Jessica Jewell
Position
Associate Professor
Research
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.
Publications
Article in business/trade/industry journal
Academic article
- Nacke, Lola; Vinichenko, Vadim; Cherp, Aleh et al. (2024). Compensating affected parties necessary for rapid coal phase-out but expensive if extended to major emitters. (external link)
- Kazlou, Tsimafei; Cherp, Aleh; Jewell, Jessica (2024). Feasible deployment of carbon capture and storage and the requirements of climate targets. (external link)
- Hyun, Minwoo; Cherp, Aleh; Jewell, Jessica et al. (2023). Feasibility trade-offs in decarbonising the power sector with high coal dependence: The case of Korea. (external link)
- Vinichenko, Vadim; Jewell, Jessica; Jacobsson, Johan et al. (2023). Historical diffusion of nuclear, wind and solar power in different national contexts: implications for climate mitigation pathways. (external link)
- Lægreid, Ole Martin; Cherp, Aleh; Jewell, Jessica (2023). Coal phase-out pledges follow peak coal: evidence from 60 years of growth and decline in coal power capacity worldwide. (external link)
- Suzuki, Masahiro; Jewell, Jessica; Cherp, Aleh (2023). Have climate policies accelerated energy transitions? Historical evolution of electricity mix in the G7 and the EU compared to net-zero targets. (external link)
- Vinichenko, Vadim; Vetier, Marta; Jewell, Jessica et al. (2023). Phasing out coal for 2 °C target requires worldwide replication of most ambitious national plans despite security and fairness concerns. (external link)
- Bi, Stephen L.; Bauer, Nico; Jewell, Jessica (2023). Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum. (external link)
- Ramirez Camargo, Luis; Castro, Gabriel; Gruber, Katharina et al. (2022). Pathway to a land-neutral expansion of Brazilian renewable fuel production. (external link)
- Brutschin, Elina; Cherp, Aleh; Jewell, Jessica (2021). Failing the formative phase: The global diffusion of nuclear power is limited by national markets. (external link)
- Cherp, Aleh; Vinichenko, Vadim; Tosun, Jale et al. (2021). National growth dynamics of wind and solar power compared to the growth required for global climate targets. (external link)
- Pai, Sandeep; Emmerling, Johannes; Drouet, Laurent et al. (2021). Meeting well-below 2°C target would increase energy sector jobs globally. (external link)
- Brauers, Hanna; Braunger, Isabell; Jewell, Jessica (2021). Liquefied natural gas expansion plans in Germany: The risk of gas lock-in under energy transitions. (external link)
- Vinichenko, Vadim; Cherp, Aleh; Jewell, Jessica (2021). Historical precedents and feasibility of rapid coal and gas decline required for the 1.5°C target. (external link)
- Jewell, Jessica; Emmerling, Johannes; Vinichenko, Vadim et al. (2020). Reply to: Why fossil fuel producer subsidies matter. (external link)
- Øverland, Indra; Bradshaw, Michael; Kuzemko, Caroline et al. (2020). Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions. (external link)
- Pai, Sandeep; Zerriffi, Hisham; Jewell, Jessica et al. (2020). Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs. (external link)
- Jewell, Jessica; Vetier, Marta; Garcia-Cabrera, Daniel (2019). The international technological nuclear cooperation landscape: A new dataset and network analysis. (external link)
- Jewell, Jessica; Vinichenko, Vadim; Nacke, Lola et al. (2019). Prospects for powering past coal. (external link)
- Cherp, Aleh; Vinichenko, Vadim; Jewell, Jessica et al. (2018). Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework. (external link)
- Jewell, Jessica; McCollum, David; Emmerling, Johannes et al. (2018). Limited emission reductions from fuel subsidy removal except in energy-exporting regions. (external link)
Academic literature review
- Jewell, Jessica; Cherp, Aleh (2023). The feasibility of climate action: Bridging the inside and the outside view through feasibility spaces. (external link)
- Nacke, Lola; Cherp, Aleh; Jewell, Jessica (2022). Phases of fossil fuel decline: Diagnostic framework for policy sequencing and feasible transition pathways in resource dependent regions. (external link)
- Jewell, Jessica; Cherp, Aleh (2020). On the political feasibility of climate change mitigation pathways: Is it too late to keep warming below 1.5° C?. (external link)