Taran Fæhn

My working fields include climate policies, innovation and growth, industrial policy, and interlinkages between trade, growth and the environment. I have an applied policy approach and extensively use computable general equilibrium (CGE) models in my work. Many of my projects address impacts of technology policies on greenhouse gas emissions, welfare and growth and their interplay with climate and energy policies. We make use of dynamic CGE models with induced technological change in these analyses. On the national arena, I have been involved in various initiatives and projects on Norwegian climate policies, amongst them as a member of the governmental working group Climate Cure 2020 set to analyse paths to achieve national climate targets. My climate and technology research is partly performed within the Oslo Centre for Environmentally friendly Energy (CREE), an Oslo-based consortium financed by the Research Council of Norway. As part of CREE I am also engaged as a Working Package Leader in the EU-financed project ENTRACTE, aimed at studying the interplay among European energy and climate instruments.