@elinlb.bsky.social
Political Science Professor. Climate governance, climate action, renewables, EU studies and policy entrepreneurs. I follow Norwegian, Swedish and EU climate policy+politics. University of Oslo. CICERO. IPCC AR6 and AR6.
I am settled on the 32st floor with a view of Paris (and EDF) and well prepared for one week of climate science discussions, kicking of the 7th assessment cycle of the @IPCC A nice run in the sunset gave me a head start!
30.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I am settled on the 32st floor with a view of Paris (and EDF) and well prepared for one week of climate science discussions, kicking of the 7th assessment cycle of the @IPCC A nice run in the sunset gave me a head start!
30.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0And if IPCC AR7 is not released until after the GST in 2028, then they will still be using the 2019 number until 2029, when the budget for 1.5°C would have been exceeded...
(unless someone comes up with new bigger budgets)
😂
21.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The average dictator is close to 40 year older than the median person in their country - and it is increasing.
The average democrat is less than 25 year older than the median person in their country - and it is decreasing.
Smerten ved å gå på ekspresstoget til Tønsberg på Nationaltheatret (og det toget fikk jeg smertelig erfare stopper faktisk ikke en eneste gang før Tønsberg) fordi jeg bare kan sykkel, ikke tog.
Dette henger selvfølgelig sammen med smerten knyttet til å finne ut hvilke sykkel jeg bør kjøpe.
Medfølelse! Min sykkels fra 2009 knakk også sammen nå…
19.11.2025 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lots of bad climate news these days, but hey, let us focus on the bright side!
13.11.2025 08:19 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dette ser ut til å vera eit imponerande verk.
Innhaldsoversyn her: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Er du opptatt av å forstå det politiske Norge? Da vil du ikke gå glipp av lanseringen av verdens første Oxford oppslagsverk om norsk politikk! Kom til slippefesten 8. desember! @statsvitenskap.bsky.social
www.sv.uio.no/isv/forsknin...
Miljøkomiteens forslag om at kvotepliktig sektor ikke vil kunne bruke internasjonale kvoter er ikke i tråd med dominerende norsk tenkemåte. Siden Norge ikke er med i EUs klimalov så blir det antagelig likevel ikke et problem. Eller hva tror dere? 2/2
10.11.2025 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Diskusjonene om EUs klimamål ruller videre, helt parallelt med de internasjonale klimaforhandlingene. Nå har miljøkomiteen i Europaparlamentet gjort sitt vedtak, og kanskje er resultatet at EUs klimamål for 2035 faller innenfor intervallet Stortinget antok. 1/n
www.endseurope.com/article/1939...
Some jurisdictions have made a real effort and it shows in the numbers. This is a demonstration that mitigation is possible, countering the “we can’t do anything about it” narrative. Therefore it is so important.
05.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The UNEP GAP report is not the kind of reading that makes climate scientists smile. But this figure is not all bleak - look at all the emissions curves pointing downwards!
The full report: www.unep.org/resources/em...
EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.
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Hurray, the Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics is out! It includes a chapter on climate and nature protection with general insights about the different nature of the two policy areas. How would such a comparison would look like in your country? 1/n
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Read more in the chapter itself! 5/5
Thank you to the editors Kristoffer Kolltveit, Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer and Bjørn Erik Rasch.
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @cicero.oslo.no @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social
Differences in the political economy of the two areas has been important, especially the larger potential for win-win solutions in climate than in nature protect. Further, international cooperation and the EU are far more important for climate than for nature protection policy. 4/n
29.10.2025 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Many factors create differences. The policy areas were profoundly shaped by the political climate at the time they first emerged, with climate policy emerging in the 1990ies and nature protection in the pre-second world war decades.
29.10.2025 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I learned a lot from comparing the two areas, they where even more different than I imagined initially. while climate policy is dominated by targets, pricing and subsidies, nature protection has more top-down regulations, and public-private collaboration is crucial. 2/n
29.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hurray, the Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics is out! It includes a chapter on climate and nature protection with general insights about the different nature of the two policy areas. How would such a comparison would look like in your country? 1/n
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)!
If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!
The first cement produced at Norway's Brevik plant with carbon emissions captured and stored under the seabed has now been used in concrete poured in Oslo's new metro line to Fornebu.
21.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.
Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s.
It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling.
Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.
This is why I love walking the dog early in the morning.
12.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Yep! There is even great research that shows that these are precisely the kind of people, who would want to join the secret police -- because they are not good for anything else: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
04.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Many good climate podcasts out there, but few are as well produced as Living Planet from DW. I am happy to have contributed to this episode on Norwegian climate and petroleum policy and politics. It skips important details, but is well worth listening to!
podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/l...
No, that is not a quote from me!
30.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@cicero.oslo.no @statsvitenskap.bsky.social
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