Jørgen Wettestad

RESEARCH INTERESTS

EU energy, climate and environmental politics, and implications for and links to Norway. Specific empirical focus on climate and air pollution politics. The design and functioning of emissions trading systems. Regime theory and theory on EU politics, including questions related to the effectiveness and design of international environmental institutions.

BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

Academic background

Full professor competence (Forsker 1), 2005
Cand. polit., University of Oslo (political science, sociology, history), 1984.

Professional experience

Editorial Board member, Politics and Governance journal (since 2019).
Lead Author, IPCC WG III, chapter on International Cooperation (2018-2021).
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Centre, Harvard University (August 2018-July 2019).
Member of management committe of EU COST programme on climate policy innovation (INOGOV) (Since 2014).
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Climate Policy journal (Since 2001).
Coordinator of the EU-financed Concerted Action Programme on the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements and EU Legislation (1999-2000).
Associate Fellow, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (1994-96).
Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Studies, Berkeley (1993).
Involved in several international research evaluations.

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BOOKS

The Evolution of Carbon Markets: Design and Diffusion

Jørgen Wettestad and Lars H.Gulbrandsen (eds)

London/New York, Routledge, 2018, 262 p.
Rescuing EU Emissions Trading: The Climate Policy Flagship

Jørgen Wettestad and Torbjørg Jevnaker

Basingstoke (UK), Palgrave, 2016, 119 p.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Smokescreen Politics? Ratcheting Up EU Emissions Trading in 2017

Jørgen Wettestad and Torbjørg Jevnaker

Review of Policy Research, published online 03.05.2019. DOI: 10.111/ropr.12345
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
The political roots of divergence in carbon market design: implications for linking

Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Jørgen Wettestad, David G. Victor and Arild Underdal

Climate Policy, Published online 27.11.2018, 12 p. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1551188
Harnessing the Market: Trading in Carbon Allowances

Katja Biedenkopf and Jørgen Wettestad

In Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt and Johanna Forster (eds), Governing Climate Chsnge - Polycentricity in Action? Cambridge (UK), Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 231-248.
South Korea: East Asian pioneer learning from the EU

Katja Biedenkopf and Jørgen Wettestad

In Jørgen Wettestad and Lars H. Gulbrandsen (eds), The Evolution of Carbon Markets: Design and Diffusion. London, Routledge, 2018, pp. 145-165.