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

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 and Cheng Han

Advances in Polar Science, Vol 27, No 3, 2016, pp. 139-145.

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
Etter COP24: Tar Kina ledelsen på klima? ('After COP24: Can China take the lead on climate?')

Gørild Heggelund

Energi og Klima. 20.12.2018. In Norwegian.
Tar Kina ledelsen på klima? ('Will China take the lead on climate?')

Gørild Heggelund

Attac blogpost. 18.12.2018. In Norwegian.
Kina: En økologisk sivilisasjon på trappene? ('China: An ecological civilization in the offing?')

Iselin Stensdal and Gørild Heggelund

Klima, 29.08.2018. In Norwegian.

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