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Research Professor+47 97690518
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Deputy Director / Research Director Climate and Energy+47 97540217
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Research Professor+47 47477405
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Senior Researcher+47 47476508
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Research Professor+47 92290372
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Research Director, Biodiversity and Natural Resources+47 95118037
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Researcher+47 99716657
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Researcher+47 97303118
FNI research focuses on international efforts to ensure conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and fair distribution of benefits from genetic resources. Interaction with trade agreements and intellectual property rights is central.
International environmental agreements on biological diversity seek to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and a fair distribution of benefits derived from genetic resources. FNI research is aimed at international processes with ramifications for these objectives, including interaction with international agreements on trade and agriculture. Central to this work is the interaction between regimes for access & benefit-sharing (ABS) from use of genetic resources and legislation on intellectual property rights to biological material.
Research is carried out with regard to the management of wild as well as domesticated genetic resources in agriculture and aquaculture. Both the CBD and the FAO Plant Treaty (ITPGRFA) are central to this work and the implementation as well as the interaction between them constitutes central topics of research.
The regulation of bioprospecting, GMOs and invasive alien species, and policy and law for the management of protected areas, are other central topics.
FNI also researches international forest politics, forest management and certification (ecolabelling). Central topics include the evolution of international forest policies and non-state certification schemes, as well as the interactions between public and private authorities in addressing such issues as protected areas, carbon sequestration in forests, illegal logging, and forest law enforcement, governance and trade.
RESEARCHERS
PROJECTS
BOOKS
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
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Chapter 5 in Niels Krabbe and David Langlet (eds), Marine Bioprospecting, Biodiversity and Novel Uses of Ocean Resources: New Approaches in International Law. Bloomsbury, 2024.
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Aquaculture International, published online 31.08.2023, 17 p. DOI: 10.1007/s10499-023-01270-w
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Food Security, published online 17.06.2023, 22 p. DOI: 10.1007/s12571-023-01374-4
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Journal of Fish Biology, published online 06.06.2023, 24 p. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15470
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Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, Vol 54, No 2, 2023, pp. 364-396.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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FNI Policy Brief 1/2024. Lysaker, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, January 2024, 6 p.
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Rome, Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO, 6 p.
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Dagens Næringsliv, August 14, 2023. In Norwegian.
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Kommunal rapport, June 2, 2023. In Norwegian.
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Altinget.no, May 24, 2023. In Norwegian.
IN MEDIA
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NRK-funn om naturen: – Kan vise brot på Grunnlova (NRK Findings on Nature: Possible Breaches of the Constitution)
NRK, 23 January 2024. In Norwegian.
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Polacy kupują go na potęgę. Nie mają pojęcia, co jedzą (Poles buy it in droves. They have no idea what they're eating)
Witualna Polska (WP), 19 January, 2024. In Polish.
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Canada’s Limits on Sea Lice in Salmon Farms Don’t Measure Up
Hakai Magazine, December 7, 2023.
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Of Cod & Country
The Catch, Foreign Policy (podcast), December 5, 2023.
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Staten vil forby å byggje i myr (Government Proposes Ban on Construction in Wetlands)
NRK Vestland, December 4, 2023. In Norwegian.