FNI research fellow Pål Wilter Skedsmo defends his PhD thesis ‘Europeanizing Armenia. Assemblages of environmental rights and development in Post-Soviet Armenia’.

‘Irreversible’ changes to the earth provide striking evidence of new epoch, experts suggest, thus rebuking the critics claiming that the Anthropocene is mostly about politics, not science.

The book EU Climate Policy, written by FNI researcher Jørgen Wettestad and Elin Lerum Boasson at the University of Oslo, has sold well and is now available in paperback.

Listening to debates about the benefits and drawbacks of bioenergy and biofuels is usually a mixed experience, with advocates of both sides slinging mud and calling each other’s kettles black.

Anne Kristin Sydnes died 3 March, from cancer. She was 60 years old. Anne Kristin worked at FNI from 1981until 1998. Her research focused on energy, north-south issues and climate policy. Her personality made a lasting impression on everybody she met. We mourn the loss of a good colleague and friend.

After tough negotiations between ministers and only a tiny majority, the ETS reform process now enters its final, crucial phase.