Include - Research centre for socially inclusive energy transitions

• Harry, Steven; Maltby, Tomas & Szulecki, Kacper (2024). Contesting just transitions: Climate delay and the contradictions of labour environmentalism. Political Geography. ISSN 0962-6298. 112. doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103114. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The notion of ‘just transition’ (JT) is an attempt to align climate and energy objectives with the material concerns of industrial workers, frontline communities, and marginalised groups. Despite the potential for fusing social and environmental justice, there is growing concern that the concept is being mobilised in practice as a form of ‘climate delayism’: a problem more ambiguous than open forms of denialism as it draws in multiple and conflictual agents, practices, and discourses. Using an historical materialist framework, attentive to both energy-capital and capital-labour relations, we show how JT is vulnerable to forces and relations of climate delay across both fossil capital and climate capital hegemonic projects. We review this through an engagement with the climate obstructionism literature and the theory of labour environmentalism: the political engagement of trade unionists and workers with environmental issues. As tensions within the labour movement surface amidst the unsettling of the carbon capital hegemony, we assess the degree to which (organised) labour—as an internally differentiated, contradictory movement—is participating in climate breakdown through a ‘praxis of delay’. Trade unions and industrial workers are often implicated in resisting or undermining transitions, but this is related significantly to their structural power relations vis a vis the fossil hegemony. Notably, JT negotiations are themselves structurally embedded within the carbon capital economy. The general preferences of trade unions for social over environmental justice might be prevalent but are neither universal nor inevitable; JT is open and contested political terrain, and labour-environmental struggles remain imperative for building just energy futures.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Nykamp, Hilde Andrea; Olkkonen, Ville; Rosenberg, Eva & Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2024). Identifying and analysing important model assumptions: Combining techno-economic and political feasibility of deep decarbonisation pathways in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 112. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103496. Show summary

  Understanding the political feasibility of transition pathways is a key issue in energy transitions. Policy changes are a significant source of uncertainty in energy system optimisation modelling. Energy system models are nevertheless continuously being updated to reflect policy signals as realistically as possible. Using the concept of transition pathways as a starting point, this cross-disciplinary study combines energy system optimization modelling with political feasibility of different transition pathways. This combination generates insights into key political decision points in the ongoing energy transition. Resting on actor support structure and political feasibility of four main pathway categories (electrification, hydrogen, biomass, and energy efficiency), we identify critical model assumptions that are politically significant and impact model outcome. Then, by replacing the critical assumptions with technical limitations we model a scenario that is unrestrained by assumptions about policy, we identify areas where political choices are key to model outcomes. The combination of actor preferences and modelled energy system consequences enables the identification of future key decision points. We find that there is considerable support for electrification as the main pathway to net-zero. The implications of widespread electrification, in terms of energy production and grid capacity, lead us to identify challenging policy decisions with implications for the energy transition.

• Hoff, Sindre Cottis; Böcker, Lars & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2024). Post-/pandemic mobility adaptations and wellbeing in Oslo, Norway: A longitudinal mixed-methods approach. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. ISSN 1361-9209. 129, p. 1–16. doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2024.104147. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study investigates the understudied relationship between post-/pandemic mobility adaptations and wellbeing outcomes, drawing on a longitudinal mixed-method approach combining survey analyses and in-depth citizen interviews conducted between 2019 and 2022 in Oslo, Norway. Qualitative analyses explore the depth and diversity of pandemic mobility adaptations and the implications for hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing. Factor and structural equation models confirm statistical evidence for three pandemic coping strategies – working from home, avoiding spaces of infection, and (enjoyment of) the local environment – with respectively neutral, negative and positive impacts on satisfaction with life. The post-pandemic ability to be more mobile and attend diverse activities again is by many perceived as positive, but people struggle to maintain cherished aspects of the slower-paced, localised lifestyles adopted during the pandemic. We discuss the significance of our findings for inclusive pandemic resilience, and reflect on the lessons relevant for addressing another crisis – climate change.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Palm, Jenny & Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort (2024). Flexible electricity consumption policies in Norway and Sweden: Implications for energy justice. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 110. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103466. Show summary

  Policies for shifting household electricity load are in focus in several countries, aimed at optimizing grid operation and tackling current and expected challenges from consumption patterns, like increased peak loads on the grid. Central here are recent developments in capacity charges, where the use of significant amounts of grid capacity is priced high, compared to the traditional pricing of electricity consumption. These capacity charges tend to be developed at the interface between system needs and incumbent actor influence from the sector on the one side, and arguments for a ‘just’ and consumer-oriented design, like simplicity and actual effect on behaviour, on the other. Comparing the consultation processes concerning policy design in Norway and Sweden, this study investigates if and how these capacity charge policies consider consumer perspectives and needs, and explores the implications for energy justice. The two countries have similar tariff models, but differing consumer considerations have become apparent. In both countries, the policy process has been dominated by sector incumbent actors; the consumer considerations that were included were weak, general, and not grounded in knowledge. Consumer representation has been low. In this study, we note the implications for recognition, procedural, and distributional justice. Our findings indicate the need for further development of balanced policy processes within the energy sector.

• Oftedal, Elin Merethe; Foss, Lene & Rutherford, Matthew (2024). From propriety to validity in new ventures: A nine-year study of three startup companies. Technovation. ISSN 0166-4972. 131. doi: 10.1016/j.technovation.2023.102949. Full text in Research Archive
• Guillen-Royo, Monica; Sandnes, Thea; Westskog, Hege & Brudevoll, Kristiane (2024). Healthier and sustainable food at work and beyond: A study of user and organisational practices in a Norwegian municipal canteen. Journal of Cleaner Production. ISSN 0959-6526. 444. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140789.
• Westskog, Hege; Solnørdal, Mette Talseth; Vindegg, Mikkel; Tønnesen, Anders; Sandnes, Thea & Grasbekk, Bård Sødal [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). Local food systems and community development: a symbiotic relation? A case study of three rural municipalities in Norway. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. ISSN 0798-1759. 30(1), p. 19–42. doi: 10.48416/ijsaf.v30i1.534. Full text in Research Archive
• Vågerö, Oskar; Bråte, Anders; Wittemann, Alexandra; Robinson, Jessica Yarin; Zeyringer, Marianne & Sirotko-Sibirskaya, Natalia (2024). Machine learning of public sentiments towards wind energy in Norway. Wind Energy. ISSN 1095-4244. doi: 10.1002/we.2902. Show summary

  Across Europe, negative public opinion has and may continue to limit the deployment of renewable energy infrastructure required for the transition to net-zero energy systems. Understanding public sentiment and its spatio-temporal variations is as such important for decision-making and for developing socially accepted energy systems. In this study, we apply a sentiment classification model based on a machine learning framework for natural language processing, NorBERT, on data collected from Twitter between 2006 and 2022 to analyse the case of wind power opposition in Norway. From the 68,828 tweets with geospatial information, we show how discussions about wind power intensified in 2018/2019 together with a trend of more negative tweets up until 2020, both on a regional level and for Norway as a whole. Furthermore, we find weak geographical clustering in our data, indicating that discussions are country wide and not dominated by specific regional events or developments. Twitter data allow for detailed insight into the temporal nature of public sentiments and extending this research to additional case studies of technologies, countries and sources of data (e.g. newspapers, other social media) may prove important to complement traditional survey research and the understanding of public sentiment.

• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Hansen, Arve & Sandnes, Thea (2024). Swamped in dinosaurs with LED lights: negotiating sustainability in a high-consumption society. Consumption and Society. doi: 10.1332/27528499Y2024D000000008.
• Jordhus-Lier, David; Henriksson, Judith Marguerite; Houeland, Camilla; Quirino, Genver & Holland, Ingrid Andrea (2024). Anchoring a just transition: The ambivalent roles of Norwegian trade unions. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 114. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103619. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We examine how trade union actors at various scales of organisation and influence have engaged in the just transition agenda in Norway. The Norwegian model of industrial relations represents a democratic and highly institutionalised system of social dialogue, and allows us to assess the extent to which a just transition agenda is anchored at different levels, from tripartite decision-making to representation in the workplace. By introducing two analytical devices, anchorage and climate target compliance, we encourage just transition scholars to critically examine how trade union strategies, institutional contexts and normative outcomes are related in complex and non-linear ways. As a petroleum-dependent economy with ambitious political targets to reduce greenhouse gas emission, the Norwegian case is illustrative of the potential for trade union actors to proactively engage in climate target compliance through its role in just transition initiatives. Based on qualitative data from complementary research projects, our analysis suggests that the ambitions of key actors remain disconnected from the experienced reality of those who represent unions in bargaining or at a local level. The concept of a just transition still lacks internal anchorage between and across levels and segments of these organisations, as members and their elected representatives generally struggle to detect a clear mandate related to environmental concerns or emission reductions. Despite promising reformulations of policies and agreements at a central level, there is still little indication that Norwegian trade unions play a decisive role in making Norway meet their climate targets.

• Jordhus-Lier, David; Henriksson, Judith Marguerite; Houeland, Camilla; Quirino, Genver & Holland, Ingrid Andrea (2024). Anchoring a just transition: The ambivalent roles of Norwegian trade unions. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 114. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103619.
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Hoff, Sindre Johan Cottis (2024). Circular additions to linear systems? Exploring Norwegian households' engagement with circularity in everyday life. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 115, p. 1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103641. Show summary

  The circular economy (CE) has gained a prominent position in the broader literature, discourse, and policy arenas concerned with sustainable production and consumption. With roots in industrial ecology, the goal of CE is to shift away from linear ‘take-make-waste’ systems towards a regenerative system where resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimised by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops, achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling. Household consumption plays a central role in a shift towards the CE, but the complexities of consumption in everyday life are often overlooked in CE research. This article employs a practice theoretical lens to analyse the ways in which circularity is integrated into everyday life, for what purposes and with what effects. The data material consists of qualitative interviews with residents, and municipal and voluntary actors in Asker, Norway. We find that circularity was integrated by means of excitement and mastery, practical solutions, or financial savings on particular occasions, but was not necessarily considered a significant contributor to sustainability, nor did it replace linear forms of consumption. Households carved out space for circularity that largely left spatial or temporal rhythms of everyday life, established social norms, relations, or embodied knowledge unchallenged. Rather, circularity was integrated to maintain, rationalize, or simplify existing practices while upholding the throughput of household goods and resources, or pursue goals that had little to do with reduced resource use, representing circular additions to existing linear systems.

• Szulecki, Kacper; Neerland, Maria Aspen; Tomter, Håkon; Wæringsaasen, Cecilie Agathe Blomberg; Żuk, Paweł & Żuk, Piotr (2024). Ageism, welfare, and the energy transition: a comparative analysis of the perceptions among the elderly in Poland and Norway. Energy, sustainability and society. ISSN 2192-0567. 14(1). doi: 10.1186/s13705-024-00468-x. Show summary

  Background> One of the potential dimensions on which exclusion and injustice may occur in energy transitionsis age. Age-based patterns of exclusion—ageism—has recently been conceptualized in the context of decar-bonization as energy ageism. This paper offers a comparative empirical analysis of the senior citizens’ outlooktowards an imminent energy transition as well as the impact of energy poverty in two European countries: Norway and Poland. Results: Drawing on interviews and focus groups with Polish and Norwegian seniors, we present the differencesand similarities between the two countries, and the determinants of energy ageism, as well as the concept’s overallapplicability and empirical usefulness. We find that socioeconomic conditions outweigh ageism, that is, the resil-ience of senior citizens in dealing with energy poverty during a transition is conditioned by their material standingand welfare state robustness rather than age based. An important factor is household heating technology, combinedwith economic vulnerability can push some individuals into energy poverty, while others using alternative sourcesof heat can navigate through energy crises unscathed. Conclusions: We note the importance of mainstreaming social inclusion considerations in energy policy and of tar-geted digital competence building which can enhance senior citizen integration in the energy transition. Lowerlevels of digital competences among senior citizens certainly play a role and need to be addressed with educationprograms to increase participation. In both countries, household heating is a major issue and heating sources arestrong predictors of energy poverty and regulatory measures and subsidies should be designed at national, regional,and municipal level to assist vulnerable groups in this area.

• Mathisen, Siri Gulaker; Zeyringer, Marianne; Haaskjold, Kristina; Löffler, Konstantin; Mata, Érika & Sandvall, Akram [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2024). The REPowerEU policy's impact on the Nordic power system. Energy Strategy Reviews. ISSN 2211-467X. 54. doi: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101454. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Energy system models provide us with scenarios for the future energy system, supporting our understanding of the impact of societal changes and adopted policies. To front-load the EU’Fit for 55’ package for 2030 and targets of replacing imported natural gas with renewable electricity, the Nordic countries could contribute by exporting additional electricity to mainland Europe. This paper describes a comparative study including five energy system models – GENeSYS-MOD, ON-TIMES, IFE-TIMES-Norway, highRES, and IntERACT, exploring two decarbonisation scenarios leading up to 2050. The scenarios involved simulating an additional 30 TWh electricity export requirement from 2030. Key findings include Denmark and Norway emerging as major net exporters, with Denmark covering over 60% of the additional export. The models predict that 76%–82% of the new electricity production will come from wind power, split between onshore and offshore installations, highlighting significant investment requirements. These results underscore the Nordic countries’ capacity to support the EU’s renewable energy targets, with wind power being pivotal. This research offers a broad overview over different modelling tools and their behaviour and provides critical insights for policymakers, stressing the need for coordinated Nordic efforts to maximise the benefits of increased electricity exports while ensuring energy system stability and cost-efficiency.

• Larsen, Mari Lie & Dupuy, Kendra E (2023). Greening industry: Opportunities and challenges in electricity access for Norwegian industry firms. Journal of Cleaner Production. ISSN 0959-6526. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136534. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Access to clean electricity is fundamental for reducing the carbon footprint of industry, both for existing industrial operations and for producing new climate- and environmentally friendly goods and services. But the allocation of electricity as a limited resource hinges on institutional rules. In this article we examine how the process of electricity allocation impacts the establishment, growth and geographical location of new green industry firms. We examine how process impacts electricity access for green industrial firms in the context of Norway, a country with a seemingly well-functioning electricity grid sourced from renewable energy and clear political climate goals for greening industry. Through an exploratory study based on an extensive document review and in-depth qualitative interviews with key informants, we find that the management of the electrical grid, from the quantity of available electricity to the process by which firms access electricity, hinders green industry firms in accessing power. This is for three reasons: 1) regional variation in the absolute amount of available electricity; 2) unclear rules and queue systems for accessing the grid; and 3) a lengthy and potentially costly process for gaining access. These findings indicate that formal and informal rules determine the establishment of green industry firms in industrialized countries, and could hinder progress on climate goals.

• Hovelsrud , Grete K. & Westskog, Hege (2023). The role of adaptive governance in climate mitigation and adaptation: a local perspective. In Sirkku, Juhola (Eds.), Handbook of Adaptive Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 978 1 80088 823 4. p. 192–206.
• Vågerö, Oskar & Zeyringer, Marianne (2023). Can we optimise for justice? Reviewing the inclusion of energy justice in energy system optimisation models. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 95. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2022.102913. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2023). Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. In Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Ed.), Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-031-11069-6.
• Hansen, Arve (2023). Capitalism, Consumption, and the Transformation of Everyday Life: The Political Economy of Social Practices. In Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Ed.), Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-031-11069-6.
• Tønnesen, Anders; Krogstad, Julie Runde & Christiansen, Petter (2023). Governing Urban Transport Packages in Norway: Understanding Conditions for Public Participation. In Hansson, Lisa; Sørensen, Claus Hedegaard & Rye, Tom (Ed.), Public participation in transport in times of change. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISSN 9781804550380. p. 137–156. doi: 10.1108/S2044-994120230000018010. Show summary

  Urban transport plays a key role in reducing climate gas emissions. However, public policies are developed and implemented in an increasingly complex, fragmented, and multilevelled society. This chapter focuses on how interactive political leadership can address challenges related to spatial justice, network cooperation, and communication to increase legitimate and robust policies. Through in-depth case studies of the Norwegian urban regions of Trondheim and Nord-Jaeren, the importance of ensuring broad political alliances, handling spatial complexity, strong political leadership, as well as engaging in dialogue and communication with the public is shown. This may be more challenging to achieve in a complex institutional structure. We argue that governance structures reflect dynamics of the urban regions in which they are implemented. Related to our two empirical cases, the urban structure of Nord-Jaeren is more complex, compared to that of Trondheim, and likewise is their governance network. Linking the conditions of interactive political leadership to the three interconnected urban governance challenges, we see that contextual characteristics are important to explain differences in political leadership and public engagement.

• Wolday, Fitwi & Böcker, Lars (2023). Exploring changes in residential preference during COVID-19: Implications to contemporary urban planning. Environment and planning. B: Urban analytics and city science. ISSN 2399-8083. 50(5), p. 1280–1297. doi: 10.1177/23998083231164398. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has reshuffled our daily routines and activity spaces. The home and its immediate environment have attained a critical role in coping with the confinement both as living, working and recreational space. Drawing on a longitudinal survey from greater Oslo, we analyze shifts in residential preferences amidst COVID-19. Given the pandemic induced movement restrictions, we pay special attention to the mediating role of perceived accessibility on the link between several sociodemographic/locational/housing characteristics on preference shifts. Amidst a drop in perceived accessibility, outdoor assets like gardens or balconies, and motility by car and public transport are amongst the residential and locational amenities that have gained most in people’s considerations for a new dwelling peri-pandemically. Dwelling satisfaction and preferences with regard to neighborhood density, dwelling size, and work-proximity, have remained largely unchanged despite a clear trend towards more teleworking. Our results can be understood as a nod of approval to contemporary compact urban planning. Nonetheless challenges as to bolstering its resilience still linger and more needs to be done to mitigate the inequalities in (perceived) access to in-home, near-home, and mobility assets that we have also observed to have (re)-immerged in the wake of the pandemic.

• Hansen, Arve & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2023). ‘It's just pølse’: Convenient meat consumption and reduction in Norway. Appetite. ISSN 0195-6663. 188. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106611. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Meat consumption and convenience food are both located at the heart of contemporary, industrialized, unhealthy and unsustainable food systems. In this article, we study the intersections between convenience food and ‘meatification’ of diets, focusing on the ‘pølse’—an umbrella term including both hotdogs and a range of sausages—as the epitome of convenience food in Norway. We explore how the pølse is embedded in Norwegian food practices, and why it is considered convenient in different contexts. In doing so, we seek to explain how pølse eating is co-shaped by socio-material scripting processes that further entrench meat in food practices and complicate meat-reduction efforts. The analysis is based on 52 in-depth household interviews and autophotography in four geographical contexts in Norway, in addition to 22 park interviews and survey data centering on household food and meat practices. We use a theoretical apparatus combining social practice theory, foodscapes and socio-material scripts to analyse the conveniencization of pølse. The articles demonstrates how meat consumption and convenience food become entwined in specific social practices, and how conveniencization intersects with practices of care, notions of class, social expectations and normativity. Moreover, we show that despite the range of plant-based ‘pølse’ substitutes on offer, meat-eaters remain skeptical to its taste, and substitutes rather seem to offer a way into established social occasions for non-meat eaters than a way out of meat eating.

• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Leikanger, Iris & Westskog, Hege (2023). Institutional context, innovations, and energy transitions: Exploring solar photovoltaics with hydrogen storage at a secondary school in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 101. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103147. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Public administrative action is crucial in facilitating sustainability transitions. Although organizational structures, cultures and established practices have been shown to lead to differing innovation results and technological diffusion at various levels of governance, little attention has been paid to the role of local government and administration in sustainable energy transitions. This study analyses renewable energy innovation at the local level of public administration in Norway. Drawing on the institutional and entrepreneurial literature, we examine the key formal decisions and organizational culture development that, combined with policy entrepreneurship, ultimately led to an unlikely and risky decision: to include a costly and unusual local energy system in the construction of a new secondary school. Tracing the administrative processes over 20 years, and drawing on document data supported by 14 interviews, we find that the strong and politically shielded administrative section, backed by a firm mandate and an established internal culture of innovation anchored in historic and local identity among the population and local industry, led to this decision. These factors were further facilitated by acts of policy entrepreneurship at crucial moments, shaping the underlying structures and institutional culture. The independence and strong direction of the administrative section can be emulated in other contexts in order to facilitate innovation. With suitable adaptations to other contexts, our findings may help to accelerate energy transitions through system innovations elsewhere.

• Bailey, Ian; Nutkins, Robert & Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2023). The anchoring effect of climate change acts: a policy streams analysis of Ireland’s climate act reform. Climate Policy. ISSN 1469-3062. doi: 10.1080/14693062.2023.2261886. Show summary

  The number of political jurisdictions introducing climate change acts (CCAs) has grown in recent years. As framework legislation, CCAs seek to exert anchoring effects on climate policy development by establishing general goals, principles and obligations that subsequent policies to reduce emissions must uphold. Despite expansive research on the negotiation of CCAs, limited analysis exists of factors shaping their anchoring effect or how tensions aligning other climate policies with CCA requirements are managed. This article addresses this by utilizing Kingdon’s multiple streams framework to analyze the negotiation of the Irish Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021, a CCA with contentious provisions for sectoral emissions ceilings. It examines how political agreement was secured on the need for stronger climate action (problem stream), the concept of the Act (policy stream), and individual provisions (political stream). The analysis nevertheless indicates that different interpretations of ‘the problem’ emerged in discussions on the impacts of sector emissions ceilings and carbon taxation. Consensus in the political stream equally proved challenging where representatives used the Act’s provisions to question other parties’ commitments to climate action, just transition and procedural fairness. The article highlights two broader considerations for the anchoring effect of CCAs: the importance of maintaining a consistent focus on climate change to prevent problems with policies to address climate change from dominating CCA debates; and whether to restrict CCAs to general principles that diminish their anchoring effect compared with incorporating detailed obligations that may increase political tensions over the CCA and future policies.

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• Hansen, Arve & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2023). Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-031-11069-6. 387 p.

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• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2024). A new wind power licensing system: Implications for local support and future developments.
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2024). Klimabudsjett som verktøy for klimaomstilling i norske kommuner.
• Winther, Tanja (2024). Er Norges strømpolitikk for de priviligerte?
• Jordhus-Lier, David & Henriksson, Judith Marguerite (2024). Partssamarbeidets rolle i kommunenes klimaomstilling . Show summary

  David Jordhus-Lier er samfunnsgeograf og professor ved Universitetet i Oslo. Han er med i Include – Forskningssenter for sosialt inkluderende energiomstilling og har sammen med kolleger forsket på fagbevegelsens rolle i det grønne skiftet, både i oljebransjen og i kommunal sektor. I sitt innlegg vil han oppsummere hovedfunnene fra et nylig avsluttet prosjekt om det lokale partssamarbeidet i norske kommuner. Har Hovedavtalens formål om å innlemme klima- og miljøspørsmål i samarbeidet mellom partene blitt omsatt i lokal praksis? Forskningen tyder ikke på det og i innlegget vil han reflektere over hvorfor.

• Bakken, Vebjørn; Winther, Tanja & Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2024). Rettferdig energiomstilling – er det mulig? [podcast]. [Internet]. https://www.uio.no/forskning/satsinger/uio-energi-og-miljo/a.
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2024). Energifattigdom og respons på forbrukerrådets undersøkelse i leiemarkedet - en rundebordskonferanse. Show summary

  Sammenlignet PowerPoor-prosjektets funn med Forbrukerrådets foreløpige funn og diskuterte mulige politiske virkemidler-

• Aasen, Marianne & Westskog, Hege (2024). Befolkning og lokalt klimaarbeid. Brukerseminar Include.
• Szulecki, Kacper (2024). Populism and the politics of energy transition .
• Szulecki, Kacper; Szulecka, Julia & Maltby, Tomas (2024). Climate obstruction in Poland.
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2024). Hvem har makt i norsk klimapolitikk?
• Winther, Tanja (2024). Norwegian perceptions of electricity – and justice aspects of demand-side management.
• Westskog, Hege (2024). Hva er omstilling og hvordan kan vi få det til i praksis? .
• Westskog, Hege (2024). By og land hand i hand? Omstilling fra et lokalt perspektiv.
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald (2024). Politikk for naturkrisen og klimakrisen: Vinn-vinn løsninger eller målkonflikter?
• Aasen, Marianne & Westskog, Hege (2024). Folk om forbruk og omstilling – Resultater fra gruppeintervjuer og spørreundersøkelse .
• Aasen, Marianne (2024). Norske klimaparadokser.
• Nygård, Julie Høie (2024). Presentasjon av funn fra feltarbeid i fire klimabudsjettkommuner.
• Halse, Askill Harkjerr (2024). Konseptvalgutredninger og samfunnsøkonomiske analyser.
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Taranger, Karianne Krohn (2024). Where do the weight of the actor interests lead us? Political pathway feasibility of electrification, hydrogen, bioenergy, or energy savings .
• Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson (2024). Energy poverty and its effects on the energy transition.
• Eikeland, Per Ove & Jevnaker, Torbjørg (2024). Agencies in EU Policy - the role of ACER in implementing electricity market regulation.
• Eikeland, Per Ove (2024). Europeisk håndtering av energikriser – drivere og barrierer for koordinert politisk respons .
• Tortzen, Anne; Smørdal, Ole; Solberg, Nina; Tellefsen, Sølvi; Leikanger, Iris & Sønstegaard, Hanne Marie (2023). Medvirkning og samskaping i klimaarbeidet – fra politiske ambisjoner til praksis. Show summary

  Lillestrøm kommune har høye ambisjoner om å utvikle nye samarbeidsformer med innbyggerne i klimaomstillingsarbeidet. Barn og unges innflytelse skal styrkes. Biblioteksjefen leder arbeidet med å vurdere om klimaspill kan være en egnet plattform, og hvordan utviklingen av spill kan samskapes med ungdom. Vi har invitert biblioteksjef Sølvi Tellefsen til å fortelle om prosjekt Klimaspill. Den danske forskeren Anne Tortzen fra Center for Borgerdialog har studert danske eksempler på klimarelatert samskaping og medvirkning, og gir ut boka med arbeidstittel «Klima, demokrati og samskapelse – kommunen som katalysator for borgernes klimaengasjement» på nyåret. Hun reflekterer over behovet for demokratisk fornyelse og polycentrisk styring, og hva vi eventuelt kan lære av danskene.

• Monica, Bjermeland; Amundrud, Anja; Smørdal, Ole & Tellefsen, Sølvi (2023). Bør alle kommuner skaffe seg en gaming-ekspert? Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.
• Bjermeland, Monica; Amundrud, Anja; Smørdal, Ole & Tellefsen, Sølvi (2023). DET GRØNNE SKIFTET: En gamingekspert i hver kommune? Show summary

  Hvor innovasjonsvillige er norske kommuner, egentlig? Tør politikerne å ta et steg til siden for å la ungdom påvirke den lokale klimapolitikken, slik den nye kommuneloven sier at de skal? Forskerne Ole Smørdal og Anja Amundrud ved forskningssenteret Include og biblioteksjef Sølvi Tellefsen svarer «tja». De tre samarbeider nå om å utvikle et spill om klima som skal føre unge og kommunepolitikere nærmere hverandre i jakten på en effektiv klimapolitikk. Programleder er Monica Bjermeland.

• Eikeland, Per Ove (2023). Europeisk håndtering av energikrise – drivere og barrierer for koordinert politisk respons.
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  Sofies grønne skifte: Omstilling for fattig og for rik Hvordan får vi folk gjennom den grønne omstillingen på en god måte? At det ikke blir for smertefullt, og kun for de som har mest? Hvordan skal vi klare å endre oss på en måte som gjør at folk faktisk ønsker å bli med? I tredje episode av podkasten Sofies grønne skifte snakker Sofie Frøysaa med Thor Håkon Jackson Inderberg fra Fridtjof Nansens Institutt og Katinka Holtsmark, postdoktor ved Økonomisk institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo. Lytt til episoden:

• Sundet, Øyvind (2023). Kjøttforbruk: hvorfor er det vanskelig å redusere – selv for de som ønsker det?
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• Szulecki, Kacper; Szulecka, Julia & Maltby, Tomas (2023). Climate Obstruction in Poland: A Climate Imposter Clings to Coal. Show summary

  Poland is known for its history of climate skepticism and denial throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Despite its recent rapid deployment of renewable energy sources, Poland remains Europe’s most coal-dependent economy. Since the country’s accession to the EU in 2004, consecutive governments in Warsaw have been “pulling the brake” on the EU’s more ambitious climate policy initiatives and decarbonization targets. However, there are signs of changing societal attitudes, especially since 2018. Despite this trend, the country is alone among EU nations in not committing to a net-zero emissions target or a coal power phase-out date. As this chapter will describe, this situation has been created and perpetuated by a dominant coalition of governmental institutions, agencies, state-owned energy companies, and utilities that constitute a “governmental-industrial complex” (GIC). While there has been a shift in discourse and policy emanating from the GIC, it continues to promote “silver bullets” in the form of promising future technologies such as “clean” coal and unrealistic plans for new nuclear power plants. Poland’s stated commitment to a just (and gradual) energy transition is another of these “climate imposter” tactics, which the chapter will show are part of an overarching strategy of delay.

• Jordhus-Lier, David & Henriksson, Judith Marguerite (2024). Partssamarbeidets rolle i kommunenes klimaomstilling. Senter for utvikling og miljø, Universitetet i Oslo. Show summary

  Denne rapporten inngår som en del av forskningsprosjektet “Grønt partssamarbeid” i arbeidspakken “Kommunen som endringsaktør” ved Include – forskningssenter for sosialt inkluderende energiomstilling. Rapporten er et resultat av et samarbeid mellom forskere ved Universitetet i Oslo, Utdanningsforbundet, NITO, Fagforbundet og KS og undersøker utvalgte kommuners klimaarbeid, særlig knyttet til graden av medvirkning og partssamarbeid i innføringen av klima- og miljøtiltak på kommune- og virksomhetsnivå. Bakgrunnen for notatet er et ønske blant prosjektets samarbeidspartnere om å undersøke og løfte frem eksempler på hvordan klima- og miljøtiltak kan drøftes i det kommunale partssamarbeidet, i samsvar med formålsparagrafen i Hovedavtalen mellom KS og forhandlingssammenslutningene. Partene gjør det her klart at de er enige om at klima- og miljøtiltak som fremmer bærekraftsmålene, inngår som en del av partssamarbeidet.

• Aasen, Marianne; Westskog, Hege & Ytreberg, Nora Svarstad (2024). Folk om forbruk og omstilling Resultater fra gruppeintervjuer og spørreundersøkelse. Include - Forskningssenter for sosialt inkluderende energiomstilling, Rapport 3/2024.
• Gulbrandsen, Lars Harald; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Opsahl, Gustav (2024). Norske kommuners erfaringer med vindkraft: Resultater fra en nasjonal survey. Fridtjof Nansens Institutt. ISSN 978-82-7613-764-4.
• Vindegg, Mikkel; Sundet, Øyvind & Winther, Tanja (2023). Strømkunders oppfatninger om ny nettleiemodell: rettferdighet og fleksibilitet. CICERO Senter for klimaforskning. 2023(02). Show summary

  Rapporten oppsummerer funn fra kvalitative undersøkelser knyttet til kunders oppfatninger om ny nettleiemodell for strøm i Norge. Samlet viser resultatene at mange av kundene har en viss grad av bekymring for at den nye nettleien kan få uheldige og urettferdige fordelingsvirkninger. Kundene tar hensyn til faktorer (f.eks. husholdningssammensetning) som ligger utenfor nettselskapenes nåværende mandat å inkludere i tariffberegninger. Kundenes uttrykte bekymringer taler for gradvise endringer i nettariffer framover, framfor omfattende endringer som vil kunne gi store utslag som mange vil oppfatte som urimelige.

• Skjærseth, Jon Birger; Eikeland, Per Ove; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson & Larsen, Mari Lie (2023). Norway's Internal and External Hydrogen Strategy. Research Institute for Sustainability Studies (RIFS).
• Merita, Fjetland; Sandnes, Thea & Westskog, Hege (2023). Småskala matproduksjon: potensial som omstillingsstrategi? En gjennomgang av nasjonale jordbrukspolitiske forslag i lys av klima- og miljøomstilling. . Include.

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