Phone: +47 22 00 47 85 / +47 411 40 665
E-mail: christian.bjornas@cicero.oslo.no
Experienced science journalist, project manager and strategic communications leader
As leader of CICERO’s communication work, Christian is responsible for our branding, PR and out reach activities. He was hired in 2007 to write two books on climate science: Klima forklart and State of the Poles. Christian has developed and lead numerous communication projects at CICERO. He has lead Klimaforum – Norway’s first network to engage decision makers and academics in climate debates, organised daily press briefings for Norwegian journalists at COP15 in Copenhagen, built an online platform to show case Nordic energy solutions and coordinated CICERO’s pavilion at COP21 in Paris.
Christian has also worked on several research projects to increase our understanding of climate communication, for example IPCC AR5 in Europe, and performed media analysis for the book Climate Change in the Media. Christian is very engaged in issues around climate communication and was proud to chair the IPCC expert meeting on climate communication and to have increased the collaboration and information sharing among European colleagues.
Christian is also chairing the board of the Minor Foundation for Major Challenges.
Projects
- IPCC AR5 in Europe How does IPCC influence decision-making? This research project seeks to find out.
- Klimavalg 2017
Publications and outreach at CICERO
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Report/dissertation
2018
- Astrid Arnslett, Christian Bjørnæs, Elisabeth Lannoo, 2018 Effektiv klimakommunikasjon -Trender og fakta 2018 NB
2016
- Asbjørn Torvanger, Christian Bjørnæs, Harald Francke Lund, Bob van Oort, 2016 Visjoner av lavkarbon Norge NB
Book
2012
- Christian Bjørnæs, Pål Prestrud, 2012 The State of the Poles EN
2010
- Christian Bjørnæs, 2010 Klima forklart NB
Web articles
- IPCC AR5 in Europe How does IPCC influence decision-making? This research project seeks to find out.
- A guide to Representative Concentration Pathways The Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) is the latest generation of scenarios that provideinput to climate models.
- It’s like talking to the wall We would like to believe that if we just give people the right information, they will grasp the scope of the climate problem. That’s naive thinking.
- Former UN climate advisor leads initiative to regulate geo-engineering Geo-engineering can be a cheap way of instantly lowering the Earth’s temperature - with potentially devastating side effects. The technology is here but international regulation is lacking.