Research Funding Awarded to Olof Larsson and Markus Johansson!

Congratulations to CERGU researchers Olof Larsson (PI) and Markus Johansson, who have received 3.98 million SEK from Formas for their project Identifying capacity shortages preventing a successful EU environmental policy.

Short summary:
Do the member states of the European Union (EU) have the capacities required to live up to the EU's climate and environmental goals? What capacities do they lack, and what can be done about it? These are the questions that this project aims to answer. As the EU's environmental policy goals have become ever more ambitious, the fact that the member states often fail to implement these policies has become an increasingly alarming problem. In this project, we will use a bottom-up approach, and start with identified instances of failure to implement environmental policy in the EU member states. We will then determine what the specific causes of the failure was, including distinct capacity problems. Next, we analyze how different forms of capacity problems affect each other, and how they vary across different member states.