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Jessica Jewell

Associate Professor
  • E-mailjessica.jewell@uib.no
  • Visitor Address
    Fosswinckels gate 6
    Lauritz Meltzers hus
    5007 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7802
    5020 Bergen

Jessica Jewell is a Professor at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen and an Associate Professor in Energy Transitions at the Department of Space, Earth and Environment at Chalmers University. Her research focuses on the feasibility of climate action and quantifying the dynamics and mechanisms of energy transitions using a variety of disciplinary approaches and methods. She is a recipient of a European Research Council's Starting Grant as well as the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council and a leader of work packages in collaborative research projects supported by European and Swedish funding bodies.

Dr. Jewell is also a Guest Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and a Senior Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute as well as a member of several editorial boards including Energy Research and Social Science, Oxford Open Energy, and the Routledge series on Energy Transitions. She was a contributing author in the IPCC 5th assessment report, a lead author in the Global Energy Assessment and in the report for the UN Secretary General on the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. She also led the development of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) model of short-term energy security. Previously, she worked at the IIASA in Vienna and the IEA in Paris.

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). Phasing out coal for 2 °C target requires worldwide replication of most ambitious national plans despite security and fairness concerns. Environmental Research Letters.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Historical diffusion of nuclear, wind and solar power in different national contexts: implications for climate mitigation pathways. Environmental Research Letters.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Have climate policies accelerated energy transitions? Historical evolution of electricity mix in the G7 and the EU compared to net-zero targets. Energy Research & Social Science.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Feasibility trade-offs in decarbonising the power sector with high coal dependence: The case of Korea. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum. Nature Climate Change.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Coal phase-out pledges follow peak coal: evidence from 60 years of growth and decline in coal power capacity worldwide. Oxford Open Energy. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Pathway to a land-neutral expansion of Brazilian renewable fuel production. Nature Communications.
  • Show author(s) (2021). National growth dynamics of wind and solar power compared to the growth required for global climate targets. Nature Energy. 742-754.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally. One Earth. 1026-1036.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Historical precedents and feasibility of rapid coal and gas decline required for the 1.5°C target. One Earth. 1477-1490.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Failing the formative phase: The global diffusion of nuclear power is limited by national markets. Energy Research & Social Science. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs. Environmental Research Letters. 1-13.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Reply to: Why fossil fuel producer subsidies matter. Nature. E5-E7.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions. Energy Research & Social Science. 1-7.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The international technological nuclear cooperation landscape: A new dataset and network analysis. Energy Policy. 838-852.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Prospects for powering past coal. Nature Climate Change. 592-597.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Limited emission reductions from fuel subsidy removal except in energy-exporting regions. Nature. 229-233.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework. Energy Research & Social Science. 175-190.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2019). A regression analysis of differences between countries where coal-based electricity supply is contracting and countries where it is growing: Evidence from 40 countries over 25 years (1990-2015).
Errata
  • Show author(s) (2022). Author Correction: Pathway to a land-neutral expansion of Brazilian renewable fuel production (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (3157), 10.1038/s41467-022-30850-2). Nature Communications.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2023). The feasibility of climate action: Bridging the inside and the outside view through feasibility spaces. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (WIRESs).
  • Show author(s) (2022). Phases of fossil fuel decline: Diagnostic framework for policy sequencing and feasible transition pathways in resource dependent regions. Oxford Open Energy.
  • Show author(s) (2020). On the political feasibility of climate change mitigation pathways: Is it too late to keep warming below 1.5° C? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (WIRESs). 1-12.

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