Winners and Losers at COP25
Well, if everything happens for a reason, then the crooked ‘P’ is representative of this conference Tomohiro Harada spent almost 2 long weeks at the Conference of the Parties (COP) […]
Climate Change
Mat, miljø og media
Ola Tveitereid Westengen, Førsteamanuensis, Noragric, NMBU Kjøtt og klima – og andre sammenhenger mellom mat, mennesker og miljø er i fokus i samfunnsdebatten. Norge har til og med fått en […]
Indigenous Peoples: Moving beyond the UNFCCC Platform
Noragric PhD Fellow Tomohiro Harada on the UN’s recent Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in Bonn. Indigenous peoples are no longer ’observers’ at the UNFCCC. As effective ’contributors’ to […]
What happened to the Spirit of Paris? Indigenous Peoples at COP24 in Katowice, Poland
Written by Tomohiro Harada, PhD Fellow, Noragric This last week 30,000 people from across the world gathered at the heart of Europe’s coal mining region to address the biggest threat to […]
Floods in Kerala – a wake-up call
In light of the devastating floods of August 2018, the state needs to introspect on its approach to development. Written by Hans Nicolai Adam, Postdoctoral Fellow, Noragric The worst floods […]
Grabbing Green? The institutionalization of the green economy in Tanzania
Written by Jill Tove Buseth, PhD Fellow, Noragric. This post is one of a series that will explore the aims and conceptual bases of the Noragric-led Greenmentality project. First published in the Greenmentality […]
Mentalities of greening, governing, and getting rich
Written by Connor Cavanagh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Noragric. This post is one of a series that will explore the aims and conceptual bases of the Noragric-led Greenmentality project. First published in the […]
Climate Change, Jihadism and Policy Failures in the Sahel
Written by Tor Arve Benjaminsen. Originally published in the PRIO Climate & Conflict blog. On the 22 November 2017, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence in the European Parliament held […]
Climate change uncertainty: Mind the gap
Written by Synne Movik, Catherine Wilson & Shibaji Bose Climate change uncertainty is often considered a ‘super wicked problem’ by scientists and policymakers, and climate scientists have long strived to understand […]
A tale of two cities: flooding in Houston and Mumbai – time to learn?
Written by Hans Nicolai Adam, Lyla Mehta & D. Parthasarathy Dramatic images of the impacts from flooding from Houston in the US and Mumbai, India have called to attention the […]