A plea to extend the Polar Code was this week rejected in an International Maritime Organization (IMO) sub-committee meeting, making the road ahead steeper for those advocating tighter environmental regulations in the Polar Regions.

The EU Parliament has voted for a more ambitious post-2020 emissions trading system (ETS). However, major reform proposals were also rejected – and tough negotiations still remain.

The independent social science institutes in Norway are both productive and relevant, according to a recent evaluation. The report praises the Fridtjof Nansen Institute for its prestigious scientific publications, its strategic importance and its high level of policy relevance.

The Ministry of Climate and Environment has asked FNI research professor Ole Kristian Fauchald to study the legal ramifications of Norway’s current approach to wolf management.

As Finland gets ready to assume the chairmanship of the Arctic Council this spring, it must bear in mind the need for reform and new thinking.

A dispute between Norway and the EU on commercial fishing rights to snow crab has escalated significantly, challenging Norway’s current Svalbard policy.

A large, new marine reserve in the Arctic Ocean – is it at all foreseeable? What would be the consequences for the Arctic states that control most of these waters today? FNI researchers will find these issues, and many more, on the agenda at this year’s Arctic Frontiers conference.

Salmon farming is a booming business in Norway and both the business and public authorities want expansion. However, a new research report concludes that current efforts at finding environmentally sound ways to expand meet with legal and constitutional challenges.

Research from the Fridtjof Nansen Institute is mentioned in one of the ten most read NRK news articles in 2016 – and is also included on a ‘top 100’ list of the most discussed scientific articles globally.

Following years of standstill, China and Norway this week ‘normalised’ their diplomatic relations and agreed to reopen negotiations on a free trade agreement. Good news for Chinese–Norwegian relations – but could it be bad for the environment?

Topical and contentious issues such as the recent ‘winter package’ from the EU on renewable energy, the EU effort sharing regulation and not least the Market Stability Reserve (MRS) of the EU emissions trading system were all on the table when Cicep this week invited to breakfast seminar at Kulturhuset.

FNI shared insights from the Norwegian fisheries management and cross-border cooperation at a recent science and policy seminar in Busan, South Korea.

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has selected Research Professor Davor Vidas, director of FNI's Law of the Sea Programme, to join the Advisory Group for the UN Environment Assembly on combatting marine pollution by plastic litter and microplastics.

The high-level summit on global biodiversity starts this week. FNI will be hosting and attending several side-events.

In what has been labelled the “Oscars of the think tank world”, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) has been nominated as best European think tank of the year in the field of energy and environment.

Lise Marie Sundsbø, master's student at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, has been monitoring parts of the recent climate summit. Here she gives a brief introduction to the negotiations and to the most important bones of contention looking ahead.

What future for the Arctic? A pristine and preserved natural reserve, or a full-on "race for resources"? Norway’s new Ambassador for Arctic Affairs has clear views.

Despite the doomsayers, climate policy under a Trump presidency might not turn into the complete disaster many are predicting after all.

An FNI article is the third most cited academic article in all of 2015 in the prestigious and highly ranked academic journal “Regulation & Governance”.

FNI has established relations with foreign policy research institutes in South Africa, and sees promising opportunities for joint research in the years ahead.