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A contract‐law analyses of the SMTA of the Plant Treaty : can it work as a binding contract?

Tvedt, Morten Walløe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

The Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA) of the Plant Treaty is the primary legal tool for making monetary benefit sharing work. International public law, including the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources ...

A formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts

Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Head, Martin J; Poirier, Clement; Summerhayes, Colin; Leinfelder, Reinhold; Grinevald, Jacques; Steffen, Will; Syvitski, James P.; Haff, Peter K.; McNeill, John R.; Wagreich, Michael; Fairchild, Ian J.; Richter, Daniel DeB.; Vidas, Davor; Williams, Mark; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Cearreta, Alejandro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

We analyse the ‘three flaws’ to potentially defining a formal Anthropocene geological time unit as advanced by Ruddiman (2018). (1) We recognize a long record of pre-industrial human impacts, but note that these increased ...

A Global Turn to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading? Experimentts, Actors and Diffusion

Biedenkopf, Katja; Mueller, Patrick; Sloiminski, Peter; Wettestad, Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)

A new Russian policy for the Northern sea route? State interests, key stakeholders and economic opportunities in changing times

Moe, Arild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

The 2013 NSR regime was explicitly aimed at attracting international users and transit shipping, but recent Russian policies point in a different direction. Expectations of a rapid increase in transit shipping have faded, ...

A tiered approach to the marine genetic resource governance framework under the proposed UNCLOS agreement for biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ)

Humphries, Fran; Tvedt, Morten Walløe; Gottlieb, Hiroko Muraki; Laird, Sarah; Wynberg, Rachel; Lawson, Charles; Rourke, Michelle; Oliva, Maria Julia; Jaspars, Marcel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

Developing a governance framework for Marine Genetic Resources (MGRs) is a crucial element of the proposed treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). ...

Access and Benefit Sharing legislation for marine bioprospecting: Lessons from Australia for the role of Marbank in Norway

Rosendal, Guri Kristin; Myhr, Anne Ingeborg; Tvedt, Morten Walløe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)

Access to Plant Genetic Resources - Legal Questions for Material on its Way into the Multilateral System of the Plant Treaty

Tvedt, Morten Walløe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)

Achieving the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement: the role of key actors

Andresen, Steinar E; Bang, Guri; Skjærseth, Jon Birger; Underdal, Arild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

Advanced metering policy development and influence structures: The case of Norway

Inderberg, Tor Håkon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)

Advocacy coalitions in the acceleration phase of the European energy transition

Lindberg, Marie Byskov; Kammermann, Lorenz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

An ocean apart? Maritime boundary agreements and disputes in the Arctic Ocean

Østhagen, Andreas; Schofield, Clive H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

The Arctic region is sometimes described as an area of geopolitical competition and boundary disputes. However, in terms of territorial and maritime claims, such portrayals are misleading. Our examination of maritime ...

Anchoring Policies, Alignment Tensions: Reconciling New Zealand’s Climate Change Act and Emissions Trading Scheme

Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Bailey, Ian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

Climate Change Acts (CCAs) seek to anchor national climate policy by establishing long‐term targets and lines of accountability that guide the development of other climate policy instruments. However, counter‐pressures to ...

Antarctic krill Euphausia superba: spatial distribution, abundance, and management of fisheries in a changing climate

McBride, Margaret; Stokke, Olav Schram; Renner, Angelika; Krafft, Bjørn Arne; Bergstad, Odd Aksel; Biuw, Martin; Lowther, Andrew; Stiansen, Jan Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

Antarctic krill Euphausia superba, a keystone species in the Southern Ocean, is highly relevant for studying effects of climate-related shifts on management systems. Krill provides a key link between primary producers and ...

Arctic Geopolitics, Climate Change, and Resilient Fisheries Management

Stokke, Olav Schram (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)

This article examines the resilience of fisheries management institutions to the combined challenges inherent in geopolitical and climatic change. Increased emphasis on geopolitical considerations tends to make governments ...

Arctic Ocean governance in light of an of an international legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction

Prip, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

A global process is underway towards an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) under the Law of Sea Convention (LOSC) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national ...