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Ida Dokk Smith
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Ida is a Senior Research Fellow in the Research group on climate and energy. Her primary research interests are climate, energy and environmental politics. Particularly she has worked on topics related to domestic and international energy transitions; including policy tools to promote green technologies, just transition, and American climate and energy policy. She has done fieldwork in Tanzania, Uganda and the US on renewable energy development and natural resource management.
Ida holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oslo and Master of International Affairs (MIA) from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs.
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Education
2021 Phd in Political science, University of Oslo.
2012 Master of International Affairs (MIA) (Concentration energy policy), Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
2006 Bachelor of Economics, University of Bergen
Work Experience
2021- Senior research Fellow, NUPI
2020 Research Fellow, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute
2012-2019 PhD Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
2008-2010 Senior-Associate Management Consultant, PWC
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Clear all filtersEnergy Transition and Social Movements: The Rise of a Community Choice Movement in California
This chapter examines the rise of a community choice movement in California. Here local governments launch community choice aggregation programs, one after the other, that promise higher renewable energy content than the existing investor-owned utilities. I view the movement as an expression of local climate interests fused with anti-utility resentment, and use the three lenses from social movement theory—political opportunities, mobilizing structures and framing processes—to analyze the emergence and development of the movement. This bottom-up process unfolds in a state that has some of the most ambitious climate policies and renewable energy goals in the US. The effectiveness of the community choice model as a climate policy tool is contested. However, the movement’s aim is not only to decarbonize the electricity system but to build an electricity system that utilizes more local renewable energy resources.
The European Union's CBAM as a de facto Climate Club: The Governance Challenges
The European Commission has announced far-reaching reforms to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Among the proposals constituting the European Green Deal is the adoption of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to prevent carbon leakage. In practice, however, CBAM will not only act as a shield for the European Emissions Trading System (ETS) but also incentivize other countries to implement compatible carbon pricing schemes. We argue that the EU's CBAM thus de facto has the features of a climate club, but the current proposals and debate do not address how the club would be governed, addressing them involves a trade-off between maintaining control over the direction and ambition of climate policy and CBAM's legitimacy.
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