Esmeralda Colombo: Climate Risk
Esmeralda Colombo has received two rounds of CET Accelerator funding. Both grants allowed her to expand听her network as a young researcher and communicate her research.
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Esmeralda Colombo was a PhD candidate when she received her first funding through the CET Accelerator scheme in Spring 2019. The project entitled Climate Risk and Sustainable Performance allowed her to explore various activities and thus develop a strong network as a young researcher.听
The funding resulted in the conference 芦Investing in our future, divesting from our past: From Climate risk to climate opportunity鈥�, an article and a Research Council of Norway project application.听
The听Accelerator听Seed Funding that CET generously听entrusted me with听in February 2019 allowed me to achieve what, at first glance, had seemed impossible for听a junior female听researcher:听start an international network and organize a conference听on Climate Risk and Sustainable Performance, and take the momentum forward for a research project application to the Research Council of Norway. I am incredibly thankful for this opportunity!
Colombo applied for a new round in autumn 2020 鈥渋deas and communication鈥� call for the project Climate Risk and Democratic Energy Policies. The project aimed to communicate to the larger public on the role of science for depolarizing and democratizing energy policies.
The project resulted in a special three-part podcast called ClimatenergyTalk! The series was made in collaboration with Klimafestivalen 搂112 and published on CET Climate chat podcast page.
ClimatenergyTalk!
The years 2020 and 2021 have shown how the role of scientists is all the more important. During Klimafestivalen 搂112 Bergen 2021, the Center on Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen (CET) launched a听series of three podcasts on听Climate Risk and Democratic听Energy听Policies:听Climatenergy Talk!听The听podcast series aims to communicate to the larger public on the role of science - the social and natural sciences - for depolarizing and democratizing听energy听policies.听The series is听endorsed by the听Norwegian Climate Foundation听and听Juridika Innsikt. Creator and host is Esmaralda Colombo, Producer is Mainstream AS.
Episode 1;听Epistemic Communities: The Role of Scientists for Deep Decarbonization.
The first episode is on听Epistemic Communities: The Role of Scientists for Deep Decarbonization, hosting philosopher Associate Professor Kjetil Rommetveit. Kjetil takes us onto a journey to discover听how social and natural scientists are working together across sectors to support policy making鈥攐ften to better up national and global climate politics, and offer new perspectives, or imaginations, on reality.听To this听point, he is the editor of the book 'Post-truth Imaginations' forthcoming for Routledge in 2021.
Episode 2:听The Climate听Casino: Drilling Down on the Norwegian Climate Change Case
The second episode focuses on the economic analyses for expanding the petroleum industry in the Norwegian Arctic, which constituted one of the objects of controversy in the one and only lawsuit ever filed in climate change matters in Norway,听People v Arctic Oil. The government's economic analyses on the expansion of the听petroleum industry听became controversial as independent experts showed that drilling in the Arctic can be socially unprofitable for the Norwegian society.听The name of this second episode听is听The Climate听Casino: Drilling Down on the Norwegian Climate Change Case, hosting the two expert witnesses in the case, Prof. Mads Greaker and Prof. Knut Einar Rosendhal, who collaborated with lawyers and wrote a landmark report.
Episode 3:听The Green Tumbling: Can Sustainable Finance Combat Climate Change?
The third episode,听The Green Tumbling: Can Sustainable Finance Combat Climate Change?,听delves into sustainable finance with听Lisa Sachs, the Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment in New York City. So-called "sustainable investment" funds grew in both number and value over 2020, as the real economy shuddered from the effects of COVID-19. At the same time, a growing number of companies, investors and banks are making net-zero commitments, while financing for fossil fuel infrastructure continues to grow. Lisa will help us understand these trends, how to decipher meaningful commitments and action from greenwashing, and what steps are needed to align the financial sector with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.听
About climate risk
Project 1
- Title: Climate risk and sustainable performance
- Funding type: seed funding
- Grant: 120 300
- Project period: Feb 2019 - April 2020
Project 2
- Title:听Climate Risk and Democratic Energy Policies
- Funding type: Ideas and communication
- Grant: 25 000
- project period: Dec 2020 - June 2021
CET Accelerator funding
听is a mechanism to stimulate activity within the overall scope of the CET.
Open for听.听
Three types of funding are available:
- Ideas and communication up to NOK 100.000
- Seed Funding up to NOK 200.000
- Co-funding up to NOK 1million.
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