The Effectiveness of the Regulatory Regime for Black Carbon Mitigation in the Arctic

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Climate change and oil and gas production regulation : an impossible reconciliation?

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Just Transition in the Arctic context : introduction

Acknowledgments I am immensely grateful to the contributing authors, anonymous reviewers across many fields of specialism, the Polar Journal editor Anne-Marie Brady and the editor Liz Buchanan, as well as the production team at Taylor and Francis. While all outstanding mistakes remain my own, this issue would not be possible without their immeasurable support and contribution. Funding This work was supported by the Scottish Government [ACF21-07].Peer reviewedPostprin

Arctic Petroleum and the 2°C Goal : A Case for Accountability for Fossil-Fuel Supply

Funding Information: There is growing support for supply-side measures in general. Over 500 environmental ngo s from 76 countries signed the 2017 Lofoten Declaration calling for ‘the wealthy fossil fuel producers to lead in putting an end to fossil fuel development and to manage the decline of existing production.’ This position is supported by some politicians and industry representatives. In the last two years of the Obama Administration, for example, much attention was focused on climate change. In discussing the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline project, the US president said: ‘if we’re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.’ A 2016 report by the French energy company Total stressed that ‘the 2°C scenario highlights that a part of the world’s fossil fuel resources cannot be developed.’ The World Bank is no longer financing oil-and-gas projects, on climate change grounds. For the Arctic context specifically, Sjåfjell and Halvorssen examined the climatic implications of new oil development in Norway, arguing that investing in oil-and-gas operations and carbon-intensive infrastructure over the next thirty years in the Arctic ‘is clearly against the object and purpose of the unfccc and the Paris Agreement, when the international community should be phasing out fossil fuel use and moving toward renewable energy across the globe.’ Publisher Copyright: © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2020. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

International Governance of Oil Spills from Upstream Petroleum Activities in the Arctic : Response over Prevention?

The paper is partly based on the author’s PhD thesis submitted to the University of Aberdeen in 2017. The author is grateful to her supervisors Professor Tina Hunter and Dr Catherine Ng, and her examiners Professor Elizabeth Kirk and Professor Timo Koivurova for their time and comments.Peer reviewedPostprin

No race for the Arctic? Examination of interconnections between legal regimes for offshore petroleum licensing and level of industry activity

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Russian Arctic Offshore Petroleum Governance : The effects of western sanctions and outlook for northern development

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Measuring Just Transition : Indicators and scenarios for a Just Transition in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire

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Just Transition for Workers and Communities in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire : Rapid Evidence Review

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