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

'Hat trick' for FNI: wins prestigious Think Tank Award third year in a row
17.07.2019
For the third year in a row, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) has won the prestigious Prospect Think Tank Award. This year, the institute took home the prize as the best European think tank on energy, environment, science and health.
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.