Pollution and climate

The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) leads to higher electricity prices and thus higher costs for electricity-intensive industries in the EU, reducing their competitiveness compared to those in non-EU countries.

Norway has positioned itself as a climate policy forerunner by aiming to reach net-zero emissions already by 2030. However, the net-zero ambition is not well-defined, not legally binding, nor substantiated by action plans.

We examine the industrial effects of two measures aimed at mitigating carbon leakage: the EU’s scheduled Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and the allocation of free emission allowances.

Countries with ambitious climate targets are concerned about carbon leakage to countries with more lenient or no carbon pricing.

This article explores whether altruistic preferences toward households in poor high-temperature countries stimulate global warming policies within rich low-temperature countries that avoids damage from global warming.

Unmanaged and overgrown coastal heathlands represent a substantial fire hazard. We analyse how this hazard in Norwegian coastal heathlands is influenced by weather conditions, land management, and usage.

Statistics Norway carried out an electronic sample survey concerning pesticide use in 2022. Similar surveys were carried out in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2017

Unilateral CO₂ emission reduction can lead to carbon leakage, such as relocation of power-intensive and trade-exposed industries.

Weather and temperatures vary in ways that are difficult to explain and predict precisely. In this article we review data on temperature variations in the past as well possible reasons for these variations.

This paper examines the investment incentives of market-based regulation, with focus on the technology characteristics the different regulatory schemes tend to incentivize.