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The Winding Road to 1.5 Degrees

Published 3.10.2025

To limit global warming to around 1.5 degrees, we must remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. Exactly how much can be removed is uncertain. The only thing that seems sure is that it will be a massive cleanup job. Nevertheless, many countries have this as a strategy to reach their climate goals.

Temperature changes | Land use | Carbon emissions globally | Forests | Emission scenarios

Separating land carbon uptake from net-zero emissions

Published 19.11.2024

How are net zero emissions defined? It matters. It is the difference between either halting or continuing global warming, writes senior researcher Glen Peters in this blog about a new study published in Nature.

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

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Projects

NorSink - Norway’s carbon sink under climate change

How is carbon dioxide uptake changing in Norway and how may it be affected by climate change? NorSink will provide the most comprehensive assessment of Norway’s carbon budget to date, to understand drivers of recent change and model the potential future impact of climate change.

Carbon budget | Forests | Land use | Norwegian climate policy

PathFinder - Towards an Integrated Consistent European LULUCF Monitoring and Policy Pathway Assessment Framework

The EU-funded PathFinder project contributes to improved understanding of the potential role of Europe’s forest management in mitigating climate change while protecting biodiversity and supporting the bioeconomy.

Forests | Land use

ACRoBEAR – Arctic Community Resilience to Boreal Environmental change: Assessing Risks from fire and disease

How resilient are Arctic communities to boreal environmental change and risks from fire and disease?

Forests | Temperature changes | Heat waves

LAMACLIMA – Land Management for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

The LAMACLIMA project aims to advance the understanding of the coupled effects between land cover and land management, climate and the economy, informing sustainable land-based adaptation and mitigation.

Climate impacts internationally | Forests | Food and agriculture | Heat waves | Land use

Quantifying Climate Impacts of Future Forest Management Strategies in Norway

The international community has agreed that the increase in global temperature must be limited to 2°C above the pre-industrial levels. Meeting this ambitious goal requires a large-scale shift away from the fossil economy towards one based on renewable materials and energy like biomass.

Forests | Carbon emissions Norway

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Events

14 mai 2025

Norway’s carbon uptake under climate change

Norwegian forests and land areas absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide every year, but this carbon uptake has unexpectedly declined about 40% in the last decade. This jeopardises climate targets and means more carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere, leading to additional global warming. Norway is not alone, with many European countries seeing the same trends.

18 november 2025

COP30: Greening Achilles’ heel sectors: Possibilities and barriers to climate policies in Latin American primary industry sectors

Latin America has a unique biodiversity and abundant natural resources, making the region’s climate politics indispensable for attaining global environmental targets. Most Latin American countries also have large export-oriented primary industries like fossil-fuel extraction, mining, and industrial agriculture.

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Research groups

Climate System

The Climate System group conducts research to understand the physical changes and evolution of the global and regional climate system, the underlying driving human-induced and natural processes, and the subsequent consequences.

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