PhD position at SINTEF - sustainability transitions (social science) - CCS in waste-to-energy - fully funded 3 years starting Jan 2026 www.finn.no/428930743

PhD position in Sustainability Transitions – Carbon capture and storage | FINN.no

We are searching for a talented social science candidate to join our Innovation and Sustainability research group as a PhD candidate. The group is a part of

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Yesterday I delivered my first desk decision report to the Associate Editors of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. It is a great honour to take over the role as Editor-in-Chief from Bernhard Truffer who has done a tremendous job in developing the journal.

Cost estimate for UK's next nuclear power plant to be increased by 90%, already before start of its main construction phase. Now to €44 billion, that's €13,700 per kW, hardly lower than Hinkley Point C.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · last yr.

when the FT revealed in January that the cost of building the Sizewell C nuclear plant had risen to around £40bn they all denied it now we can reveal the actual price tag - to be announced this week - and it is £38bn www.ft.com/content/d431...

New paper out on #CCS in waste incineration. With expected large increases in waste incineration for the coming decades, we urgently need to address emissions from #waste-to-energy plants. 🏭 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very pleased to announce we are running our PhD course Innovation and Sustainability Transitions May 12-16th again here at HVL in Bergen. Application deadline 31th of March. norsi.no/course/susta...

Sustainability Transitions and Innovation - NORSI

Fundamental transitions within societal sectors such as energy, transport, water and food are required to cope with sustainability challenges that are

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Dutch government will found a state energy company to build and operate the nuclear power plants it's aiming for. The Minister: "Market parties are not willing to build and operate a nuclear power plant at own risk. Even with far-reaching state support they do not want to carry this responsibility."

Jasper Vis@jaspervis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Het Kabinet gaat een staatsbedrijf oprichten voor de bouw en exploitatie van kerncentrales. Want ‘Marktpartijen zijn niet bereid om een kerncentrale volledig voor eigen risico te bouwen en te exploiteren.’ www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken...

Over hele verden har regjeringer etablert klimaråd. Disse gir mer systematisk+forskningsbasert klimastyring. I Danmark skaper de også ekstra rom for at sivilsamfunnet kan bidra i klimadebatt. Når regjeringen lager klimamål for 2035 kan de etablere norskt råd #polkvart . www.climatecouncils.org

🚨 📣 🚨 Job claxon🚨 📣 🚨 We are hiring TWO (senior) researchers for transformative innovation and innovation policy! We are looking for two researchers, one research assistant, and one project manager (25-40 hours/week) to join our team. www.zsi.at/de/object/ne...

...and here comes the real announcement: up to 4 POSTDOCS with an interest in transitioning the agri-food and land use system! Short deadline - February 5th - so apply fast. Link: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

2 to 4 Postdocs in Sustainability Transitions, Public Policy, and Modelling in the European Agri-food and Land Use System

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Teis Hansen@teis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pre-announcement of up to 4 postdocs on agrifood and land use transitions. We will soon open for postdoc applications at UCPH for an upcoming project. Keywords: policies, technologies, scenarios for European agrifood and land use transitions. Short deadline, so feel free to reach out already now.

Three-year postdoc vacancy in the Innovation Studies group at Utrecht University, to investigate the effects of regulation on innovation and adoption; apply before 5 February. Please re-post www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Postdoc Position in Quantitative Innovation Studies

Are you interested in sustainable innovation, adoption trajectories and the impact of policy in agri-food and land-use systems? Work with us as a postdoc!

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Pre-announcement of up to 4 postdocs on agrifood and land use transitions. We will soon open for postdoc applications at UCPH for an upcoming project. Keywords: policies, technologies, scenarios for European agrifood and land use transitions. Short deadline, so feel free to reach out already now.

Two floating wind farms awarded contracts by the French Governments at surprisingly low prices - as low as recently awarded UK fixed offshore windfarms www.powerengineeringint.com/renewables/w...

France awards two floating offshore wind farms in Mediterranean

The French Ministry of Industry and Energy has announced the award of two 250MW floating offshore wind farms in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Kronikk om norsk klimapolitikk og dens negative konsekvenser for utslipp, innovasjon og omstilling. M/ @hakonen.bsky.social @teis.bsky.social tuukka mäkitie og jens hanson

Tafatt norsk klimapolitikk hindrer grønn næringsomstilling

Regjeringens forslag til statsbudsjett for 2025 satser på biodrivstoff og utslippskutt i utlandet. Det er uheldig ikke bare for norske utslippsmål, men også for innovasjon og grønn næringsomstilling, ...

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Crazy thought: maybe Europe could even learn from China's policy approach that drove this development? Especially re the adaptability of policies...

Jonas Nahm@jonasnahm.com · 2y ago

Northvolt's Ch11 filing is a wake-up call for European industrial policy. The continent's leading battery champion is restructuring while Chinese firms dominate the global market. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/b...

What are the core challenges for decarbonising energy-intensive industries? New paper out w @markussteen.bsky.social, Hans Hellsmark, Jens Hanson, & Elizaveta Johansson, using q-method to analyse similarities and differences within and across Norway and Sweden www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Perceptions of decarbonisation challenges for the process industry in Sweden and Norway

The energy-intensive process industries (EPIs) account for a high share of global carbon emissions but have so far been slow to decarbonise. One of th…

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Re-starting my activity over here! Good occasion to share this paper published last month: "Scalar orientation of policies and technology legitimacy: The case of decarbonization in Norway" @hakonen.bsky.social @markussteen.bsky.social Jens Hanson Tuukka Mäkitie www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scalar orientation of policies and technology legitimacy: The case of decarbonization in Norway

This paper suggest that we need to better understand the relationship between policy rationales and their scalar orientation. The former refers to the…

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Reminder that the PhD call closes in 9 days! We are looking for PhD students interested in policy for sustainability transitions to join our research group in Copenhagen

Teis Hansen@teis.bsky.social · 3y ago

Our department currently has its annual open call for PhD positions. As always, we welcome applications with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability transitions. Deadline April 21st candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Our department currently has its annual open call for PhD positions. As always, we welcome applications with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability transitions. Deadline April 21st candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

officials predicted with “high certainty” that technology such as electric arc furnaces would lead to successful decarb of UK steel production by 2035 The Cumbria coal mine was clearly pointless Govt by virtue-signalling. Or should that be vice-signallling? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government documents ‘blow gaping hole’ in its case for Cumbrian coalmine

Michael Gove said UK needed coal to make steel, but business department papers drafted around same time say it will not

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I still don't think people realise how quickly renewable energy is expanding around the world 🇪🇺New renewables built over the past 5yrs were enough to power the entire EU 🇺🇸🇨🇦New renewables expected in the next 5yrs wld be enough to power the US & Canada www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wor...

Sharing on behalf of my colleague Allan Dahl Andersen, who is looking for a PhD (shorturl.at/jswYZ) and Postdoc (shorturl.at/djvzC) in the area of Innovation and Sustainability Transitions. Pls share and apply 🙂

The world has made real progress in bending down the curve of future emissions. While we remain far from on track to meet our climate goals, the positive steps we’ve made should reinforce that progress is possible and despair is counterproductive. carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

This is the best front page I've seen for long... and it doesn't conceal the content inside!

With @teis.bsky.social and Daniel Schiller, we have a CfP for a SI on "Exploring the Geography of Innovation and Sustainability Transitions in the Bioeconomy" in Progress in Economic Geography. Please contact us if interested 🌳 Deadline: March 31st 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/prog...

📢NEW JOB ALERT Come and join us in Geography & Environment at Loughborough University ** Lecturer in Human Geography ** 💷£45,585 to £54,395 - permanent position ⏰Deadline to apply 30 October jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD737/l... Applications welcome from any relevant specialism linking to our research

@annabutzin.bsky.social opening the hybrid workshop on Transformative knowledge regions part of TRAKR network made possible by @regstud.bsky.social in Gelsenkirchen

Bård and Stuart dressed in matching colours to the industrial plant! 🤩

Markus Steen@markussteen.bsky.social · 3y ago

Two excellent days of old-school fieldwork in Mo i rana🇧🇻 on CCUS and process industry decarbonization w/ Bård from NTNU and Stuart from Newcastle Uni. Fascinating complexity and opportunity! Part of our #CaptureX project

First post (or what is a tweet called here?) under the blue sky: excellent new paper by Høgni and Rikard in Progress on the role of the public sector in regional development journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....