Postdoctor position on climate ambition and fairness

Arbeidsplassen; Bergen; On-site; NOK 550,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Bergen's Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) invites applications for a postdoctoral research fellow position for a period of three years. The successful candidate will contribute to Paris Ambition project and help develop tools to assess climate pledge fairness and ambition.

The work spans conceptual and analytical development, international climate negotiations, national policy, and corporate target setting, with workplace at CET and collaboration across

Responsibilities

• Contribute to developing actionable fairness and ambition assessment tools for decision-makers.
• Develop new conceptual and analytical frameworks to inform international climate negotiations and national policy.
• Support climate target setting for governments, civil society, courts, and investors.

Job description

Postdoctor position on climate ambition and fairness

University of Bergen

postboks 7802, 5020 Bergen

Stillingstittel Postdoktor ved Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET)

UiB shall be among Europe's leading universities, internationally recognized for high quality in research and education. As a societal institution, we shall contribute to sustainable and democratic development and be an attractive and inclusive place to study and work.

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The Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), University of Bergen (UiB), is recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow for a period of three years.

About the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET)
CET is an interdisciplinary research centre that aims at producing actionable knowledge about how to
achieve deep, rapid and sustainable transformation of society to meet the climate challenge. CET is
based at the UiB Faculty of Social Sciences and works closely with scientists from a variety of disciplines.
CET conducts research on how climate change and transformation are experienced and acted upon by
individuals, communities, policymakers and organizations. More information about CET's research focus
can be found on the website: https://www.uib.no/en/cet .
The postdoctoral research fellow will have their workplace at CET and is expected to contribute to making
CET a dynamic and productive academic environment.

About the project/work tasks:

The Paris Agreement requires countries, cities and companies to continuously increase the ambition of their climate commitments. Yet there is no widely accepted way to assess whether a climate pledge is both fair and sufficiently ambitious. This postdoctoral research fellow will contribute to Paris Ambitionproject , funded by the Research Council of Norway, which aims at developing actionable fairness and ambition assessment tools to support decision-makers in implementing global climate goals. This project seeks to develop new conceptual and analytical frameworks to inform international climate negotiations, national climate policy, climate litigation and corporate climate target setting.
Assessing climate ambition remains a major methodological challenge in climate governance with methodologies applied to different types of actors based on incompatible assumptions.The project considers both the norms that shape climate commitments and the norms used to evaluate their fairness and ambition by governments, civil society, courts and investors.The project draws on the fair share literature –