The Prime Minister sets new climate goals

Prime Minister Stoltenberg presented three goals and commitments for a new climate policy in his speech to The Norwegian Labour Party's national congress today. The proposal will make Norway a carbon neutral country by 2050. The Prime Minister also stressed the correlation between the fight against climate change and the fight against poverty.

 The three commitments for a new climate policy are as follows:

• We will commit ourselves to cutting emissions of greenhouse gases equivalent to 30 per cent of our emissions by 2020.
• Norway will sharpen our emission cuts obligations under the Kyoto Protocol by ten per cent in the period up to 2012.
• In the period up to 2050, Norway will undertake to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 100 per cent of our own emissions. 

 

Norway intends to implement measures at home and abroad in order to meet these goals.

Today the Government has agreed to the proposal of a 30 per cent cut in emissions by 2020.

Norway will be at the forefront of international climate efforts. Norway will take a leading role in the development of a new, binding climate agreement.