News archive for Climate and energy transition

Call for applications for funding to stimulate activities that strengthen UiB’s work on global challenges - application deadline: 1 October 2026.

Global Challenges has allocated funds to stimulate academic cross-faculty collaboration - application deadline 1 March 2026.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.