Kristian Steensen Nielsen
Kristian Steensen Nielsen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Society and Communication at CBS. His research focuses on the role of behavioral changes in mitigating climate change and preserving biodiversity. He is particularly interested in identifying effective and scalable initiatives to change behavior, understanding how individual behavioral changes can contribute to limiting climate change, and in understanding how to increase the feasibility of transformative climate initiatives. His research is rooted in environmental psychology and behavioral science, with an interdisciplinary perspective.
Anders Bjørn
Anders Bjørn is an environmental engineer and assistant professor at Quantitative Sustainability Assessment (QSA) section of DTU Sustain. His research is primarily concerned with the development and assessment of methods to measure the environmental impacts of companies and individual products against planetary boundaries. Anders is also working on translating different ethical principles for allocating scarce resources into environmental impact allowances for companies and other societal actors. Anders has published widely in the field of environmental assessment of products and companies, as well as sustainable transitions at the societal level.
Anders Blok
Anders Blok is a professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen. His recent research includes the climate initiatives of major cities in Europe and East Asia as expressions of new cosmopolitan communities in the risk society. He also researches the role of civil society in urban green transitions, including in relation to urban gardening and biodiversity efforts. He has published widely in the fields of environmental and climate sociology, science and technology studies (STS), urban studies, and social theory, and is the author (with Torben Elgaard Jensen) of Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World (Hans Reitzel, 2009).
Jens Friis Lund
Jens Friis Lund is a professor of political ecology at the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen. His research has primarily focused on natural resource management in developing countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, and Ghana, including the role of forests in mitigating climate change. In addition, he is increasingly engaged with the political economy of climate transitions and negative emission technologies. He has published widely in the fields of environmental governance, political ecology, and development studies.
Joachim Peter Tilsted
Joachim Peter Tilsted is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, at the Department of Food and Resource Economics. His research focuses on the political and economic aspects of the green transition, with a particular emphasis on heavy industry. He has also worked on the concept of “green growth” as well as the political significance of economic models. Joachim holds a degree in environmental and development economics (cand.oecon.agro) from the University of Copenhagen.
Line Marie Thorsen
Line Marie Thorsen is Deputy Center Director and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE), at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Line’s research is grounded in the environmental humanities, with a focus on the intersection of agricultural and landscape culture, art, and creative processes as part of the green transition.
Secretariat
Ece Muslu- student assistant
Ece is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in environmental and food economics at the University of Copenhagen. She is interested in development, environmental, and well-being economics.
Katrine Østerby- former student assistant
Student assistant for the Council on Climate and Green Transition from May 2022 to April 2024.
Mette Susgaard- former student assistant
Student assistant for the Council on Climate and Green Transition from April 2021 to May 2022.
Morten Friis – former student assistant
Student assistant for the Council on Climate and Green Transition from June 2019 to April 2021.
Former members
Signe Brieghel
Member of the Climate and Transition Council from June 2023 until December 2025.
Thilde Bech Bruun
Member of the Climate and Transition Council from May 2022 until July 2023.
Asker Voldsgaard
Member of the Climate and Transition Council from June 2020 until March 2023.
Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen
Member of tthe Climate and Transition Council from May 2022 until July 2023.
Charlotte Louise Jensen
Member of the Climate and Transition Council until march 2022.