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Two postdocs in international and EU climate politics at Stockholm University
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science – international climate politics and non-state actors at the Department of Political Science. Closing date: 4 October 2024.
The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education- and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading and internationally prominent within its field of research and education. More information about us, please visit: the Department of Political Science.
Project description
The postdoctoral postion will be part of the 4-year research project “Achieving High Integrity Voluntary Climate Action” (ACHIEVE), funded by the European Union’s HORIZON EUROPE Research Innovation Program and led by Radboud University in the Netherlands. An unprecedented number of voluntary climate commitments have been made by a wide array of non-state and subnational actors. Together, these actions can contribute significantly to the achievement of the Paris Climate Agreement.Yet, non-state and local actors’ environmental claims are often unsubstantiated. Integrity is therefore key to realizing the promise of voluntary climate action by many actors, and to actually prevent and combat climate change. The ACHIEVE research project will identify opportunities to strengthen and scale up voluntary climate action, with the aim of achieving a worldwide net-zero society by 2050.At the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Karin Bäckstrand is coordinating a work package on governance and regulation of non-state climate committemtns within the ACHIEVE project, which will investifate: (1) whether and how national regulations and policies affect the emergence and effectiveness of high-integrity voluntary climate action by non-state actors in selected countries; (2) the extent to which high integrity principles are promoted among memberships of voluntary climate action platforms and initiatives in the selected countries; and (3) whether and how high integrity voluntary climate action by non-state actors support effective regulations at the national and EU levels.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science with an orientation towards climate and energy governance in the European Union at the Department of Political Science. Closing date: 4 October 2024.
The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education- and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading and internationally prominent within its field of research and education. More information about us, please visit: the Department of Political Science.
Project description
The postdoctoral postion will be part of the 4-year research project “Rising to the Challenge of the Climate Transition: EU’s Leadership in a Just and Effective Transformation towards Climate Neutrality amidst Turbulence, Crises, and Political Conflicts”, funded by the Swedish Research Council on Sustainable Development (FORMAS). Aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the European Union’s (EU) implementation of the European Green Deal, the ‘Fit for 55’ package and the 2040 climate targets is complicated by turbulence compounded by multiple crises, such as Russia’s war against Ukraine, the energy crisis and the economic recession. This project examines the efforts by the EU and selected Member states to accelerate the transformation toward a climate-neutral society through a theoretical framework on the interaction between turbulence and policy change and a mixed methods design (document analysis, interviews, surveys).The project will provide policy-relevant knowledge and recommendations on how to make EU’s decarbonization and green transition more effective, just and legitimate. The project is led by Karin Bäckstrand at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Other project consortium members are Sebastian Oberthür at the Brussels School of Governance at Vrije University Brussels and Charles Parker at the Department of Political Science at Uppsala University.
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