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 Paris Agreement and key actors’ domestic climate policy mixes: Comparative patterns

Jon Birger Skjærseth, Steinar Andresen, Guri Bang and Gørild Heggelund.

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, published online 18.02.2021, 15 p.
China’s climate and energy policy: at a turning point?

Gørild Heggelund

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, published online 13.02.2021, 15 p. DOI: 10.1007/s10784-021-09528-5
Den «nye supermakten»: Hva vil Kina i Arktis?

Anders Christoffer Edstrøm, Iselin Stensdal and Gørild Heggelund

Internasjonal Politikk, Vol 78, No 4, 2020, pp. 523-534
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

Kinas nye femårsplan vil gi retningen for det grønne skiftet (China's new five-year plan will give direction for the green shift)

Gørild Heggelund, Iselin Stensdal og Anna Valberg

Forskersonen.no, 22 March 2021. In Norwegian
Kina: Grønn vekst i annen rekke (China: Green growth second to economy)

Gørild Heggelund, Iselin Stensdal og Anna Valberg

E24, 17 March 2021. In Norwegian
Kan Paris-avtalen nås? Status og utsikter for klimapolitikken i EU, Kina og USA

Jon Birger Skjærseth, Steinar Andresen, Guri Bang og Gørild Heggelund

Energi og klima, 15 March 2021. In Norwegian.
Linking Asian carbon markets: opportunities and barriers

Gørild M. Heggelund, Iselin Stensdal and Jørgen Wettestad

FNI Report 2/2021. Lysaker, FNI, 2021, 16 p.
Global governance of health and nature in the wake of COVID-19. Attentive to the role of China and to poverty perspectives.

Gørild M. Heggelund, Christian Prip, G. Kristin Rosendal and Kristin I. Sandberg

FNI Report 1/2021. Lysaker, FNI, 2021, 28 p.

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