Climate Change and the Environment
The Prime Minister of Norway, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, co-chaired the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing 12-13 July 2010, alongside the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Mr. Meles Zenawi. Read more
Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will lead the UN High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing in developing countries. He succeeds former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the group shall mobilise the resources promised at the Copenhagen Climate Summit last December. Read more
On May 27 in Oslo, heads of state and government, ministers and other representatives of some 50 countries concluded an agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation. Around NOK 25 billion has been pledged for the period 2010–2012 for measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. Read more
Norway and Indonesia agreed today to enter into a partnership to support Indonesia’s efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests and peat lands. Indonesia will take immediate and decisive action to reduce its forest and peat related greenhouse gas emissions. Norway will support those efforts with USD 1 billion over the next few years. Read more
Minister of the Environment and International Development, Mr. Erik Solheim, was praised after a frank and fruitful dialogue with representatives from indigenous groups during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Many indigenous people are suspicious of the global forest initiative – REDD – and so the opportunity to meet the Norwegian minister was welcomed. Read more
Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has become member of the UN High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing. The group was recently appointed by the UN Secretary-General, to mobilise the financing promised for efforts against climate change during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December. Read more
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said in Oslo today that he will initiate a climate group consisting of the most important forest countries. Read more
Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and former US Vice President Al Gore presented a report at the climate summit in Copenhagen, which showed that snow and ice are melting at an alarming rate. Read more
The United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP15) takes place in Copenhagen 7 – 18 December, 2009. The following is a summary of Norway's positions on climate change going into the high-level conference. Read more
Norway will be the largest contributor to the World Bank’s new trust fund to help developing countries build up expertise on carbon capture and storage (CCS). Read more
Meeting in New York on 23 September, heads of state and government from all over the world underlined the need for an agreement to reduce deforestation in developing countries. Read more
Moving ahead with REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is a UN Secretary-General High Level Event on Wednesday September 23rd. Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who launched UN REDD last year, will take part. Read more
Speaking from the Arctic rim on September 1, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Norway’s Environment Minister Erik Solheim sent out an urgent plea to world leaders to take action to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. Read more
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will host the High-level Event on Climate Change for Heads of State and Government. Norway will be represented by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Read more
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon discussed efforts to combat climate change with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo on Monday before heading to the Svalbard archipelago to see first-hand the effects of climate change on the Arctic. Read more
The Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy received today StatoilHydro’s Master Plan for full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) at Mongstad. The emission permit for the combined heat and power plant (CHP) at Mongstad is conditioned on that StatoilHydro presents a plan of this type. According to StatoilHydro, the plan confirms the feasibility of establishing fu... Read more
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg met with Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo have agreed to establish a partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation. Read more
In the permafrost in the mountains of Svalbard Norway is establising the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It is designed to store duplicates of seeds from seed collections around the globe. If seeds are lost, e.g. as a result of natural disasters, war or simply a lack of resources, the seed collections may be reestablished using seeds from Svalbard. Read more
Norway and the EU are joining forces to boost investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in developing countries. Read more
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Somare and Norway’s Prime Minister Stoltenberg met in Oslo Thursday. The two prime ministers talked about the importance of fighting deforestation and on the need for developing and developed countries to cooperate to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Read more