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Guri Bang

Guri Bang

Professor

  • International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric

Guri Bang is a Professor of Environmental Governance at Noragric. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Oslo, and her research explores issues like the political feasibility of energy system transitions, the impact of right-wing populism on climate policy, and the dynamics of international climate negotiations. She has published extensively on international climate cooperation, U.S. climate and energy policy, and opposition to fossil fuel phase-out policies in the US, EU and Norway. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including Global Environmental Politics, Climate Policy, and Environmental Politics. She has led multiple research projects and actively collaborates with both Norwegian and international researchers in projects on climate governance and the energy transition. Previous to joining Noragric, she worked as a research director for CICERO Center for international climate research, and a research professor for NUPI Norwegian institute of international affairs.

  • Areas of Work
    • International climate cooperation
    • Climate- and energy policy in the United States
    • Just energy transitions
    • Geopolitical Ecology
    • Right-wing populism and climate policy
  • Publications

    Academic profile and publications

    Selected publications:

    Bang, G. (2025). The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act: Climate policy as economic crisis response. Environmental Politics, 34(7), 1216–1237. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2437886 

    Harrison, Kathryn and Guri Bang (2022): Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction. Global Environmental Politics 22 (4): 129–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00682

    Bang, Guri 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. 

    Bang, Guri, Steinar Andresen and David Victor (2017): California’s cap-and-trade system – Diffusion and lessons, Global Environmental Politics 17(3): 12-30.

    Bang, Guri, Jon Hovi and Tora Skodvin (2016): The Paris Agreement: Short-term and Long-term Effectiveness. Politics and Governance (ISSN: 2183-2463) 2016, 4 (3): 209-218 

    Bang, Guri, Arild Underdal and Steinar Andresen (editors) (2015): The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change. Key Actors in International Climate Cooperation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing .

    Skjærseth, Jon Birger, Guri Bang and Miranda Schreurs (2013): Explaining Growing Climate Policy Differences between the European Union and the United States. Global Environmental Politics, 13 (4):  61-80. 

    Hovi, Jon, Detlef Sprinz and Guri Bang (2012): ‘Why the United States Did Not Become a Party to the Kyoto Protocol: German, Norwegian, and U.S. Perspectives.’ European Journal of International Relations, 18 (1): 129-150. 

    Bang, Guri (2011): ‘Signed but not ratified: Limits to U.S. participation in international environmental agreements.’ Review of Policy Research, 28 (1): pp. 65-81. 

    Bang, Guri (2010): ‘Energy security and climate change concerns: Triggers for energy policy change in the United States?’ Energy Policy, 38 (4): 1645-1653. 

    Næss, Lars Otto, Guri Bang, Siri Eriksen and Jonas Vevatne (2005): ‘Institutional adaptation to climate change in Norway’ Global Environmental Change,15(2): 125-38. 

  • Teaching

    EDS333 Field Course in Geopolitical Ecology

    EDS348 Global Environmental Politics

  • Research and projects