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        Björn Nykvist

        Team Leader: Energy and Industry Transitions; Senior Research Fellow

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      • Expertise: innovations, policy analysis, governance, transitions, socio-technical systems
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      Dr. Björn Nykvist is a Senior Research Fellow and Team Leader: Energy and Industry Transitions. He has conducted interdisciplinary research on sustainability, climate change, and governance of energy, transport and natural resources since joining SEI in 2005.

      Björn’s main research interests are innovations, policy analysis, and governance of transitions of socio-technical systems. Recent and ongoing research projects investigate transitions to low-carbon transport systems with a special focus on electrification of vehicles. Past research has covered social learning, ecosystems services, planetary boundaries, and energy systems broadly.

      He has written and contributed 30 peer-reviewed papers in a diverse set of international publications covering both natural and social sciences including top ranked journals such as Nature, Nature Climate Change, TREE, and Global Environmental Change.

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      Publications by Björn Nykvist

      • How sustainable is the transformation in road freight?
      • Too risky – the role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions
      • Phasing out the blast furnace to meet global climate targets
      • The feasibility of heavy battery electric trucks
      • Financing the decarbonisation of heavy industry sectors in Sweden
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      Perspectives by Björn Nykvist

      • Policy – not capital – is the chief barrier to decarbonizing heavy industry in Sweden
      • A public-private path to decarbonizing industry and achieving net-zero emissions
      • Electrify everything?
      • Electric cars are ready for a breakthrough: 8 steps to make it possible
      • Falling battery prices boost outlook for electric vehicles

      Featured stories with Björn Nykvist

      • Policies, not finance, are the obstacle to decarbonizing industry
      • A just transition
      • Planetary boundaries analysis highlights need for better policies on chemicals
      • Novel research on scaling down planetary boundaries
      • Q&A: Karl Hallding on resource scarcity and a new global paradigm

      Projects and tools with Björn Nykvist

      • Laddinfra Pro
      • CAST
      • JUSTIT
      • JUSTIT
      • Governing a fair transition to a fossil-free welfare society
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