Elin Lerum Boasson
@elinlb.bsky.social
Political Science Professor. Climate governance, climate action, renewables, EU studies and policy entrepreneurs. I follow Norwegian, Swedish and EU climate policy+politics. University of Oslo. CICERO. IPCC AR6 and AR6.
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Turns out defending international law in a world of predators is impossible if you don't have sufficient force to defend yourself.
European weakness on full display by these horribly contorted responses from Merz, Macron and Starmer - neither condoning nor condemning US actions in Venezuela
Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Turns out defending international law in a world of predators is impossible if you don't have sufficient force to defend yourself.
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Turns out that there are emissions scenarios for all tastes and climate policy preferences - who can guess which bureaucrats love the @ipcc.bsky.social scenarios more?
New paper! How are emissions scenarios 📉 from the IPCC (and other sources) actually used by decision-makers? We asked them, and the results are out just in time for the holidays 🧑🎄🤶🧑🎄 (with @idasogn.bsky.social & @climansen.bsky.social)
Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice
www.nature.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Turns out that there are emissions scenarios for all tastes and climate policy preferences - who can guess which bureaucrats love the @ipcc.bsky.social scenarios more?
Turns out that there are emissions scenarios for all tastes and climate policy preferences - who can guess which bureaucrats love the @ipcc.bsky.social scenarios more?
New paper! How are emissions scenarios 📉 from the IPCC (and other sources) actually used by decision-makers? We asked them, and the results are out just in time for the holidays 🧑🎄🤶🧑🎄 (with @idasogn.bsky.social & @climansen.bsky.social)
Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice
www.nature.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Turns out that there are emissions scenarios for all tastes and climate policy preferences - who can guess which bureaucrats love the @ipcc.bsky.social scenarios more?
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Check out our handbook chapter on Norwegian climate and nature protection policies!
Why are objectives and targets so important for climate policy development, but not for nature protection? Why are public-private partnerships more important for nature protection than for climate policy? Find answers to these questions+more in this chapter on Norwegian environmental policy.
📢 New book chapter
👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV) & Lars H. Gulbrandsen
🔎 Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV) & Lars H. Gulbrandsen
🔎 Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
December 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Check out our handbook chapter on Norwegian climate and nature protection policies!
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It's fascinating how quickly every effort to "disrupt" the university sector collapses. Maybe the university – one of the oldest spontaneous orders anywhere, an institution much older than the corporation and the nation-state – has something going for it that outsiders don't appreciate?
I guess some knowledge IS forbidden! www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas' 'anti-Harvard' university is losing its founders
Who will teach the "Forbidden Courses" now?
www.chron.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's fascinating how quickly every effort to "disrupt" the university sector collapses. Maybe the university – one of the oldest spontaneous orders anywhere, an institution much older than the corporation and the nation-state – has something going for it that outsiders don't appreciate?
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"The Trump administration’s world view is that the United States doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say." — climate scientist Benjamin Santer in @thebulletin.org
Threatening NCAR, Trump administration seeks to extinguish a beacon of climate science
The Trump administration’s world view is that the US doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say.
thebulletin.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"The Trump administration’s world view is that the United States doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say." — climate scientist Benjamin Santer in @thebulletin.org
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Why are objectives and targets so important for climate policy development, but not for nature protection? Why are public-private partnerships more important for nature protection than for climate policy? Find answers to these questions+more in this chapter on Norwegian environmental policy.
📢 New book chapter
👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV) & Lars H. Gulbrandsen
🔎 Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV) & Lars H. Gulbrandsen
🔎 Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
AbstractThis chapter examines and compares nature protection and climate policies in Norway. Whereas nature protection policies are characterized by a limi
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Why are objectives and targets so important for climate policy development, but not for nature protection? Why are public-private partnerships more important for nature protection than for climate policy? Find answers to these questions+more in this chapter on Norwegian environmental policy.
Why are objectives and targets so important for climate policy development, but not for nature protection? Why are public-private partnerships more important for nature protection than for climate policy? Find answers to these questions+more in this chapter on Norwegian environmental policy.
📢 New book chapter
👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV) & Lars H. Gulbrandsen
🔎 Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
👥 Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social (ISV) & Lars H. Gulbrandsen
🔎 Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Paradoxes of Twin Crises: Nature Protection and Climate Governance in Norway
AbstractThis chapter examines and compares nature protection and climate policies in Norway. Whereas nature protection policies are characterized by a limi
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Why are objectives and targets so important for climate policy development, but not for nature protection? Why are public-private partnerships more important for nature protection than for climate policy? Find answers to these questions+more in this chapter on Norwegian environmental policy.
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We are hiring!
Interested in pursuing a career in climate governance, policy or politics research? Do you have a relevant PhD degree in political science, public administration or international relations? Then you should check out this opportunity!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
We are hiring!
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And remember to highlight in particular the *benefits* that a healthy EV market can have for the economy *at home* (the abroad scenario has less of an effect).
@patrickbayer.bsky.social and I have the evidence for that:
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
@patrickbayer.bsky.social and I have the evidence for that:
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
And remember to highlight in particular the *benefits* that a healthy EV market can have for the economy *at home* (the abroad scenario has less of an effect).
@patrickbayer.bsky.social and I have the evidence for that:
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
@patrickbayer.bsky.social and I have the evidence for that:
direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
We are hiring!
Interested in pursuing a career in climate governance, policy or politics research? Do you have a relevant PhD degree in political science, public administration or international relations? Then you should check out this opportunity!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
We are hiring!
Professors are incredibly boring photo objects. Turns out that an American sized coffee mug is what it takes to please a photographer. Not sure whether the readers of Khrono agrees.
www.khrono.no/dette-teller...
www.khrono.no/dette-teller...
Dette teller mest når du søker jobb: — Ikke antall artikler alene
Ny undersøkelse viser hva forskere tror blir mest vektlagt når de søker jobb og opprykk, og hva som faktisk blir vektlagt. Professor Elin Lerum Boasson opplever at mange søkere legger for lite vekt på...
www.khrono.no
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Professors are incredibly boring photo objects. Turns out that an American sized coffee mug is what it takes to please a photographer. Not sure whether the readers of Khrono agrees.
www.khrono.no/dette-teller...
www.khrono.no/dette-teller...
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Selvfølgelig er det ikke bare publikasjoner som teller. For å sitere sosiologiprofessor Ivar Frønes, fritt etter hukommelsen: Vi må slutte å ansette folk som vi vet er ubrukelige i den stillingen de ansettes i. www.khrono.no/dette-teller...
Dette teller mest når du søker jobb: — Ikke antall artikler alene
Ny undersøkelse viser hva forskere tror blir mest vektlagt når de søker jobb og opprykk, og hva som faktisk blir vektlagt. Professor Elin Lerum Boasson opplever at mange søkere legger for lite vekt på...
www.khrono.no
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Selvfølgelig er det ikke bare publikasjoner som teller. For å sitere sosiologiprofessor Ivar Frønes, fritt etter hukommelsen: Vi må slutte å ansette folk som vi vet er ubrukelige i den stillingen de ansettes i. www.khrono.no/dette-teller...
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Postdocs have many advantages in the Norwegian university system, e.g resources available to help qualify for permanent positions. A healty work-life balance is encurraged and Oslo is a fun+interesting city with loads of nature+culture. Looks nice or what?
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Postdocs have many advantages in the Norwegian university system, e.g resources available to help qualify for permanent positions. A healty work-life balance is encurraged and Oslo is a fun+interesting city with loads of nature+culture. Looks nice or what?
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Interested in pursuing a career in climate governance, policy or politics research? Do you have a relevant PhD degree in political science, public administration or international relations? Then you should check out this opportunity!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Interested in pursuing a career in climate governance, policy or politics research? Do you have a relevant PhD degree in political science, public administration or international relations? Then you should check out this opportunity!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Interested in pursuing a career in climate governance, policy or politics research? Do you have a relevant PhD degree in political science, public administration or international relations? Then you should check out this opportunity!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (291366), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 6, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Interested in pursuing a career in climate governance, policy or politics research? Do you have a relevant PhD degree in political science, public administration or international relations? Then you should check out this opportunity!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Dismantling of US climate science will lead to human suffering of major proportions. Wathing it play out is painful, but much more severe pain is going to follow.
The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen.
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
eu.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Dismantling of US climate science will lead to human suffering of major proportions. Wathing it play out is painful, but much more severe pain is going to follow.
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Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Feverishly working on this
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I am preparing my new-years resolutions, and I have an idea for the climate crowd:
Stop sloppy climate language! Restrict the use of the term «acceleration» to what should happen to emissions reductions, and stop using it for all things related to climate mitigation.
@glenpeters.bsky.social
Stop sloppy climate language! Restrict the use of the term «acceleration» to what should happen to emissions reductions, and stop using it for all things related to climate mitigation.
@glenpeters.bsky.social
On day 12 of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're highlighting an Essay by @elinlb.bsky.social, @glenpeters.bsky.social and Jale Tosun:
"Policy-driven acceleration of climate action"
🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
"Policy-driven acceleration of climate action"
🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I am preparing my new-years resolutions, and I have an idea for the climate crowd:
Stop sloppy climate language! Restrict the use of the term «acceleration» to what should happen to emissions reductions, and stop using it for all things related to climate mitigation.
@glenpeters.bsky.social
Stop sloppy climate language! Restrict the use of the term «acceleration» to what should happen to emissions reductions, and stop using it for all things related to climate mitigation.
@glenpeters.bsky.social
I am preparing my new-years resolutions, and I have an idea for the climate crowd:
Stop sloppy climate language! Restrict the use of the term «acceleration» to what should happen to emissions reductions, and stop using it for all things related to climate mitigation.
@glenpeters.bsky.social
Stop sloppy climate language! Restrict the use of the term «acceleration» to what should happen to emissions reductions, and stop using it for all things related to climate mitigation.
@glenpeters.bsky.social
On day 12 of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're highlighting an Essay by @elinlb.bsky.social, @glenpeters.bsky.social and Jale Tosun:
"Policy-driven acceleration of climate action"
🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
"Policy-driven acceleration of climate action"
🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I am preparing my new-years resolutions, and I have an idea for the climate crowd:
Stop sloppy climate language! Restrict the use of the term «acceleration» to what should happen to emissions reductions, and stop using it for all things related to climate mitigation.
@glenpeters.bsky.social
Stop sloppy climate language! Restrict the use of the term «acceleration» to what should happen to emissions reductions, and stop using it for all things related to climate mitigation.
@glenpeters.bsky.social
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On day 12 of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're highlighting an Essay by @elinlb.bsky.social, @glenpeters.bsky.social and Jale Tosun:
"Policy-driven acceleration of climate action"
🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
"Policy-driven acceleration of climate action"
🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
On day 12 of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're highlighting an Essay by @elinlb.bsky.social, @glenpeters.bsky.social and Jale Tosun:
"Policy-driven acceleration of climate action"
🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
"Policy-driven acceleration of climate action"
🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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I am settled on the 32st floor with a view of Paris (and EDF) and well prepared for one week of climate science discussions, kicking of the 7th assessment cycle of the @IPCC A nice run in the sunset gave me a head start!
November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I am settled on the 32st floor with a view of Paris (and EDF) and well prepared for one week of climate science discussions, kicking of the 7th assessment cycle of the @IPCC A nice run in the sunset gave me a head start!