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Energy and environmental economics
Research in this area explores efficient design of climate and energy policy, electricity, oil and gas markets, and indicators of sustainable growth with a view to generating new knowledge on the management of energy and environmental resources. Climate policy studies address, i.a., the interplay of policy making, technological progress, international climate negotiations and permit markets. Energy market research studies the demand for electric power, oil and gas over time. Sustainable growth requires improved indicators and studies of the resources and environment of the Arctic.
Research fields in Energy and environmental economics

Climate policy and economics

Research in this field includes studies of climate policy and alternative formulations of international treaties and national policies. Instruments studied include taxes on emissions, emissions trading schemes, green and white certificates, investments under the green development mechanism CDM, technology development incentives and strategies to increase the support to international climate treaties.

Energy and environmental policy

Research in this area addresses aspects related to supply, demand, efficiency and distribution in the markets for power, oil and gas. Key research themes include household energy demand, power market response to demand, and impact of changing climate and energy policy.

Household energy use

Research here seeks to describe how issues such as the cost of power, income, housing and household characteristics, energy consuming appliances affect household energy consumption. Studies aim to shed light on energy consumption growth; forecast energy use based on current policy, and evaluate the impact of various policy measures.

Oil and gas markets

Research in this area addresses the need for deeper insight into how the oil and gas markets are affected by the regulatory environment and leading market players. Issues of concern here include exercise of market power, dynamic optimisation of non-renewable resources, and the impact of climate policy. Theoretical analyses and large-scale simulation models are used in this research field.

Power markets

Research here includes analytical studies of power markets at Norwegian, Nordic, European and global levels. Themes of interest are, i.a., the impact of taxes, subsidies, green certificates and market power. Work is also done on carbon capture and storage (CCS). Large-scale simulation models are important tools in this field of study.

Sustainable development

Research seeks to refine sustainable development indicators at Statistics Norway. Their aim is to give early warning of impending hazards and urgency of action. A new project studies how to introduce precautionary principles to sustainable development analyses of uncertain but potentially threatening environmental hazards.

Technology, innovation and growth

Technological development is a prerequisite for the realization of key environmental and energy policy objectives, combined with continued economic growth. Research in this field analyses the forces that influence technological development and economic growth, and how policy instruments can be designed to affect innovation and diffusion of new technologies, for general as well as environmental and energy technologies.

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