China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an example of how decarbonization processes interact with the geopolitical dynamics.
In this webinar, Karl Hallding places the China’s ambitions in the climate and energy area in a geopolitical context and discusses how China's growing global ambitions may affect the conditions for sustainable development.
The fossil fuel-based energy system contributes to environmental and climate problems. Climate-driven energy policies will affect the geopolitics of energy.
Assessing prospects for Zero Hunger requires an understanding of food security that goes beyond humanitarian issues to include linkages with geopolitics.
China’s international ambition, expressed and implemented through the BRI, affects our chances to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement...
This brief shows how the EU Commission’s approach to just transition may influence the politics of decarbonization within the EU.
The program brings together diverse disciplines and research approaches spanning peace and conflict; human security; global environmental governance; global environmental change; and the effectiveness of domestic, regional, and global policy-making.
This article develops an innovative theoretical framework to understand the factors that influence the governance responses of international organizations to adaptation challenges in the context of their respective issue areas.
Can China actually lead the Green Revolution? And can global emissions ever significantly go down if China does not play its part?
This paper aims to decipher the literature on SDG interactions by providing an overview of the current research, based on a sample of 70 peer-reviewed articles.
How can content and results from Mistra's research programmes contribute to a sustainable recovery and long-term social transformation?
Mistra announced a package of 60 million SEK for Mistra Geopolitics to fund research and stakeholder engagement at six leading Swedish universities and institutes, starting in January 2021.
This report helps structure the interrelationship between geopolitics and decarbonisation and identifies pertinent questions on future trends.
Is China trying to reshape the nature of international order through the Belt and Road Initiative?
Is China trying to reshape the nature of international order through the Belt and Road Initiative?
Mistra Geopolitics Research School organized a two-day "walkshop" where they combined in-depth discussions of research projects in progress and explored walking as a methodological practice.
The need for societal transformation is increasingly acknowledged in policy, planning, academia and media to achieve decarbonization, resilience, national development plans or sustainability objectives.
Rather than promising secure futures, the anthropocene places us at an uncomfortable juncture where irreversible loss and damage has already occurred.
New study finds most countries are not prepared for impacts of unexpectedly rapid market penetration of Electronic Vehicles.
New study shows climate change has increased conflict risks historically, but low socioeconomic development and low capabilities of the state are more influential.
China’s growing economic and political footprint in fragile and developing country contexts has become an increasingly significant development actor.
The theme at the Havs- och vattenforum 2019 was “adaptation to climate change.” The forum, held yearly, aims to increase knowledge about HaV’s business area, exchange ideas about current issues and find
How can we use the latest scenario methodology to increase our knowledge about the ongoing transformation of the energy system? What research from the Mistra Geopolitics program is of most relevans and interest for you?
The second annual conference in the Mistra Geopolitics program held on 30 – 31st January 2019, has come to an end. Eva Krutmeijer reflects on the conference from a communications perspective.
The scenario set identifies key drivers of change, describes the relationships between them and imagines pathways leading to four different worlds in 2050.
December 3rd marks the 50-year anniversary of when climate change was first discussed in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The Swedish UN Ambassador, Sverker Åström, warned in his speech
On 16 and 17 of November the international conference The Future of Transatlantic Relations: Challenges in Trade, Security and Environmental Policy – FOTAR2018 was held in Hamburg, bringing together politicians, academics,
Three researchers from Peru, Brazil and Nigeria have joined the Mistra Geopolitics Research School. These next-generation scholars with diverse research expertise are spending four months with Swedish partner institutions SIPRI
A new study in PNAS finds that aid provided by the United Nations (UN) in the aftermath of climate-related disasters is driven by humanitarian need rather than by strategic donor interests. The results underline the importance of climate-related hazards for understanding aid disbursements.