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Kirstine Lund Christiansen

PhD fellow

  • Rolighedsvej 23

    1958 Frederiksberg C

  • Source: Scopus
20212024

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Personal profile

Short presentation

I am a PhD fellow in political ecology at Copenhagen University, where I am part of the research project 'The (re-)production of green imaginaries through Natural Climate Solutions', which receives funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Today, more companies and organisations are setting net-zero or climate-neutral pledges, while public scrutiny of potential greenwashing has increased. This has caused renewed interest in the voluntary carbon market as a mechanism to achieve climate mitigation while also strengthening calls for reforming the market to ensure greater quality and integrity. In my research, I explore ideas about how the voluntary carbon market can be improved to deliver meaningful change.

As part of my research, I explore the role of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a new rallying point for climate mitigation. I am especially interested in how the CDR agenda provides further impetus to utilise nature and ecosystems as carbon sinks and how ideas of Natural Climate Solutions, Nature-based Solutions and nature restoration are evoked and discussed.

I build on interdisciplinary research traditions, and my research is influenced by scholarship from science and technology studies, critical political economy and political ecology. I have a background in political science, sustainability science and environmental studies.

Supervisors: Jens Friis Lund (University of Copenhagen) and Kate Dooley (University of Melbourne).

Education/Academic qualification

Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science, Master, Lund University

Sep 2018Jun 2020

Political science, Bachelor, University of Copenhagen

Sep 2014Feb 2018

External positions

Advisor, Energistyrelsen

Apr 2021Aug 2021

Research assistant, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies

Jul 2020Feb 2021

Tutor, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies

Aug 2019Oct 2019

Intern, Den danske ambassade i Pretoria

Feb 2018Jul 2018

Student assistant, DIIS - Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier

Dec 2016Jun 2020

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