Ministry of Climate and Environment
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Agreement to reduce food waste
The Norwegian Government and the food industry have signed an agreement to reduce food waste in Norway by 50 percent by 2030.
More money for rainforests
The government proposes to grant 3 billion Norwegian kroner on next year's budget to help preserving tropical rainforests. This is an increase from 2017 of 118 million Norwegian kroner. - If we are to reach the targets in the Paris agreement we must stop the destruction of the rainforests, says Minister of Climate and Environment, Vidar Helgesen.
Latest news
- Colombia and Norway strengthens cooperation to reduce deforestation News story 2018-04-11
- New agreement on Environment Protection News story 2018-04-10
- Ola Elvestuen appointed as new Minister of Climate and Environment News story 2018-01-19
- China to establish a national carbon trading market News story 2017-12-20
- Brazil sees reduced payments from Norway following increased deforestation in the Amazon News story 2017-12-08
About the ministry
Documents
Regulation
Regulations on impact assessments
2017-06-21: Established by Royal Decree of 21 June 2017 pursuant to Act of 27 June 2008 no. 71 relating to the Planning and the Processing of Building Applications (the Planning and Building Act) sections 1-2, 4-2, 14-6 and 32-8a. The EEA Agreement Annex XX no. 1 letter a (directive 2014/52/EU) and no. 1 letter g (directive 2001/42/EC) Presented by the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation and the Ministry of Climate and Environment.
Report
Green Competitiveness
2016-10-28: Executive summary of report from the Norwegian Government’s Expert Committee for Green Competitiveness. The expert committee have consisted of Connie Hedegaard and Idar Kreutzer.
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