Publications

Vegard Tørstad, Jon Hovi, Manjana Milkoreit, Håkon Sælen, Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit (2025). The Ambition Trap: How Overpromising on Climate Action Could Undermine the Paris Agreement. Global Environmental Politics.

Vegard Tørstad, Tatjana Stankovic, Jonas Nahm, Jon Hovi, Johannes Urpelainen (2025). Macroeconomic crises and green recovery spending: Introducing the CLIMREC dataset. npj Climate Action.

Vegard Tørstad, Vegard Wiborg (2024). Commitment Ambiguity and Ambition in Climate Pledges. The Review of International Organizations.

Vegard Tørstad, Jonas Nahm, Jon Hovi, Tora Skodvin, Gard Olav Dietrichson (2024). Economic recessions and decarbonisation: analysing green stimulus spending in Canada and the US. New Political Economy.

Jonathan Kuyper, Vegard Tørstad (2023). Mobilizing non-state actors for climate action through the global stocktake. Nature Climate Change.

Vegard Tørstad (2023). Can Transparency Strengthen the Legitimacy of International Institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council. Journal of Peace Research.

Andreas K. Tveit, Vegard Tørstad (2023). The Relative Effectiveness of Overlapping International Institutions: EU versus UN Regulations of Air Pollution. International Political Science Review.

Vegard Tørstad, Håkon Sælen, Live S. Bøyum (2020). The domestic politics of international climate commitments: which factors explain cross-country variation in NDC ambition?. Environmental Research Letters.

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Vegard Tørstad (2020). Participation, ambition and compliance: can the Paris Agreement solve the effectiveness trilemma?. Environmental Politics.

Håkon Sælen, Vegard Tørstad, Christian Holz, Tobias Dan Nielsen (2019). Fairness conceptions and self-determined mitigation ambition under the Paris Agreement: Is there a relationship?. Environmental Science & Policy.

Vegard Tørstad, Håkon Sælen (2018). Fairness in the climate negotiations: what explains variation in parties’ expressed conceptions?. Climate Policy.