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Wave transition in household energy use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The energy ladder model and energy stacking model have been proposed in the literature to describe the relations between income growth and transition of energy consumed by households. Both models are largely descriptive ... -
Wealth, Welfare and Sustainable Growth and Development: Challenges of Economic- and Fiscal Policies in Resource-Producing Countries
(2011:01, Working paper, 2011)This Policy Note discuses, based on modern development theory and wealth accounting, challenges for economic- and fiscal policies in resource-producing countries defined as countries - both developed and developing low ... -
Wealth-dependent and interdependent strategies in the Saami reindeer husbandry, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)It has been argued that decisions in relation to choosing strategies to a large degree depend on an organism's state. For nomadic pastoralists, wealth is an important state variable since it has been argued that differences ... -
What controls the vertical distribution of aerosol? Relationships between process sensitivity in HadGEM3-UKCA and inter-model variation from AeroCom Phase II
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)he vertical profile of aerosol is important for its radiative effects, but weakly constrained by observations on the global scale, and highly variable among different models. To investigate the controlling factors in one ... -
What If Country Commitments for CO2 Removal Were Based on Responsibility for Historical Emissions?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study explored the consequences of allocating commitments to remove CO2 to countries according to their responsibility for human-made climate change based on historical (cumulative) CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use ... -
What is a heat(wave)? An interdisciplinary perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Excessive summer heat is becoming people’s daily reality creating an urgency to understand heatwaves and their consequences better. This article suggests an interdisciplinary analytical framework of heat(waves) as multiple ... -
What might be minimum requirements for making the mechanism of Joint Implementation under the Climate Convention credible and operational
(1994:04, Research report, 1994)Joint implementation (JI) is a mechanism under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). The criteria of the mechanism are yet to be decided upon, but discussions in the International Negotiating Committee (INC) ... -
What relevant information do the integrated assessment models and scenarios from the 1.5 °C special report provide for Norway?
(2019:18, Report, 2019-12)The Norwegian Environment Agency (Miljødirektoratet) has requested a report to “get more detailed and nationally policy relevant information about the IAM-scenarios assessed in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... -
What's in a word? Conflicting interpretations of vulnerability in climate change research
(2004:04, Working paper, 2004)In this paper, we discuss two competing interpretations of vulnerability in the climate change literature and consider the implications for both research and policy. The first interpretation, which can be referred to as ... -
What’s Fair – and Why? An Empirical Analysis of Distributive Fairness in the Climate Negotiations
(2016:04, Research report, 2016)In the climate negotiations, conceptions of fairness plays an important role. For a climate agreement to be effective and durable, it must be conceived as fair by as many of its parties as possible. Unfortunately, there ... -
When Does Informal Enforcement Work?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)We study experimentally how enforcement influences public goods provision when subjects face two free-rider options that roughly parallel the nonparticipation and noncompliance options available for countries in relation ... -
Where is the EU headed given its current climate policy? A stakeholder-driven model inter-comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recent calls to do climate policy research with, rather than for, stakeholders have been answered in non-modelling science. Notwithstanding progress in modelling literature, however, very little of the scenario space traces ... -
Where You Stand Depends on What You Sell – Saudi Arabia’s Obstructionism in the UNFCCC 2012-2018
(2019:11, Report, 2019-08)Negotiations on climate change in the United Nations represents the key tool in addressing our time greatest challenge. Countries have negotiated on climate change for decades, and the talks ultimately resulted in the Paris ... -
Who governs the environmental policy in the EU? A study of the process towards a common climate target
(1998:04, Working paper, 1998)The agreement in the Environment Council of March 1997 came as a surprise to most observers and the target was immediately regarded as a radical contribution to the international negotiation process. The Council lists up ... -
Why herd size matters - mitigating the effects of livestock crashes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Analysing the effect of pastoral risk management strategies provides insights into a system of subsistence that have persevered in marginal areas for hundreds to thousands of years and may shed light into the future of ... -
Why quota trade should be restricted: The arguments behind the EU position on emissions trading
(2001:07, Working paper, 2001)In this paper I try to clarify the background and arguments behind the EU position on emissions trading in negotiating the Kyoto Protocol and their suggestions of how the supplementarity cap in the Kyoto agreement can be ... -
Why the CDM can reduce carbon leakage
(2006:02, Working paper, 2006)Carbon leakage is an important concern because it can reduce the environmental effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol. The Clean Development Mechanism, one of the flexibility mechanisms allowed under the protocol, has the ... -
Why the United States did not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol: German, Norwegian, and US perspectives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)According to two-level game theory, negotiators tailor agreements at the international level to be ratifiable at the domestic level. This did not happen in the Kyoto negotiations, however, in the US case. We interviewed ... -
Why the United States did not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol: German, Norwegian, and US perspectives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)According to two-level game theory, negotiators tailor agreements at the international level to be ratifiable at the domestic level. This did not happen in the Kyoto negotiations, however, in the US case. We interviewed ... -
Willhem
(Second opinions;2018:003, Report, 2018-01-26)Category: Second Opinion, Sector: Real Estate, Issuer type: Corporate, Shading: Medium Green