Gørild Merethe Heggelund

RESEARCH INTERESTS

China's energy and climate change policy - including mitigation, low carbon development and adaptation.
China's Emissions Trading System/carbon market.
China’s policymaking, including environment, energy and climate bureuacracy & institutions.
China’s cities and climate change, including resilient & low carbon pilots, Alliance of Peaking Pioneer Cities (APPC) & sustainable cities.
China’s environment and Sustainable Development Goals.

BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

Academic background

Dr. art (Ph.D.), University of Oslo, 2002.
Cand.philol, University of Oslo, 1992 (Chinese studies - culture, language, politics, history, environment).

Professional experience

UNDP China Country Office, Senior Climate Change Advisor (2009-2014).
Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Researcher and later Senior Research Fellow (1997-2009).
UNDP China office, Energy and Environment Division (1995-97).
UNIFEM, China (World Conference on Women (WCW)) (1994-95).

Project name

Status

The Minamata Convention and Mercury Policy in China: The Role of Science

Kristin Rosendal, Steinar Andresen, Gørild Heggelund and Eirik Hovland Steindal

Asian Perspective, Vol 44, No 3, 2020, pp. 435-460
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
Addressing Climate Change in China: Policies and Governance

Gørild Heggelund

In Adriana Galderisi and Angela Colucci (eds), Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities. Emerging Approaches and Tools for a Climate-Sensitive Urban Development. Amsterdam/Oxford/Cambridge MA, Elsevier, 2018, pp. 61-65.
China's carbon market: in it to learn it

Stensdal, Iselin, Gørild Heggelund and Duan Maosheng

In Wettestad, Jørgen and Lars Gulbrandsen (eds), The Evolution of Carbon Markets. Design and Diffusion. London, Routledge, 2018, pp. 180-207.
Climate Change Policy and Governance

Gørild Heggelund and Rebecca Nadin

In Eva Sternfeld (ed), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy in China. London/New York, Routledge, 2017, pp. 97-112.

China's Climate Policy: Does an Arctic Dimension Exist?

Gørild Heggelund

In Svein Vigeland Rottem and Ida Folkestad Soldtvedt, Arctic Governance: Norway, Russia and Asia. Volume 3. I.B. Tauris, 2020, chapter 12.
Subnational Implementation Pathways for China’s National Pricing System: Challenges and Opportunities

Gørild Heggelund

In Stavins, Robert N and Stowe, Robert C. (eds), Subnational Climate Change Policy in China. Harvard Kennedy School, 2020, pp. 41-44.
China in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Key environmental issues and responses

Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr and Gørild Heggelund

NUPI Policy Brief 4/2020, 4 p.
EUs kvotemarked bedres – nå girer også Kina opp ('The EU ETS is improving – now China is scaling up')

Gørild Heggelund, Iselin Stensdal and Jørgen Wettestad

Energi og Klima, 20.1.2020. In Norwegian.
Sustainable development

Gørild Heggelund

In Andreas Bøje Forsby (ed), Nordic-China Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities. NIAS Reports, No. 52, 2019, pp. 33-39

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