FNI Newsletter February 2023
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Photo: David Jensen, Arctic Frontiers
Timely FNI presence at Arctic Frontiers

The Arctic Frontiers conference draws researchers, politicians, officials, business and local people across national borders in the Arctic.

FNI was well represented at this year’s conference in Tromsø, where current issues concerning the future of Svalbard and the Arctic Council were discussed, as were local consequences of the geopolitical situation in the North.
EVENT: Arctic Governance and Business: Role of Asian Countries

Organized by FNI, Norwegian Embassy Singapore and Nord University in Singapore + online, February 17, 2023

In this seminar we will examine governance challenges and business opportunities, and look at Asia in the Arctic.
New Policy Brief: A New Global Deal for Biodiversity
New Policy Brief: A New Global Deal for Biodiversity

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

FNI senior researcher Christian Prip just published a new Policy Brief on the recent COP15 of the UN Biodiversity conference.
Two new FNI books

Marine Resources, Climate Change and International Management Regimes
Olav Schram Stokke, Andreas Østhagen and Andreas Raspotnik (eds), Bloomsbury, 2022

The Law of the Sea: Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes Nele Matz-Lück, Øystein Jensen, and Elise Johansen (eds). Routledge, 2022
FNI on BBC: "US discovers Arctic geopolitics"

FNI senior researcher Andreas Østhagen was recently interviewed on BBC Weekend about the United States' defense strategy in response to a growing Russian presence in the Arctic.
Towards an Historic Svalbard Judgment in Norway’s Supreme Court

Øystein Jensen

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol 14, 2023, pp. 83-85.
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The Impacts of Sea Level Rise and the Law of the Sea Convention: Facilitating Legal Certainty and Stability of Maritime Zones and Boundaries

Davor Vidas and David Freestone
International Law Studies, Vol 99, 2022, pp. 994-962
The power of power markets: Zonal market designs in advancing energy transitions

Marie Byskov Lindberg

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Vol 45, 2022, pp. 132-153.
100 years have passed since Fridtjof Nansen received the Nobel Peace Prize. Would he have been given it today?

Anna Valberg
Science Norway
Norway has the strictest aquaculture regulations in the world. Will other countries follow suit?

Anna Valberg
Science Norway

Polar and Russian politics

The Arctic in 2022
Andreas Østhagen
In Katarina Tracz (ed), Stronger Together - Sweden and Finland on the Road Toward NATO. Stockholm Free World Forum & Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2022, pp. 101-134.

Environmental justice for the poor? The case of the Aarhus Convention in the post-Soviet region
Erdem Lamazhapov and Pål Wilter Skedsmo
FNI Policy Brief 9/2022. Lysaker, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, November 2022, 8 p.

International Shipping and the Northern Sea Route
Björn Gunnarsson and Arild Moe
In Andrey Mineev, Anatoli Bourmistrov and Frode Mellemvik (eds), Global Development in the Arctic: International Cooperation for the Future. Routledge, 2022, pp. 216-231.

Unboxing Arctic Security Relations and Dynamics
Andreas Østhagen
In Andrey Mineev, Anatoli Bourmistrov and Frode Mellemvik (eds), Global Development in the Arctic: International Cooperation for the Future. Routledge, 2022, pp. 47-62.

Russian requests for climate cooperation: Reasons for scepticism
Anna Korppoo
Climate Strategies, November 10, 2022.

The future of EU-Russia collaboration in the Arctic
Andreas Raspotnik and Adam Stepien
Baltic Rim Economies, October 31, 2022.

Climate and energy

Biofuelling the energy transition in Nordic countries: Explaining overachievement of EU renewable transport obligations
Jon Birger Skjærseth, Per Ove Eikeland and Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg
International Environmental Agreements, published online 04.10.2022, 18 p. DOI: 10.1007/s10784-022-09587-2


Net-zero or phase out? Stakeholder views on just transitions pathways for oil and gas in Norway
David Jordhus-Lier, Camilla Houeland, Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås, Kacper Szulecki, Peder Ressem Østring and Kendra Dupuy
FNI Policy Brief 7/2022. Lysaker, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, October 2022, 6 p.


Biodiversity and genetic resources

The ecosystem approach to marine management in the Arctic: Opportunities and challenges for integration
Nicole Wienrich, Victoria Quutuq Buschman, Catherine Coon, Susanna Fuller, Janos C. Hennicke, Christoph Humrich, Christian Prip and Lauren Wenzel
Frontiers in Marine Science, published online 23.11.2022, 7 p. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1034510

Managing global supply chain disruptions under the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of the Norwegian seafood industry
Valeria Nyu, Frode Nilssen and Oleg Nenadic
International Journal of Export Marketing, Vol 5, No 1, 2002, pp. 73-102

The long-term effects of COVID-19: Poverty alleviation in global cooperation on health and nature issues
Kristin Rosendal, Gørild M. Heggelund and Christian Prip
FNI Policy Brief 8/2022. Lysaker, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, October
2022, 6 p.

Legal Certainty and Stability in the Face of Sea Level Rise: Trends in the Development of State Practice and International Law Scholarship on Maritime Limits and Boundaries
Davor Vidas and David Freestone
The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Vol 37, No 4, 2022, pp. 1-53.

Global cooperation on health and nature issues in the (longer) wake of COVID-19
Kristin Rosendal, Gørild M. Heggelund, Christian Prip and Kristin Ingstad Sandberg
FNI Report 4/2022. Lysaker, FNI, 2022, 19 p.

Nature based Solutions for Biodiversity, Climate and People
Christian Prip
FNI Report 3/2022. Lysaker, FNI, 2022, 11 p.

Lessons from Writing Binding and Enforceable ABS Contracts. A Contract Solution to Digital Sequence Data in ABS
Morten Walløe Tvedt
In Chege Kamau, E. (ed), Global Transformations in the Use of Biodiversity for Research and Development. Springer, 2022, pp. 621-635

Regulatory Processes for Setting Sensitive-Period Sea-lice Thresholds in Major Salmon Producer Jurisdictions: An Evaluation
Irja Vormedal and Mari Lie Larsen
Report commissioned by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). Published 2022, 25 p.

International relations

Political Participation and Regime Responses
Kendra Dupuy, Leonardo R. Arriola and Lise Rakner
In Leonardo Arriola, Lise Rfakner and Nicolas Van de Walle (eds), Democratic Backsliding in Africa? Autocratization, Resilience, and Contention. Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 34-55.

Ethnography
Iver B. Neumann
In Patrick A. Mello and Falk Ostermann (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods. Routledge, 2023, pp. 39-50.

Prehistorical International Relations: How, Why, What
Iver B. Neumann and Håkon Glørstad
Global Studies Quarterly, Vol 4, No 2, 2022, pp. 1-12


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