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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!
The collaborative project ECOBUDGETS will explore ways to integrate climate and nature budgets into administrative and political decisions at the municipal and county levels.
What can society do when climate change affects crafts, traditions, knowledge about nature, and other expressions of intangible cultural heritage? Daniel Puig, a researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, is exploring this question.
New research from the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) and Chalmers University of Technology shows that a large CCS expansion and strong policy and investment efforts are essential to fulfil the climate targets in the Paris Agreement.
We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.
Early in the morning on the 26th of December 1999, the people of France were shocked by two fatal storms. How did these massive cyclones take the meteorologists by surprise? And can machine learning aid weather forecasts of the future?
The SmallFish4Food project by University of Bergen researchers Jeppe Kolding and Ragnhild Overå is one of only 12 projects globally and five Norwegian projects to be awarded with funding through the SDG Pilots Call of the Global Research Council, with funding supplied via the Research Council of Norway.
Principal investigator Kerry Ryan Chance of the Habitable Air project spoke at the 2024 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) at the United Nations in New York on the urgent issue of air pollution and how this impacts on climate change and public health.
«If climate policies want to be successful, they must be about more than climate,» professor Michaël Tatham says.
The Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate (N-POC) Scholarship Programme is unique both in its content and scope. Both for its clear science-policy objectives and the way it’s been shaped as a truly joint doctoral programme.
The Norway-Pacific Ocean-Climate (N-POC) Scholarship Programme was an active ingredient at the 2024 Bergen Summer Research School, bridging ideas of scientific knowledge and traditional knowledge on the ocean-climate nexus during two hectic weeks in Bergen.
The rise in ocean temperature in the past year is one of the most urgent threats to global equity and thus to global stability in a new geopolitical landscape. How can science contribute to solutions to this challenge?
Yan Li, an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, has been working on developing theoretical models to predict the occurrence probability of so-called “rogue waves” or “freak waves.” These waves can be approximately three times higher than the average wave height and are extremely dangerous for ships and other marine operations.
On 21 February 2024 the University of Bergen and partners organized an event on ocean governance at Norway House in Brussels. The discussions at the event and an outcome discussion has now resulted in the first Ocean Futures 2030 Policy Brief.
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