Heidi Katrine Bang

Better knowledge of black carbon and climate change can save lives

Published 16.12.2025

A CICERO-led research project is expected to improve climate mitigation and adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The key is to understand the role of black carbon in extreme precipitation changes.

Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in Europe can be reduced by 40 percent – without compromising food security

Published 24.11.2025

European farmers can reduce agriculture climate emissions by 40 percent while also reducing pressure on biodiversity and maintaining current levels of food production, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.

Climate effect of nitrogen emissions is uncertain

Published 22.10.2025

The climate effect of nitrogen emissions is uncertain, according to a new study led by CICERO and published in Nature. Increased knowledge is crucial before introducing new zero carbon-fuel technologies on a large scale.

Carbon emissions globally | International climate policy

Uneven representation of scenarios in IPCC report can lead to biased recommendations

Published 2.10.2025

Governments and organizations set climate targets motivated by findings in IPCC reports. A new study by CICERO finds that an uneven representation of models and studies in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report can lead to biased statistics and policy impacts.

Emission scenarios | IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

Air pollution cuts in East Asia likely accelerated global warming

Published 14.7.2025

Global warming has accelerated since 2010. A new CICERO-led study shows that unmasking of greenhouse-gas-driven warming due to a substantial cleanup in air pollution over East Asia can explain it.

Air pollution | Temperature changes

Forest fires out of control near the Arctic

Published 24.6.2025

With global warming, the high northern latitudes have seen many record-breaking fires in boreal forests in recent years. A new research project, launched this week, with leading experts from Europe and the US will investigate how fires near the Arctic affect the future climate.

Extreme weather to strengthen rapidly over next two decades

Published 11.9.2024

70 percent of the global population can expect strong and rapid changes in extreme temperatures and rainfall in the next 20 years unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut dramatically, according to a new study.

Leading experts to investigate climate impacts of a hydrogen economy in new research project

Published 4.9.2024

Pulling together experts on hydrogen from 12 institutions throughout Europe, HYway, a new research project funded by the European Union sets out to provide an understanding of the climate and environmental risks and co-benefits of a hydrogen economy – and to advise on options for addressing those risks.

Hydrogen | Atmospheric particles | Climate Models

2023 record heat came from global warming and weather variations

Published 30.8.2024

Natural variations in the oceans in combination with rapid global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions were behind Earth’s record heat in 2023, according to a new study.

Risk of more fire weather in the North

Published 8.9.2023

There is an increasing risk of large wildfires in high latitude regions, Scandinavia included, concludes a newly published study by researchers from CICERO Center for International Climate Research and the University of Oslo.

Extreme weather | Arctic | Forests