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UiB master student Logan Cook Abbott has recently stayed in Estonia for some weeks to collect data for his master’s thesis. He examines the counter-intuitive phenomenon of ‘green lock-in' in Estonia, where previous investments made by government, industry and the E.U. may have the effect of pushing offshore wind projects forward, despite reduced enthusiasm for the sector.
We are pleased to share that Professor Martin Fernø will join the UNESCO Chair in Green Transition for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change.
The Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen has established the COAST Law Center—a research center for climate, energy, and sustainability law, thematically focused on climate, the ocean, the marine environment, and maritime activities.
PhD candidate Sejal Pramlall is one of five young ocean researchers to be given the French Institute Nordic Award (FINA). The award will fund her participation at the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice in France in June.
Did you miss Sarah Eileen Gasda's presentation on research challenges in scaling up CO2 storage to the gigatonne scale in relation to NORCES participation in the FME gigaCCS? Watch it here! First presented as a Bergen Energy Lab lunch webinar Tuesday 1 April 2025.
In the chemistry lab on the fourth floor of the Realfagbygget, Professor Vidar Remi Jensen's research group combines artificial intelligence with virtual and robot-based searches for the next generation of medicines, catalysts, and sustainable fuels.
UiB's election campaigns are in full swing. But what do the two teams think about sustainability? How do we address big global and local challenges through our research, education and outreach? What are UiB's strengths and what can be improved?
In this debate, organized by CET, the Sustainability Pilots, and CeSAM, we ask Margareth Hagen, Sigrunn Eliassen, Lise Øvreås and Endre Tvinnereim... Read more
Sander ble ferdig med mastergraden sin for er par måneder siden. Denne helgen vant han pris for sin akademiske artikkel.
The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
In the side event “License to Operate – The Arctic Energy Transition” at Arctic Frontiers 2025, stakeholders from across sectors joined forces to discuss the challenges lying ahead for the Arctic and the green transition of energy markets in a geopolitically challenging situation.
The University of Bergen has been confirmed as the UNAI SDG14 Hub Chair for 2025-2027 taking on three more years of responsibility to engage the global knowledge community in matters related to a sustainable ocean.
Apply for admission to our new course Introduction to the Environmental Humanities! Through lectures, seminars, and fieldwork, the course explores cultural, historical, political, and creative engagements with the environment at local, national, and global scales.
In this newly published op-ed, we argue that the Norwegian state must take more responsibility for protecting natural ecosystems by tightening regulations on land use in municipalities.
These days, Norway's plan following the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (the Norwegian Action Plan for Natural Diversity) is being discussed in the Norwegian Parliament. Our expectation of this plan was that it would not only describe the status of Norwegian nature, but also take this knowledge seriously by proposing necessary measures to slow down and reverse the loss of nature... Read more
25 prominent scientists call for knowledge-based action in this debate article, recently published in Khrono.
In CeSAM's interdisciplinary seminar series 2024-2025, we tackle big and small questions at the intersection between nature and politics. We take the Norwegian perspective as our starting point and put an interdisciplinary spotlight on Norway's implementation of the nature agreement. All welcome!
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