Guri Bang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guri Bang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guri |
| FAMILY NAME | Bang |
| SIGNATURE | BANG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | CICERO Center for International Climate Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9975-7497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Lifetime of Research on Environmental Politics
The late Arild Underdal profoundly impacted how scholars and policymakers understand international and domestic environmental governance. We summarize his influence on studies of leadership in international negotiations, policy integration, treaty design, climate clubs, regime effectiveness, and the domestic politics of international environmental agreements. For each topic, we also offer brief suggestions for future research based on Arild’s aca…
Will ‘America first’ leave America behind? Exploring discourses of a fossil-fueled heartland
Aligned with the “America First” doctrine, the Republican Party's opposition to climate policies has intensified to unprecedented levels under President Trump. Using a geopolitical ecology framework and discourse analysis of Congressional Records (2015-2024) this article investigates how populist and radical right ideologies have reshaped Republican climate policy discourse over time, shifting from economic to identity-based opposition. We identi…
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries
This article considers the puzzle of Norway and Canada, two countries that have adopted ambitious Paris Agreement targets yet are also major fossil fuel exporters. To date, both countries have taken full advantage of the international convention that assigns responsibility only for emissions within a country’s borders. However, climate activists, First Nations, and green politicians increasingly have challenged fossil fuel production via campaign…
Achieving the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement
The United States
The Paris agreement and key actors’ domestic climate policy mixes
California’s Cap-and-Trade System
This article investigates the roles of policy diffusion and policy learning in shaping the design of California’s cap-and-trade system. On the surface, it is very similar to other cap-and-trade programs, but in practice many detailed differences reflect active efforts by California policy-makers to avoid flaws that they saw in other systems, such as the EU ETS and the US East Coast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. We assess how California’s …
The Paris Agreement
The 2015 Paris Agreement was widely greeted with enthusiasm. We assess the short-term and long-term potential effectiveness of Paris. Concerning short-term effectiveness, we contend that while Paris scores high on participation, and reasonably high on the depth of the parties’ commitments (ambition), its Achilles’ heel will likely be compliance. Concerning long-term effectiveness, we argue that Paris does little to restructure states’ incentives …
The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change
Internasjonale klimaforhandlinger
Nasjonale drivkrefter i USAs klimapolitikk
Da Obama overtok som president i 2009, var ett av hovedmålene å styrke amerikansk klimapolitikk. Fem år senere er målet fortsatt ikke blitt realisert. For å forklare denne manglende måloppnåelsen undersøker vi tre forhold: Først analyserer vi koalisjonsbyggingsstrategiene som ble brukt i Kongressen for å bygge bro over tradisjonelle konfliktlinjer i amerikansk klimapolitikk, og finner at det var nær umulig for senatsledelsen å bygge kompromisser …
Look to S weden
Two renewable energy support schemes have spread across Europe: green certificate schemes ( GCSs ) and feed‐in tariffs ( FITs ). After a decade‐long policy‐making process, N orwegian decision makers decided in 2011 to adopt a GCS compatible with the already existing one in S weden and thereby establish a joint N orwegian‐Swedish GCS . The article explores this process of policy transfer, and asks to what extent competition and policy learning con…
Explaining Growing Climate Policy Differences Between the European Union and the United States
Strong rhetorical differences between the European Union and the United States on climate matters have been evident for almost two decades. Since the mid-2000s, such differences are becoming visible in their respective climate policies as well. We propose three explanations for differences in climate policy outcomes in the EU and the US. First, the agenda-setting privileges of their policy-makers are significantly different, influencing how agend…
Why the United States did not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol
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 26 German, Norwegian, and US participants in and observers of the climate negotiations concerning their views on three explanations for why the United States did not become a party to Kyoto. Explanation 1 argues that Kyoto delegat…
Signed but Not Ratified
Why does the United States sign environmental treaties but not ratify them? U.S. presidents have negotiated and signed several environmental treaties that ultimately could not obtain Senate ratification. This article considers two alternative explanations. First, presidents may face divided government and upcoming elections; elections can increase uncertainty regarding ratification, because they upset majorities and change congressional preferenc…
Enforcing the Kyoto Protocol
To enhance effective cooperation, the Marrakesh Accords provide a compliance system for the international climate regime. An innovative part of this system is an Enforcement Branch authorised to apply punitive consequences against countries that fail to comply with their Kyoto obligations. While previous research has primarily focused on the ability of this compliance system to deter non-compliance, this article discusses whether the actual use o…
Future U.S. Climate Policy
What is the outlook for engaging the United States in international cooperation to mitigate climate change? The question is crucial, as any global effort to curb global warming will be unsatisfactory without U.S. participation. It is also a pressing question for Kyoto party countries, currently at a loss regarding how to re-engage the U.S. We discuss the constellations of domestic pressure factors that influence policy outcome in favor of or agai…
Institutional adaptation to climate change
Institutional adaptation to climate change
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries
This article considers the puzzle of Norway and Canada, two countries that have adopted ambitious Paris Agreement targets yet are also major fossil fuel exporters. To date, both countries have taken full advantage of the international convention that assigns responsibility only for emissions within a country’s borders. However, climate activists, First Nations, and green politicians increasingly have challenged fossil fuel production via campaign…
The Paris Agreement
The 2015 Paris Agreement was widely greeted with enthusiasm. We assess the short-term and long-term potential effectiveness of Paris. Concerning short-term effectiveness, we contend that while Paris scores high on participation, and reasonably high on the depth of the parties’ commitments (ambition), its Achilles’ heel will likely be compliance. Concerning long-term effectiveness, we argue that Paris does little to restructure states’ incentives …
Why the United States did not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol
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 26 German, Norwegian, and US participants in and observers of the climate negotiations concerning their views on three explanations for why the United States did not become a party to Kyoto. Explanation 1 argues that Kyoto delegat…
California’s Cap-and-Trade System
This article investigates the roles of policy diffusion and policy learning in shaping the design of California’s cap-and-trade system. On the surface, it is very similar to other cap-and-trade programs, but in practice many detailed differences reflect active efforts by California policy-makers to avoid flaws that they saw in other systems, such as the EU ETS and the US East Coast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. We assess how California’s …
Explaining Growing Climate Policy Differences Between the European Union and the United States
Strong rhetorical differences between the European Union and the United States on climate matters have been evident for almost two decades. Since the mid-2000s, such differences are becoming visible in their respective climate policies as well. We propose three explanations for differences in climate policy outcomes in the EU and the US. First, the agenda-setting privileges of their policy-makers are significantly different, influencing how agend…
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
Look to S weden
Two renewable energy support schemes have spread across Europe: green certificate schemes ( GCSs ) and feed‐in tariffs ( FITs ). After a decade‐long policy‐making process, N orwegian decision makers decided in 2011 to adopt a GCS compatible with the already existing one in S weden and thereby establish a joint N orwegian‐Swedish GCS . The article explores this process of policy transfer, and asks to what extent competition and policy learning con…
Signed but Not Ratified
Why does the United States sign environmental treaties but not ratify them? U.S. presidents have negotiated and signed several environmental treaties that ultimately could not obtain Senate ratification. This article considers two alternative explanations. First, presidents may face divided government and upcoming elections; elections can increase uncertainty regarding ratification, because they upset majorities and change congressional preferenc…
Future U.S. Climate Policy
What is the outlook for engaging the United States in international cooperation to mitigate climate change? The question is crucial, as any global effort to curb global warming will be unsatisfactory without U.S. participation. It is also a pressing question for Kyoto party countries, currently at a loss regarding how to re-engage the U.S. We discuss the constellations of domestic pressure factors that influence policy outcome in favor of or agai…
The United States
Nasjonale drivkrefter i USAs klimapolitikk
Da Obama overtok som president i 2009, var ett av hovedmålene å styrke amerikansk klimapolitikk. Fem år senere er målet fortsatt ikke blitt realisert. For å forklare denne manglende måloppnåelsen undersøker vi tre forhold: Først analyserer vi koalisjonsbyggingsstrategiene som ble brukt i Kongressen for å bygge bro over tradisjonelle konfliktlinjer i amerikansk klimapolitikk, og finner at det var nær umulig for senatsledelsen å bygge kompromisser …
Enforcing the Kyoto Protocol
To enhance effective cooperation, the Marrakesh Accords provide a compliance system for the international climate regime. An innovative part of this system is an Enforcement Branch authorised to apply punitive consequences against countries that fail to comply with their Kyoto obligations. While previous research has primarily focused on the ability of this compliance system to deter non-compliance, this article discusses whether the actual use o…
The Paris agreement and key actors’ domestic climate policy mixes
Future U.S. Climate Policy
What is the outlook for engaging the United States in international cooperation to mitigate climate change? The question is crucial, as any global effort to curb global warming will be unsatisfactory without U.S. participation. It is also a pressing question for Kyoto party countries, currently at a loss regarding how to re-engage the U.S. We discuss the constellations of domestic pressure factors that influence policy outcome in favor of or agai…
Institutional adaptation to climate change
Enforcing the Kyoto Protocol
To enhance effective cooperation, the Marrakesh Accords provide a compliance system for the international climate regime. An innovative part of this system is an Enforcement Branch authorised to apply punitive consequences against countries that fail to comply with their Kyoto obligations. While previous research has primarily focused on the ability of this compliance system to deter non-compliance, this article discusses whether the actual use o…
Signed but Not Ratified
Why does the United States sign environmental treaties but not ratify them? U.S. presidents have negotiated and signed several environmental treaties that ultimately could not obtain Senate ratification. This article considers two alternative explanations. First, presidents may face divided government and upcoming elections; elections can increase uncertainty regarding ratification, because they upset majorities and change congressional preferenc…
Why the United States did not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol
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 26 German, Norwegian, and US participants in and observers of the climate negotiations concerning their views on three explanations for why the United States did not become a party to Kyoto. Explanation 1 argues that Kyoto delegat…
Explaining Growing Climate Policy Differences Between the European Union and the United States
Strong rhetorical differences between the European Union and the United States on climate matters have been evident for almost two decades. Since the mid-2000s, such differences are becoming visible in their respective climate policies as well. We propose three explanations for differences in climate policy outcomes in the EU and the US. First, the agenda-setting privileges of their policy-makers are significantly different, influencing how agend…
Nasjonale drivkrefter i USAs klimapolitikk
Da Obama overtok som president i 2009, var ett av hovedmålene å styrke amerikansk klimapolitikk. Fem år senere er målet fortsatt ikke blitt realisert. For å forklare denne manglende måloppnåelsen undersøker vi tre forhold: Først analyserer vi koalisjonsbyggingsstrategiene som ble brukt i Kongressen for å bygge bro over tradisjonelle konfliktlinjer i amerikansk klimapolitikk, og finner at det var nær umulig for senatsledelsen å bygge kompromisser …
Look to S weden
Two renewable energy support schemes have spread across Europe: green certificate schemes ( GCSs ) and feed‐in tariffs ( FITs ). After a decade‐long policy‐making process, N orwegian decision makers decided in 2011 to adopt a GCS compatible with the already existing one in S weden and thereby establish a joint N orwegian‐Swedish GCS . The article explores this process of policy transfer, and asks to what extent competition and policy learning con…
The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change
Internasjonale klimaforhandlinger
The Paris Agreement
The 2015 Paris Agreement was widely greeted with enthusiasm. We assess the short-term and long-term potential effectiveness of Paris. Concerning short-term effectiveness, we contend that while Paris scores high on participation, and reasonably high on the depth of the parties’ commitments (ambition), its Achilles’ heel will likely be compliance. Concerning long-term effectiveness, we argue that Paris does little to restructure states’ incentives …
California’s Cap-and-Trade System
This article investigates the roles of policy diffusion and policy learning in shaping the design of California’s cap-and-trade system. On the surface, it is very similar to other cap-and-trade programs, but in practice many detailed differences reflect active efforts by California policy-makers to avoid flaws that they saw in other systems, such as the EU ETS and the US East Coast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. We assess how California’s …
Achieving the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement
The United States
The Paris agreement and key actors’ domestic climate policy mixes
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries
This article considers the puzzle of Norway and Canada, two countries that have adopted ambitious Paris Agreement targets yet are also major fossil fuel exporters. To date, both countries have taken full advantage of the international convention that assigns responsibility only for emissions within a country’s borders. However, climate activists, First Nations, and green politicians increasingly have challenged fossil fuel production via campaign…
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
A Lifetime of Research on Environmental Politics
The late Arild Underdal profoundly impacted how scholars and policymakers understand international and domestic environmental governance. We summarize his influence on studies of leadership in international negotiations, policy integration, treaty design, climate clubs, regime effectiveness, and the domestic politics of international environmental agreements. For each topic, we also offer brief suggestions for future research based on Arild’s aca…
Will ‘America first’ leave America behind? Exploring discourses of a fossil-fueled heartland
Aligned with the “America First” doctrine, the Republican Party's opposition to climate policies has intensified to unprecedented levels under President Trump. Using a geopolitical ecology framework and discourse analysis of Congressional Records (2015-2024) this article investigates how populist and radical right ideologies have reshaped Republican climate policy discourse over time, shifting from economic to identity-based opposition. We identi…
Political science (17 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Climate change (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (8 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (7 works)