Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Colombia
In this new Fact Sheet from the joint NUPI and SIPRI’s joint Climate-related Peace and Security Risks Project (CPSR) team explore the nexus between climate change, peace and security.
Climate, Peace and Security in Colombia
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Colombia
Seminar on Resilience Governance of Anthropocene Climate-, Energy-, Food- and Security Crises
Munich Security Forum - Arctic Security Roundtable (MSF - ASR)
This roundtable is organized by the MSC in cooperation with NUPI and Wilson Centre....
Katharina Glaab
Glaab was a visiting research fellow at NUPI in the Research Group on Russia, Asia and International Trade.
The Brazilian Elections and the Prospects for Norwegian Cooperation in the Amazon Rainforest
How can the presidential election in Brazil affect international cooperation to preserve the Amazon rainforest?
Is delay the new denial in climate policy?
With the decline of open climate denialism – is delay the new denial?
Norway’s Climate Club Quandary
Norway’s international climate policy has always aimed at building a unitary global climate regime. However, the Paris Agreement reflects and accelerates the fragmentation of the climate regime and has been accompanied by the emergence of a myriad of new climate initiatives between countries. This article highlights three trends that characterize the emerging climate regime: a shift from climate to green industrial policy; rising tension between climate and trade policy and pressure to merge climate and petroleum policy. We illustrate how climate clubs both create new rules within the climate regime and are formed in response to such rules. Navigating this new international landscape will be a central challenge for Norwegian climate policy moving forward. Norway’s climate club quandary in this context implies choices between different political strategies and competing interests and with possible consequences for what type of climate regime Norway will contribute to. The climate club quandary is both related whom Norway seeks to collaborate with and the formalization of such collaboration, but also the consequences of collaborating with some countries and not with others.
A functional approach to decentralization in the electricity sector: learning from community choice aggregation in California
Decentralization of the electricity sector has mainly been studied in relation to its infrastructural aspect, particularly location and size of the generation units, and only recently more attention has been paid to the governance aspects. This article examines power sector (de)centralization operationalized along three functional dimensions: political, administrative and economic. We apply this framework to empirically assess the changes in California’s electricity market, which saw the emergence of institutional innovation in the form of community choice aggregation (CCA). Unpacking the Californian case illustrates how decision-making has moved from central state government and regulators to the municipal level in uneven ways and without decentralized generation keeping pace. We also explore the impacts this multidimensional and diversified decentralization has on the ultimate goals of energy transition: decarbonization and energy security. Our framework and empirical findings challenge the conventional view on decentralization and problematize the widespread assumptions of its positive influence on climate mitigation and grid stability.