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Trump's Green-Bashing and Europe's Right Put Climate Goals at Risk

(27.02.24) Bloomberg.com: Postdoc Mahir Yazar interviewed on that climate policy has become a political flash point in the US and Europe, risking to slow down the energy transition when it needs to speed up.

Start Involving Children In Climate Decisions! Reflections On Intergenerational Justice From Norway

(06.02.24) Undisciplined Environments: After a weekend of interacting with schoolchildren about the climate crisis, a Norway-based researcher reflects on why recent decisions made by the Norwegian government can be defined as acts of intergenerational injustice.

«Populist far-right parties hinder EU climate policies»

Populist far-right parties portray fossil fuel phase-out as a threat to traditional family values, regional identity, and national sovereignty, according to researchers at UiB.

PhD candidate Jesse Schrage interviewed in Nature

(08.11.23) Why a climate researcher pushed the limits of low-carbon travel — and his employer’s patience.

Podcast: Where should we park the trucks?

(14.11.23) Ph.D. Candidate Subina Shrestha on the challenges Bergen faces when planing freight transport in the city centre.

Women, Thea Gregersen looking at the camera with a slight smile in a dark shirt

Anger is most powerful emotion by far for spurring climate action, study finds

(21.08.23) A study from CET Affiliates Thea Gregersen, Gisle Andersen and Endre Tvinnereim featured in The Guardian.

Podcast: Electric cars – a not so green transition

PhD candidate Devyn Remme on the social and environmental consequences of the transition to electric cars from a global perspective.

The role of the EU in shaping sustainable urban logistics governance in Norwegian cities

Regional Studies Association blog: Subina Shrestha on Assessing the localization of sustainable urban logistics governance goals in Norwegian cities.

Kevin Anderson in The Conversation

(24.03.23) IPCC’s conservative nature masks true scale of action needed to avert catastrophic climate change

Subina Shresta is looking to the camera, smiling. She has caramel brown hair, glasses, wearing a green blouse. Her hands ar collected in front of her. The background is light grey.

Subina Shresta in podcast Pods by Pei

(24.01.23) Subina Shrestha on Nepal’s Electric Mobility Transition: Challenges and Recommendations for the Future.

Connecting academic (air) mobility with carbon inequality: Perspectives from a Global South scholar

(04.10.22) As citizens of the Global South, now immigrants in the Global North, which narrative of climate action should we uphold: the one that we know is unfair back home, or the one that puts the responsibility of action on us because of where we reside now? Are our Western contemporaries aware...

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All Hands on Deck: The Americanization of Climate Lawsuits?

CET Affiliate Esmeralda Colombo writes in Harvest Magazine about the Norwegian climate lawsuit in the supreme court.

Norway’s Supreme Court Hears Rights Challenge to Arctic Oil Drilling

CET Affiliate Esmeralda Colombo in New York Times on the Norwegian climate lawsuit.

Government climate advisers running scared of change, says leading scientist

Kevin Anderson, Professor II at CET, in The Guardian: Rapid transformation needed, Kevin Anderson says, particularly in lifestyles of rich.

Doing time for the climate

According to Håvard Haarstad, scientists have to commit to doing everything they can to get society moving in the right direction. His own commitment to saving the world earned him a night in prison in New York.

‘Mapping Power — The Political Economy of Electricity in India’s States’ review: Grid shortfall

The desirable future of solar energy in Portugal

As a researcher working on the governance of energy transitions in 2016, I was fascinated by the relatively slow growth of solar energy in Portugal despite the amazing potential. I crafted a research project to explore this with a focus on accountability relations, and successfully competed for a...

As renewables become competitive, Portugal is positioned to lead

Portugal is transforming the way it sources energy by rapidly expanding its renewable capacity.

Mapping Power: Electricity Distribution in Gujarat: A Sustainable Energy Future Roadmap?

In the era of the unbundled electricity sector, Gujarat’s emergence as India’s leading light is premised on its early recognition that energy policy must engage meaningfully with politics.