Vision
Contribute towards the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions on a 5 – 15 year horizon.
Ethical base
Equal climate footprint for all humans in the long run.
Centres, groups and other initiatives
Centre for Green Growth
The Center for Green Growth works on climate issues in a holisitic, multidisiplinary and long term perspective. The focus is on what can be done to reduce climate gas emissions at the global, national, corporate and individual level.
Per Espen Stoknes
Associate Professor Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour +4791595161 per.e.stoknes@bi.noContact
BI Norwegian Business School
Nydalsveien 37
N-0484 Oslo
Switchboard: +47 46 41 00 00
Mission
- Develop suggestions for good climate strategy -- at the global, national, corporate and individual level
- Forecast the cost and effect of these strategies
- Identify and highlight barriers to attitude change and implementation
- Communicate the results to implementors and the public
Capability
- Maintain knowledge about the costs and consequences of most important climate actions, both past and future.
- Understand the future environment - both physical and social -- in which climate strategies will have to be implemented.
- Provide surveys of the impact of past climate policy.
Methodological foundation
- Cross disciplinary - breadth prioritized over depth.
- Microeconomic analysis, behavioral economics, life cycle analysis, input output analysis, system dynamics, foresight and scenario techniques.
Outputs
- Proposed climate strategies (for different actors, suited to their objectives)
- Suggested implementation strategies (in light of implementation barriers)
- Identification of industrial opportunities
- Scenarios for the economic, regulatory and climatic environment in which future climate strategies will have to be implemented
- Summaries and analyses of past developments of climate policy