On 24 October 2025 Dr. Junhui Hu successfully defended her thesis "The Forest-Based Climate Mitigation in the Nordic Region: Economic Trade-Offs, Biomass Competition, and Carbon Leakage Risk"
Junhui (June) Hu has been a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, at NMBU. Her research was performed within Bio4Fuels' Work Package 1.3 - Energy, Fuels and Economics.
English title of thesis
"The Forest-Based Climate Mitigation in the Nordic Region: Economic Trade-Offs, Biomass Competition, and Carbon Leakage Risk"
Norwegian title of thesis
"Tiltak i Nordiske skoger for å motvirke klimaendringer: Økonomiske avveininger, konkurranse om biomasse og risiko for karbonlekkasje"
Prescribed subject of trial lecture
"Socio-economic and biodiversity impacts of different climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector"
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Professor Karl Robert Lundmark (Luelå University of Technology, Sweden).
Second opponent: Professor Hanne Katrine Sjølie (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway).
Committee coordinator: Professor Anders Q. Nyrud (MINA/NMBU).
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Per Kr. Rørstad (MINA/NMBU).
Co-supervisors: Dr. Torjus Folsland Bolkesjø (Statkraft, Norway), Professor Erik Trømborg (MINA/NMBU) and Associate Professor Eirik Ogner Jåstad (MINA/NMBU).
The thesis is available via NMBU's library.