Vegard Tørstad

Research interests

Publications

• Macroeconomic crises and green recovery spending: Introducing the CLIMREC dataset

  npj Climate Action · 2025 · 10.1038/s44168-025-00226-5

• The Ambition Trap: How Overpromising on Climate Action Could Undermine the Paris Agreement

  Global Environmental Politics · 2025 · 10.1162/glep_a_00777

• Commitment ambiguity and ambition in climate pledges

  The Review of International Organizations · 2024 · 10.1007/s11558-024-09575-y

• Economic recessions and decarbonisation: analysing green stimulus spending in Canada and the US

  New Political Economy · 2023 · 10.1080/13563467.2023.2294744

• The relative effectiveness of overlapping international institutions: European Union versus United Nations regulations of air pollution

  International Political Science Review · 2023 · 10.1177/01925121221145496

• Mobilizing non-state actors for climate action through the global stocktake

  Nature Climate Change · 2023 · 10.1038/s41558-023-01811-4

• Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council

  Journal of Peace Research · 2023 · 10.1177/00223433221123996

• Participation, ambition and compliance: can the Paris Agreement solve the effectiveness trilemma?

  Environmental Politics · 2020 · 10.1080/09644016.2019.1710322

• Fairness conceptions and self-determined mitigation ambition under the Paris Agreement: Is there a relationship?

  Environmental Science & Policy · 2019 · 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.08.018

• The domestic politics of international climate commitments: which factors explain cross-country variation in NDC ambition?

  Environmental Research Letters · 2019 · 10.1088/1748-9326/ab63e0

• Fairness in the climate negotiations: what explains variation in parties’ expressed conceptions?

  Climate Policy · 2017 · 10.1080/14693062.2017.1341372

Current projects

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