Jon Birger Skjærseth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Birger Skjærseth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon Birger |
| FAMILY NAME | Skjærseth |
| SIGNATURE | SKJÆRSETH J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fridtjof Nansen Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3655-0314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Against all odds? Explaining the new clean hydrogen strategy of the European Union
Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry
Global investment in offshore wind energy is anticipated to surge in the coming decades. While improved technology, reduced costs, and generous policy support are frequently acknowledged as driving factors, many assert that there are fewer societal challenges with offshore renewable installations than with onshore ones. Drawing from a co-creation process with key Norwegian stakeholders and an interdisciplinary team of social science and humanitie…
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: From Tailwind to Headwind
Following the 2009 EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED), Norway has overachieved its national renewables target and taken the European lead in new wind power. This seems puzzling as Norway had a surplus of renewable energy and the government opposed the EU-induced national target. Employing a dynamic approach to implementation and its consequences, we examine three explanations. From an EU adaptation-pressure perspective, the RED enabled joint imp…
Biofuelling the energy transition in Nordic countries: Explaining overachievement of EU renewable transport obligations
Achieving the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement: The role of key actors
The politics of low-carbon innovation: Implementing the European Union’s strategic energy technology plan
Towards a European Green Deal: The evolution of EU climate and energy policy mixes
The Paris agreement and key actors’ domestic climate policy mixes: Comparative patterns
Big Oil and Climate Regulation: Business as Usual or a Changing Business
There is a long and continuing debate in the literature on corporate political power about whether businesses that advocate public-interest regulation do so for strategic political reasons or because they anticipate economic gains. Previous research on Big Oil’s strategies in climate politics has largely converged on the first view, arguing that global majors feign support for moderate carbon pricing largely to prevent the adoption of more drasti…
Knowledge-based management of protected areas and hydropower: The case of Norway
Oil and power industries’ responses to EU emissions trading: Laggards or Low-Carbon Leaders
How have petroleum and power companies and their European industry associations responded to the EU emissions trading system (ETS)? Responses can be political, directed externally towards the initiation and reforms of the EU ETS itself, or internally and market-based, directed at low-carbon solutions. Proactive response strategies shape companies’ leadership potential. Variation in responses is explained by two models that differ in assumptions a…
Creative and disruptive elements in Norway ́s climate policy mix: The Small-State Perspective
Recent scholarship has argued that effective and credible national climate policy mixes should encompass measures that promote new low-carbon technologies alongside those instruments aimed at constraining and phasing out support for existing polluting industries. The creative and disruptive policy measures in Norway ́s climate policy mix are analysed by focusing on both national and international climate mitigation efforts. Norway ́s climate poli…
International Regimes and Norway's Environmental Policy: Crossfire and Coherence
Regulating the invisible: Interaction between the EU and Norway in managing nano-risks
Implementing EU climate and energy policies in Poland: Policy Feedback and Reform
European Union (EU) climate/energy targets and policies are poised for the first full climate policy cycle – from adoption and implementation of the policy package for 2020, to reform for 2030. A dynamic approach to the ways in which EU policies affect policy development is developed by applying theories of domestic implementation, policy feedback and integration. Implementation experiences in Poland – the ‘least climate ambitious’ EU member stat…
The European Commission’s Shifting Climate Leadership
The European Commission has played a crucial role in promoting ambitious EU climate targets and policies that boost the credibility of EU leadership-by-example efforts internationally. The approach has gradually shifted from leadership toward more strategic behavior that reflects the preferences of the member states. Reduced uncertainty concerning member-state preferences and solutions accounts for much of the change in leadership. Uncertainty ha…
The Paris Agreement: Consequences for the EU and Carbon Markets
Most observers argue that this agreement is a step in the right direction. However, we do not know how effective it will be in terms of reducing emissions. We therefore discuss its potential effectiveness regarding EU climate policies and carbon markets. We argue that the Paris Agreement may have a positive effect but uncertainties abound
Linking EU climate and energy policies: Policy-making, implementation and reform
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 negotiate a legally binding mercury convention
Governance by EU emissions trading: Resistance or innovation in the oil industry
Fixing the EU Emissions Trading System? Understanding the Post-2012 Changes
This article explains why the significant changes in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the 2013–2020 phase were adopted in 2008. The combination of a more stringent EU-wide cap, allocation of emission allowances for payment, and limits on imports of credits from third countries have strengthened the system for the post-2012 period. This will promote reduction in greenhouse gases compared to the old system. The main reasons for these ch…
Making the EU Emissions Trading System: The European Commission as an entrepreneurial epistemic leader
Exploring the consequences of soft law and hard law: Implementing international nutrient commitments in Norwegian agriculture
The Origin, Evolution and Consequences of the EU Emissions Trading System
The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the cornerstone of EU climate policy, a grand policy experiment, as the first and largest international emissions trading system in the world. In this article, we seek to provide a broad overview of the initiation, decision-making and implementation of the EU ETS so far. We explore why the EU changed from a laggard to a leader in emissions trading, how it managed to establish the system rapidly, and the…
Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence
This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines that environmental regimes actually do better than the …
Soft Law, Hard Law, and Effective Implementation of International Environmental Norms
The article compares the interplay between soft law institutions and those based on hard law in international efforts to protect the North Sea, reduce transboundary air pollution, and discipline fisheries subsidies. Our cases confirm that ambitious norms are more easily achieved in soft law institutions than in legally binding ones, but not primarily because they bypass domestic ratification or fail to raise concerns for compliance costs. More im…
Towards a European Green Deal: The evolution of EU climate and energy policy mixes
Fixing the EU Emissions Trading System? Understanding the Post-2012 Changes
This article explains why the significant changes in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the 2013–2020 phase were adopted in 2008. The combination of a more stringent EU-wide cap, allocation of emission allowances for payment, and limits on imports of credits from third countries have strengthened the system for the post-2012 period. This will promote reduction in greenhouse gases compared to the old system. The main reasons for these ch…
Making the EU Emissions Trading System: The European Commission as an entrepreneurial epistemic leader
Big Oil and Climate Regulation: Business as Usual or a Changing Business
There is a long and continuing debate in the literature on corporate political power about whether businesses that advocate public-interest regulation do so for strategic political reasons or because they anticipate economic gains. Previous research on Big Oil’s strategies in climate politics has largely converged on the first view, arguing that global majors feign support for moderate carbon pricing largely to prevent the adoption of more drasti…
The Origin, Evolution and Consequences of the EU Emissions Trading System
The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the cornerstone of EU climate policy, a grand policy experiment, as the first and largest international emissions trading system in the world. In this article, we seek to provide a broad overview of the initiation, decision-making and implementation of the EU ETS so far. We explore why the EU changed from a laggard to a leader in emissions trading, how it managed to establish the system rapidly, and the…
Climate Change and the Oil Industry: Common Problems, Different Strategies
The primary focus of most academic climate policy studies has been the robustness of climate science and the development of international negotiations and institutions, in which states, and sometimes societies, have been pinpointed as the key players. Systematic comparative studies of multinational and even global non-governmental actors have been in short supply. This research lacuna is particularly glaring since the position of a major non-stat…
The European Commission’s Shifting Climate Leadership
The European Commission has played a crucial role in promoting ambitious EU climate targets and policies that boost the credibility of EU leadership-by-example efforts internationally. The approach has gradually shifted from leadership toward more strategic behavior that reflects the preferences of the member states. Reduced uncertainty concerning member-state preferences and solutions accounts for much of the change in leadership. Uncertainty ha…
Implementing EU climate and energy policies in Poland: Policy Feedback and Reform
European Union (EU) climate/energy targets and policies are poised for the first full climate policy cycle – from adoption and implementation of the policy package for 2020, to reform for 2030. A dynamic approach to the ways in which EU policies affect policy development is developed by applying theories of domestic implementation, policy feedback and integration. Implementation experiences in Poland – the ‘least climate ambitious’ EU member stat…
Is EU enlargement bad for environmental policy? Confronting gloomy expectations with evidence
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…
Implementing EU emissions trading: Success or failure
Linking EU climate and energy policies: Policy-making, implementation and reform
Creative and disruptive elements in Norway ́s climate policy mix: The Small-State Perspective
Recent scholarship has argued that effective and credible national climate policy mixes should encompass measures that promote new low-carbon technologies alongside those instruments aimed at constraining and phasing out support for existing polluting industries. The creative and disruptive policy measures in Norway ́s climate policy mix are analysed by focusing on both national and international climate mitigation efforts. Norway ́s climate poli…
Understanding the Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy: How Can Regime Analysis Contribute
The study of EU environmental policy consequences tends to focus on how EU legislation output is formally implemented in the Member States and its impact in terms of the state of the European environment. The crucial outcome dimension linking output to impact has, however, received scant attention. Outcome points to changes in the behaviour of relevant target groups causing the problems in the first place. Accordingly, we know little about the ca…
Conditions for just offshore wind energy: Addressing the societal challenges of the North Sea wind industry
Global investment in offshore wind energy is anticipated to surge in the coming decades. While improved technology, reduced costs, and generous policy support are frequently acknowledged as driving factors, many assert that there are fewer societal challenges with offshore renewable installations than with onshore ones. Drawing from a co-creation process with key Norwegian stakeholders and an interdisciplinary team of social science and humanitie…
Implementing the EU renewable energy directive in Norway: From Tailwind to Headwind
Following the 2009 EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED), Norway has overachieved its national renewables target and taken the European lead in new wind power. This seems puzzling as Norway had a surplus of renewable energy and the government opposed the EU-induced national target. Employing a dynamic approach to implementation and its consequences, we examine three explanations. From an EU adaptation-pressure perspective, the RED enabled joint imp…
Oil and power industries’ responses to EU emissions trading: Laggards or Low-Carbon Leaders
How have petroleum and power companies and their European industry associations responded to the EU emissions trading system (ETS)? Responses can be political, directed externally towards the initiation and reforms of the EU ETS itself, or internally and market-based, directed at low-carbon solutions. Proactive response strategies shape companies’ leadership potential. Variation in responses is explained by two models that differ in assumptions a…
The Paris Agreement: Consequences for the EU and Carbon Markets
Most observers argue that this agreement is a step in the right direction. However, we do not know how effective it will be in terms of reducing emissions. We therefore discuss its potential effectiveness regarding EU climate policies and carbon markets. We argue that the Paris Agreement may have a positive effect but uncertainties abound
Why negotiate a legally binding mercury convention
Governance by EU emissions trading: Resistance or innovation in the oil industry
Managing North Sea Pollution Effectively: Linking International and Domestic Institutions
Shell Houston, we have a climate problem
The ‘successful’ ozone-layer negotiations
The ‘successful’ ozone-layer negotiations
The Fruitfulness of Various Models in the Study of International Environmental Politics
The unitary rational actor (URA) model enjoys a strong position in the study of international politics. I argue that it is far from obvious that the URA model is the most fruitful point of departure in the study of international environmental politics compared to more complex models of bureaucratic politics and the role of interest groups. The argument is based on a brief description of international environmental problems and politics and variou…
Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence
This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines that environmental regimes actually do better than the …
Climate Change and the Oil Industry: Common Problems, Different Strategies
The primary focus of most academic climate policy studies has been the robustness of climate science and the development of international negotiations and institutions, in which states, and sometimes societies, have been pinpointed as the key players. Systematic comparative studies of multinational and even global non-governmental actors have been in short supply. This research lacuna is particularly glaring since the position of a major non-stat…
Shell Houston, we have a climate problem
Understanding the Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy: How Can Regime Analysis Contribute
The study of EU environmental policy consequences tends to focus on how EU legislation output is formally implemented in the Member States and its impact in terms of the state of the European environment. The crucial outcome dimension linking output to impact has, however, received scant attention. Outcome points to changes in the behaviour of relevant target groups causing the problems in the first place. Accordingly, we know little about the ca…
Managing North Sea Pollution Effectively: Linking International and Domestic Institutions
Soft Law, Hard Law, and Effective Implementation of International Environmental Norms
The article compares the interplay between soft law institutions and those based on hard law in international efforts to protect the North Sea, reduce transboundary air pollution, and discipline fisheries subsidies. Our cases confirm that ambitious norms are more easily achieved in soft law institutions than in legally binding ones, but not primarily because they bypass domestic ratification or fail to raise concerns for compliance costs. More im…
Is EU enlargement bad for environmental policy? Confronting gloomy expectations with evidence
Implementing EU emissions trading: Success or failure
Exploring the consequences of soft law and hard law: Implementing international nutrient commitments in Norwegian agriculture
The Origin, Evolution and Consequences of the EU Emissions Trading System
The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the cornerstone of EU climate policy, a grand policy experiment, as the first and largest international emissions trading system in the world. In this article, we seek to provide a broad overview of the initiation, decision-making and implementation of the EU ETS so far. We explore why the EU changed from a laggard to a leader in emissions trading, how it managed to establish the system rapidly, and the…
Fixing the EU Emissions Trading System? Understanding the Post-2012 Changes
This article explains why the significant changes in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the 2013–2020 phase were adopted in 2008. The combination of a more stringent EU-wide cap, allocation of emission allowances for payment, and limits on imports of credits from third countries have strengthened the system for the post-2012 period. This will promote reduction in greenhouse gases compared to the old system. The main reasons for these ch…
Making the EU Emissions Trading System: The European Commission as an entrepreneurial epistemic leader
Why negotiate a legally binding mercury convention
Governance by EU emissions trading: Resistance or innovation in the oil industry
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…
Linking EU climate and energy policies: Policy-making, implementation and reform
The Paris Agreement: Consequences for the EU and Carbon Markets
Most observers argue that this agreement is a step in the right direction. However, we do not know how effective it will be in terms of reducing emissions. We therefore discuss its potential effectiveness regarding EU climate policies and carbon markets. We argue that the Paris Agreement may have a positive effect but uncertainties abound
The European Commission’s Shifting Climate Leadership
The European Commission has played a crucial role in promoting ambitious EU climate targets and policies that boost the credibility of EU leadership-by-example efforts internationally. The approach has gradually shifted from leadership toward more strategic behavior that reflects the preferences of the member states. Reduced uncertainty concerning member-state preferences and solutions accounts for much of the change in leadership. Uncertainty ha…
International Regimes and Norway's Environmental Policy: Crossfire and Coherence
Regulating the invisible: Interaction between the EU and Norway in managing nano-risks
Implementing EU climate and energy policies in Poland: Policy Feedback and Reform
European Union (EU) climate/energy targets and policies are poised for the first full climate policy cycle – from adoption and implementation of the policy package for 2020, to reform for 2030. A dynamic approach to the ways in which EU policies affect policy development is developed by applying theories of domestic implementation, policy feedback and integration. Implementation experiences in Poland – the ‘least climate ambitious’ EU member stat…
Knowledge-based management of protected areas and hydropower: The case of Norway
Oil and power industries’ responses to EU emissions trading: Laggards or Low-Carbon Leaders
How have petroleum and power companies and their European industry associations responded to the EU emissions trading system (ETS)? Responses can be political, directed externally towards the initiation and reforms of the EU ETS itself, or internally and market-based, directed at low-carbon solutions. Proactive response strategies shape companies’ leadership potential. Variation in responses is explained by two models that differ in assumptions a…
Political science (30 works) · Economics (24 works) · Business (23 works) · International trade (16 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (14 works) · European union (13 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (13 works) · Climate change (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Geography (10 works)