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Björn-Ola Linnér (born 1963) is a Swedish climate policy scholar and professor at Linköping University. He is program director of Mistra Geopolitics, a research programme that critically examines and explores the interplay between the dynamics of geopolitics, human security, and global environmental change. He is also affiliated at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University and the Stockholm Environment Institute.
Björn-Ola Linnér | |
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Björn-Ola Linnér outside the Swedish Parliament 2018. Photo by David Brohede. | |
| Born | 1963 Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Lund University, Sweden |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Climate policy |
Linnér was born in 1963, Sweden. He received a PhD degree in 1998 on the dissertation The world household: Georg Borgström and the postwar population–resource crisis.,[1] which was later reworked into the book The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Postwar Population–Resource Crises, where he analyses neo-Malthusianism in conservationism, environmentalism and in international politics in the 20th century.[2] In 2008, he was appointed professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change at Linköping University.[3]
Linnér is currently program director of Mistra Geopolitics, a research programme that critically examines and explores the interplay between the dynamics of geopolitics, human security, and global environmental change. He is also affiliated as a researcher at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University, the Stockholm Environment Institute, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Linnér's climate policy research focuses on societal transformations to sustainability,[4][5] linkages between climate and sustainable development policy,[6] international climate governance[7][8][9][10][11] and tools for climate visualization.[12]
He is associate editor of the Oxford research encyclopedia of climate science.[13]
He is advisor to international organisations, ministries and agencies as well as industry and civil society organisations. He has been scientific expert in the Swedish delegation to negotiations of the Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He held the Research and Independent NGO constituency's address at the High-level segment of UNFCCC Conference (Copenhagen 2009). He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and a lead author of the IPBES' assessment report on Transformative Change.
Linnér is frequently engaged in public debate on international climate policy.
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