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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String of new FNI projects

LATEST FNI NEWS

Community seed banks: hubs for growing genetic diversity
21.01.2019
The final congress of the European research collaboration DIVERSIFOOD was held in Rennes, France on 10-12 December 2018. FNI presented key findings on the growing prevalence and importance of community seed banks both in Europe and the Global South.
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.

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FNI IN MEDIA

Forskere samarbeider om en mer treffsikker klimapolitikk ('Researchers join forces for a more effective climate policy')
Forskning.no, 22.1.2019. In Norwegian.
Norway summons additional judges to rule on EU snow crab war
Ghana Nation, 18.1.2019.
Norway summons extra judges to rule on EU snow crab war
Radio France International, 18.1.2019.

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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

China’s Development of ETS as a GHG Mitigating Policy Tool: A Case of Policy Diffusion or Domestic Drivers?

Gørild Heggelund, Iselin Stensdal, Maosheng Duan and Jørgen Wettestad

Review of Policy Research, published online 23.01.2019, 27 pp. DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12328
Asian Countries and Arctic Shipping: Policies, Interests and Footprints on Governance

Arild Moe and Olav Schram Stokke

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol 10, 2019, pp. 24-52.
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.