvik

High North News. 6.9.2017. In Norwegian.
California's cap-and trade system: Diffusion and lessons

Guri Bang, David Victor and Steinar Andresen

Global Environmental Politics, Vol 17, No 3, 2017, pp. 12-30.
Integrating Earth Observation Systems and International Environmental Regimes

Olav Schram Stokke and Oran R. Young

In M. Onoda and O.R. Young (eds), Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy. New York, Springer, 2017, pp. 179-203.