Vista Analyse and Sintef are joining forces to assess the potential for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Norway and estimate abatement costs for commercially available CCS-technologies. The...

The Polish Ministry of Environment and the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment had a joint seminar on Just Transition in Krakow 25 October. The Polish research institute IOS-PIB and Vista...

Steinar Strøm og Bjørnar Andreas Kvinge i Vista Analyse har sammen med Pernille Parmer, Helge Sandvig Thorsen og Inger Ubbe publisert en artikkel i CESifo. Artikkelen er en empirisk analyse av...

Norway has a long-standing quality assurance scheme for major public investment projects. The quality assurance scheme has proved effective in preventing cost overruns, but less attention has been...

With Ewelina Siwiec of Institute of Environmental Protection in Poland, Vista researchers Anne Erlandsen and Haakon Vennemo have published a paper on costs and benefits of creating rain gardens in...

Partner and professor Haakon Vennemo at Vista has contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability, which was published recently at Palgrave Macmillan. The title of his contribution, with...

Vista Analyse has prepared a methodology document that provides guidance on how to perform a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the context of climate change adaptation, as well as how the methodology could be...

Vista Analyse will assist the Government of Georgia in preparing practical guidelines for valuation of impacts on biodiversity and water-soil pollution/contamination from activities connected to...

Vista has conducted a study, commissioned by the Working Group on Environment and Economy (MEG) of the Nordic Council of Ministers, on the environmental impacts and potential of the sharing economy....

Last week Vista Analyse received a group of around 30 visitors from Poland who wanted to learn about climate change adaptation in Norway. The group met with representatives from the Norwegian Water...

June 12th, Nina Bruvik Westberg and Sofie Waage Skjeflo presented the paper Demand for climate resilient housing – Experimental evidence from Vietnam, at the 16th Nordic Conference in Development...

Eivind Tandberg from Vista Analysis is engaged in two projects to provide advice to the finance ministries in Albania and Moldova on management of their fiscal risks. Both countries have committed to...

Vista Analysis will be undertaking a project about climate change adaptation in 106 Polish cities, in cooperation with the Polish research institute IOS-PIB (Institute of Environmental Protection -...

Eivind Tandberg from Vista Analysis recently contributed to a regional workshop on public investment management in Southern Africa, with participants from Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Lesotho,...

Vista are working further on climate adaptation in Vietnam and participated in workshops 24-28th October in Da Nang. The aim was to discuss how micro finance and other support to poor households can...

With Cicero and the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planners Vista Analysis has, for the last three years, cooperated with environmental planners in the three Chinese provinces Jiangsu, Anhui and...

Vietnam is very vulnerable to climate change such as typhoons and floods. Vista recently entered into an agreement to work on climate adaptation in the country. Together with local partners, we will...

Vista is currently contributing to the Sino-Norwegian project on “Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Values into Policy-making in China”. The project is managed by the Norwegian...

In cooperation with Aarhus University, Vista leads an ongoing project for the Nordic Council of Ministers about the value of landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service. There are large...

Haakon Vennemo in Vista held Monday a guest lecture at NHH’s course in natural resource and environmental economics for master students. Vennemo was invited by professor Gunnar Eskeland. The topic...

Henrik Lindhjem is appointed, together with Professor Rauli Svento at the Oulu Business School, to the PhD committee of Heini Ahtiainen at the Universitetet i Helsinki, Finland. The topic of the...

On 20-21 May, Chinese Academy of Environmental Planing and Vista Analysis conducted a workshop on environmental risk in Anshun, Guizhou China. The workwshop was part of a three year bilateral...

Haakon Vennemo from Vista is presently guest researcher at The University of California, Berkeley. 30th of April, Haakon held a scientific seminar in applied economics and social research with...

Dr. Ma Guoxia of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP) has finalized a research mission in Norway to study economic models including environmental effects. The goal is to use Norwegian...

Vista Analysis and Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP) conducted a workshop on environmental risk management for pilot provinces (Jiangsu, Guizhou) and cities (Tongling, Anshun) in...

The seminar ”5th Forum of Environmental Risk and Damage Assessment” was conducted in Beijing 21-22 October. The seminar was held by Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP), an institute...

Oslo, 11.09.2014. Vista Analysis, CICERO and Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning has developed training material to encourage the increased use of Strategic Environmental Assessment and Cost...

The ban on purchasing sexual services has reduced demand for sex and thus contribute to reduce the extent of prostitution in Norway. The enforcement of the law, in combination with the laws against...

Vista Analysis, CICERO and the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP) carried out a workshop on environmental risk in Tongling, Anhui province, 28-29 May. The aim of the workshop was to...

Annegrete Bruvoll and Haakon Vennemo have contributed to a chapter on environmentally harmful subsidies in the Edgar Elgar book Paying the Polluter. The financial means embedded in subsidies for...

Dr. Ma Guoxia of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP), under the Ministry of Environmental Protection, arrived 1 April for a 3-month research mission at Statistics Norway and Vista...

In a study commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vista Analysis has analysed the content and precision level of the APEC list for trade liberalization in environmental goods. The...

In an article in European Union Politics, Vibeke Wøien Hansen studies voting bahaviour in the EU. Politics in the Council is Janus-faced. There is bargaining with identifiable winners and losers,...

On 27 November, Vista Analysis and CICERO met with Chinese environmental authorities in Beijing to discuss planning to prevent environmental accidents. The meeting was part of the start-up of a new...

Vista Analysis has published two baseline studies related to environmental planning and risk management in China. The first study consists of a baseline survey of literature on environmental risk...

Rasmus Reinvang from Vista Analysis gave a lecture on ““Integrated Economic and Environmental Planning: Introduction and International Experiences”, at the 2013 Annual Conference for...

The book «Valuing the Impacts of Natural Disasters and the Economic Benefits of Preventing Them» provides an overview of the effects of natural disasters and analyses the different methodologies...

In the period 28 May – 1 June, representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning (CAEP), Vista Analysis and CICERO carried out a...

Today Vista Analysis and CICERO participated in the first meeting in Beijing, in a new Sino-Norwegian cooperation project related to improving planning for cost-effective environmental risk reduction...

Vista Analysis has evaluated the performance of Nordic Development Fund (NDF) under its new climate mandate. We find that NDF has fulfilled all the main goals set by the Board in 2009. NDF is...

Michael Hoel, partner in Vista, is the winner of the 2011 edition of the EAERE European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics. More information here. Congratulations!!...

Henrik Lindhjem and Simen Pedersen in Vista Analysis has published in Review of Network Economics. The publication builds on a study the authors conducted for the Norwegian Post and...

As an input to the international negotiations on a ban on mercury Vista Analysis has for the Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency (Klif) reviewed the experiences from the phase-out of the use of...

On April 18, Haakon Vennemo of Vista Analysis was in Beijing to launch the book "Application of SEA and CBA methodologies in environmental planning", which he has edited with Zhao Xuetao and Yu Fang...

On behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Environment and Nordic Council of Ministers, Vista Analysis arranged a Nordic Conference on Green Economic Growth in Oslo 1. March 2012. The Norwegian Minister...

The Nordic Council of Ministers for the Environment, the working group on environment and economy (MEG) has commissioned Vista Analyse to prepare a synthesis report on Nordic experiences with...

Vista in Bangladesh and Pakistan Vista Analysis has recently signed an agreement with the World Bank on analyzing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and Urban Environmental Health Risks in the Province of...

On behalf of Energy Norway and the Energy and Development Project Vista Analysis and Norplan has written a compendium describing international standards for environ mental and social performance for...

In cooperation with Econ Pöyry Vista during week 36 hosts a delegation from Chinese environmental authorities who visits Norway to learn about Norwegian environmental planning. The delegation...

Henrik Lindhjem of the Norwegian Institute of Nature Research (NINA) and Vista discusses the importance of sharing monetary benefits from forests in the June 2010 Newsletter of the International...

Environmental planning in China has so far not been a great success. That is the only conclusion to draw from environmental data in the country – it has been reported over and over that emissions...