Publications

Below is a list of my academic publication. You also find an overview on my Google Scholar or ORCID profiles, and in my Zotero library.

In addition to the publications below, I have also published two books in Norwegian, called Hvem bestemmer over klimaet? and Klimaspillet.

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Bård Lahn, Ida Sognnaes and Erlend A. T. Hermansen (2025). Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice. npj Climate Action 4 (1): 117.
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Fay M. Farstad, Erlend A. T. Hermansen and Bård Lahn (2025). For Better or for Worse: A Break with Norway's Consensual Climate Tradition? Pp. 163-175 in Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (ed. Paul Tobin, Matthew Paterson, Stacy D. VanDeveer). Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 978-1-009-35245-1)
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Kristin Asdal and Bård Lahn (2024). Governing as Valuing: Assetization and the Making of the Norwegian Oil Fund. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 56 (8): 2089–104.
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Bård Lahn (2023). Klimapolitikk i oljestaten: Robust folkestyre eller sementerte næringsinteresser? Norsk Sosiologisk Tidsskrift 7 (4–5): 63–75.
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Shinichiro Asayama, Kari De Pryck, Silke Beck, et al. (2023). Three Institutional Pathways to Envision the Future of the IPCC. Nature Climate Change 13: 877–880.
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Bård Lahn (2022). Carbon Connections: On the Work of Making Climate Change an Issue for Politics and Government. Thesis (Ph.D.), Universitetet i Oslo.
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Bård Lahn (2022). Boundary Objects. Pp. 225-233 in A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ed. Kari De Pryck, Mike Hulme). Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 9781316514276)
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Ida Dokk Smith, Bård Lahn and Indra Øverland (2022). Klimaklubbkvaler. Internasjonal Politikk 80 (1): 1.
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Bård Lahn (2021). Changing Climate Change: the Carbon Budget and the Modifying-work of the IPCC. Social Studies of Science 51 (1): 3-27.
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Kristina Alnes, Håkon Sælen, Harald Francke Lund, et al. (2021). Climate Assessments of Six Key Norwegian Sectors. (Report 2021:02) Oslo: CICERO Centre for International Climate Research.
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Kate Dooley, Ceecee Holz, Sivan Kartha, et al. (2021). Ethical Choices behind Quantifications of Fair Contributions under the Paris Agreement. Nature Climate Change 11 (4): 300-305.
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Erlend A. T. Hermansen, Bård Lahn, Göran Sundqvist, et al. (2021). Post-Paris Policy Relevance: Lessons from the IPCC SR15 Process. Climatic Change 169 (1): 7.
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Bård Lahn (2020). A History of the Global Carbon Budget. WIREs Climate Change 11 (3): e636.
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Bård Lahn (2019). Norwegian Petroleum Policy in a Changing Climate. (Report 2019-10) Oslo: CICERO Centre for International Climate Research.
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Guri Bang and Bård Lahn (2019). From Oil as Welfare to Oil as Risk? Norwegian Petroleum Resource Governance and Climate Policy. Climate Policy 20 (8): 997–1009.
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Sivan Kartha, Tom Athanasiou, Simon Caney, et al. (2018). Cascading Biases against Poorer Countries. Nature Climate Change 8 (5): 348–49.
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Bård Lahn (2018). In the Light of Equity and Science: Scientific Expertise and Climate Justice after Paris. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 18 (1): 29–43.
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Elin Lerum Boasson and Bård Lahn (2017). Norway: A Dissonant Cognitive Leader? In Still Taking a Lead? The European Union in International Climate Change Politics (ed. Rudiger K. Wurzel, James Connelly, Duncan Liefferink). London: Routledge.
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Bård Lahn (2017). Redusert oljeutvinning som klimatiltak: Faglige og politiske perspektiver. (Report Policy Note 2017:01) Oslo: CICERO Centre for International Climate Research.
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Bård Lahn and Göran Sundqvist (2017). Science as a "Fixed Point"? Quantification and Boundary Objects in International Climate Politics. Environmental Science & Policy 67: 8–15.
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Bård Lahn (2016). Forests through the Paper Mill: Assembling REDD+ through the Production of Documents. Thesis (MA), University of Oslo.
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Bård Lahn and Merethe Dotterud Leiren (2016). Klimapolitikk i Norden: En sammenligning av mål og virkemidler i de nordiske landene. (Report 2016:07) Oslo: CICERO Centre for International Climate Research.
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Bård Lahn and Göran Sundqvist (2015). Et fast punkt for klimaet? Vitenskap og politikk i den svarte "Bali-boksen". Sosiologi i dag 45 (1): 31-52.
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Bård Lahn (2015). Fra København til Paris: FNs klimatoppmøter og rettferdig fordeling av atmosfæren. Internasjonal Politikk 73 (04): 538–46.
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Bård Lahn and Elana Wilson Rowe (2015). How to Be a "Front-Runner": Norway in International Climate Politics. Pp. 126-145 in Small States and Status Seeking: Norway's Quest for International Standing (ed. Benjamin de Carvalho, Iver B. Neumann). Oxford: Routledge. (ISBN 978-0-415-75036-3)
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Bård Lahn (2010). Togradersmålet og åpning av nye leteområder på norsk sokkel. Oslo: Norges Naturvernforbund.
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