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The Norwegian green think tank Klimastiftelsen recently presented their report with recommendations for better green policy to the minister of research and higher education Sigrun G. Aasland. The report was written by the Climate Council 2025 (Klimar氓d 2025), which included Vigdis Vandvik (CeSAM) and Kikki Kleiven (Bjerknes center) from UiB.

In the spring of 2025, general elections will be held for the faculty board and the department councils at the Faculty of Science and Technology. All members of the department council, with the exception of the head of department who is a permanent member, are up for election, and candidates can be nominated for their respective groups until March 19. For Gr. A and C, the election period is 4... Read more

The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year鈥檚 competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.

The UNESCO Chair project BECOME, is one of the initiatives mentioned in the newly published UNESCO report 鈥淭he Earth Network: sharing tools for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in UNESCO-designated sites鈥�, where they present a toolkit of practices that support both the 2030 Agenda and UNESCO-designated sites.

The CULTIVATE project recently had its first paper published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. In this paper, the authors present a novel transdisciplinary learning framework that links notions of cultural heritage, landscape, and social-ecological systems thinking to support sustainable rural development.

In December, the BIOSPHERE project group held a dialogue meeting about the Global Biodiversity Framework goals with stakeholders from the Nordhordland municipalities as the finally of the resilience assessment that has been taking place this autumn.

In this newly published op-ed, we argue that the Norwegian state must take more responsibility for protecting natural ecosystems by tightening regulations on land use in municipalities.

These days, Norway's plan following the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (the Norwegian Action Plan for Natural Diversity) is being discussed in the Norwegian Parliament. Our expectation of this plan was that it would not only describe the status of Norwegian nature, but also take this knowledge seriously by proposing necessary measures to slow down and reverse the loss of nature... Read more