Environment

Although there are those who have warned that increased activity and unresolved boundaries in the Arctic would raise tensions, developments in the region are bearing witness to just the opposite. Read more

The world’s largest wind turbine is to be built in Norway. Innovative technology will make the production of renewable energy far more efficient. Read more

At 8:30 pm 27 March 2010 Norway will plunge into darkness, joining in the world’s largest visual climate change campaign. Read more

The fjords of Norway have once again been crowned the world’s top travel destination in the annual survey of National Geographic Travelers panellists. Read more

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will be hosting the High-Level Conference on Climate Change and Technology in Bergen on 27-28 May 2009. The agenda will focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that could prove crucial if the world is to achieve necessary cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions. Read more

Nobel Laureate Al Gore and Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre will host a conference on melting ice in Tromsø. The aim is to produce a joint statement that can provide input for the climate conference in Copenhagen. Read more

A historical moment took place 26th of September when the Norwegian Prime Minister opened the Global Seed Vault on Svalbard. The facility will house seed samples of food plants from absolutely the entire world, thus providing an additional safety net for the world’s food supply. Read more

Norway’s glacier museum launched its new climate change center by putting US Vice President Walter M. Mondale in a water pool and unplug it. Read more

Energy efficient buildings in China, environmental street lighting in India and solar cell panels in Brazil. These are all projects embraced by Norway through Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). Read more

The Norwegian government launches a plan for  bold cuts in greenhouse gas emissions both in Norway and abroad. Read more

Twenty years after launching Our Common Future, Norway’s former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland has been appointed a UN Special Envoy for Climate Change. Read more

Norway is to cooperate with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on an initiative to rescue 95% of the biological diversity of the world’s food crops. In Norway, the construction of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is already under way. This will be used to store material from national and international gene banks. Read more

On 22 – 23 February, more than 45 states, UN bodies and agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Cluster Munitions Coalition, will come together in Oslo to discuss realistic and effective measures to for an international ban on cluster munitions that causes unacceptable human suffering. The Conference will be opened by Norway's Foreign Minister, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støre. Watch... Read more

Due to its vast natural resources, the importance of the High North stretches far beyond Norway’s borders. A recent article in Newsweek International highlights the strategic importance of Norway and the High North as a future European gas province. Read more

The Norwegian Government will purchase CO2 emission quotas to offset the pollution caused by international air travel by government employees. The hope is that others will follow Norway’s example and that this will reduce total greenhouse gas emissions. Read more

Ten years after the establishment of the Arctic Council, it is now Norway’s turn to take up the baton. Climate change and sustainable use of the natural resources in the High North will be priority issues for the Norwegian chairmanship. Read more