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Published Nov. 7, 2023 9:00 AM

This academic year brings with it two new Sustainability Law electives at the University of Oslo, resulting also in a new student series in Blogging for Sustainability.    

Published Oct. 21, 2022 9:26 AM

The seventh international annual workshop of Daughter of Themis brought together 14 business scholars from universities in different cities all around the world (Oslo, Amsterdam, Stockholm, London, Nairobi, Vancouver, Zagreb, Porto, São Paulo) to discuss gender equality in business.

Published Jan. 21, 2022 11:48 AM

Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the corporate disregard of the connection between economics and ecology has come to an uncomfortable reckoning. Unprecedented shifts to mitigate global warming and other environmental and social crises are needed. The volume Innovating Business for Sustainability: Regulatory Approaches in the Anthropocene responds to these challenges through an interdisciplinary investigation of the possibilities for embedding sustainability into business within legal and regulatory landscapes.

Published Jan. 11, 2022 5:22 PM

A new volume on Sustainable Value Creation in the EU is now in print. This volume is the result of a long journey, beginning early in 2015, when a group of scholars organised an event in reaction to the economic crisis in Greece, which they saw as a symptom of broader European and global problems (rather than as a Greek problem).

Published June 10, 2021 11:21 AM

EMPOWER, an interdisciplinary project aimed at developing an encompassing long-term strategy on sustainable batteries, was awarded one the two first UiO:Energi convergence environments funding. The project EMPOWER aims at answering the overarching research question: how can batteries used in mobility empower the transition to a net-zero energy system in Norway?

Published Dec. 1, 2019 7:34 PM

Change in business practice is urgently needed to achieve sustainability. The deterioration of our biosphere has direct impacts on human welfare and political progress towards the realization of human rights. We must ensure business respect for human rights is a minimum standard in the drive for sustainability, say SMART project leader Beate Sjåfjell and researcher Mark B. Taylor.   

Published Oct. 18, 2019 11:14 AM

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