Commodifying Carbon: The History, politics and technologies of Net Zero
Professor Kristin Asdal, University of Oslo, will give a seminar on her project Commodifying Carbon: The History, politics and technologies of Net Zero
Time: Mon 2026-11-09 13.15 - 15.00
Location: Large Seminar Room, Teknikringen 74D, 5th Floor, KTH Campus
Kristin Asdal is professor of STS at the Universty of Oslo and her research focuses on the sociology of knowledge across economics and natural science and on how scientific expertise is partaking in democracy. Her key competence is on the politics of the environment, broadly conceived, and she has executed a series of comprehensive empirical studies on the politics, economy and history of the environment and the bioeconomy. She also investigates democratic procedures as versions of knowledge practices.
Abstract to be posted here in advance of the seminar.