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 with strong presence in GEP Special Issue on ETS
08.08.2017
The most recent issue of the Global Environmental Politics (GEP) journal focuses on the design and diffusion of greenhouse gas emissions trading systems (ETS). Several of the articles are outcomes of FNI's ETS Diffusion project.
FNI wins prize: best European think tank on energy and environment
10.07.2017
In what has been labelled 'the Oscars of think tanks', the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) has been awarded the prize for “best European think tank” in the field of energy and environment.
FNI nominated for think tank awards
05.07.2017
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute has - once again - been nominated as best European think tank of the year. This year, the institute is nominated in not only one, but in two separate research categories: energy and environment, and international affairs.

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FNI IN MEDIA

Arctic Expert explains the complexities of Norway’s High North politics
High North News. 16.8.2017.
Setter Russland på dagsorden ('Puts Russia on the agenda')
Kyst og Fjord. 14.8.2017. In Norwegian.
Fiskerisamarbeid valgkamptema ('Fisheries cooperation becomes subject for election campaign')
Fiskeribladet. 14.8.2017. In Norwegian.

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

A Global Turn to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading? Experimentts, Actors and Diffusion

Katja Biedenkopf, Patrick Mueller, Peter Sloiminski and Jørgen Wettestad

Global Environmental Politics, Vol 17, No 3, 2017, pp. 1-11.
Why Does Canada Have So Many Unresolved Maritime Boundary Disputes?

Michael Byers and Andreas Østhagen

Canadian Yearbook of International Law, published online 11.08.2017, 62 p. DOI: 10.1017/cyl.2017.14
Designing New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme

Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Ian Bailey and Nichola Harmer

Global Environmental Politics, Vol 17, No 3, 2017, pp. 31-50
Arctic Coast Guard Forum: Big tasks, Small solutions

Andreas Østhagen

In S. Bruns and A.J. Neumann (eds), Maritime Security Challenges: Focus High North. Papers from the Kiel Conference 2016. Kiel, Institute for Security Policy, Kiel University, 2017, pp 3-8.
The European Commission’s Shifting Climate Leadership

Jon Birger Skjærseth

Global Environmental Politics, Vol 17, No 2, 2017, pp. 84-104.
Uhyre spennende og prinsippiell dom ('Highly interesting and principled court decision')

Harald Sakarias Brøvig Hansen

Fiskeribladet Fiskaren. 22.6.2017. In Norwegian.
Shipping on the Northern Sea Route

Arild Moe

Port Technology, Edition 74, 2017, pp. 30-32.