Climate Change and the Environment

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... 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

In the years before 2015, Norway will contribute up to 1 billion US dollar to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. The size of Norway’s contribution will depend on how successful Brazil will be in reducing deforestation. This makes Norway the first contributor to the Amazon Fund. Read more

Tropical forested countries are stepping up the fight to combat climate change via a pioneering new initiative called the UN-REDD Programme announced today. Read more

The Norwegian Government will provide NOK 400 million this year for the fight against deforestation. This is the first step in Norway’s efforts to combat deforestation in developing countries, which were announced at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali last December. Read more

The Government of Norway and UNDP invite you to a CSD side event on Changing the Way We Develop: Dealing with Disasters and Climate Change Thursday 15 May 2008, 1:15–2:45 pm. Read more

The third round of United Nations climate change negotiations is now taking place in Accra, Ghana. Over 1600 participants are attending the Norwegian financed meeting.  Read more

Against the looming background of food crisis and natural disasters, the Norwegian agenda at this year’s Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) proved a pertinent and timely contribution to an arena which engage a large number multistakeholders on the way forward towards sustainable development.     Read more

"One of the most important tasks at present is to integrate climate change adaptation measures with disaster risk reduction as part of the sustainable development effort," said Ambassador Ms. Mona Elisabeth Brøther at the Commission on Sustainable Development High Level Segment: The Way Forward 14 May 2008. Read more