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OECD Environmental Performance Review of Norway

On Friday 22 April, OECD launches the Environmental Performance Review of Norway 2022 and hands over their recommendations for Norwegian authorities on the way forward.

UNEA: Agreement in Nairobi on global deal against plastic pollution

World leaders agreed on a new international, binding agreement on plastic pollution through a full lifecycle approach to be finalised by 2024. The decision marks a historical achievement in the global cooperation against plastic pollution.

Report No. 37 to the Storting (2008-2009) - Integrated Management of the Marine Environment of the Norwegian Sea

Report No. 37 (2008 – 2009) to the Storting

NOU 2013: 10 - Natural benefits – on the values of ecosystem services

Summary and recommendations.

Carbon Neutral Norway

Norwegian Carbon Credit Procurement Program

Norway - Candidate to The World Heritage Comittee 2017

Culture-nature, integrated approach, generations, future, community, cooperation, pride, sustainability, credibility

Meld. St. 10 (2010–2011) - First update of the Integrated Management Plan for the Marine Environment of the Barents Sea–Lofoten Area

Meld. St. 10 (2010–2011) Report to the Storting (white paper)

NOU 2010: 10 Adapting to a changing climate -

Norway’s vulnerability and the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Department for Climate Change

The department is responsible for national policy development and international work in the field of climate change. It is also responsible for local air quality and bilateral climate and environmental cooperation.

Director General Ingvild Sæverud

Department for Cultural Environment and Polar Affairs

The department works with strategy and policy development for the conservation and sustainable use of the cultural environment and for climate and environment in the polar and northern regions. The department has agency management responsibility for

Director General Frode Tarjei Selman

Department for Nature Management

The department's main responsibility is to develop policies to safeguard biodiversity on land and in the sea, and to ensure holistic and sustainable management of nature through use, conservation and recreation. The department is also responsible

Director General Lene Lyngby

The Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund

The funds resources will be uses to initiate and stimulate good projects and initiatives with the purpose of looking after the lofty environmental goals which are set for Svalbard.

Web page: https://www.miljovernfondet.no/en/

Grants from the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative

Information about grants from the Norwegian International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) and how you can apply.

Biodiversity

The environment will be managed in a way that maintains the diversity of habitats and landscape types and ensures that there are viable populations of naturally-occurring species: this will ensure that biological diversity can continue to evolve.

Climate and environment

It is the Ministry of Climate and Environment that has chief responsibility for the Government’s environmental policy. Environmental policy cuts across ministerial boundaries and involves issues that are the responsibility of several different

The Antarctic

The Antarctic contains some of the last vast undisturbed areas of nature in the world. Plants, animals, ecosystems and cultural heritage in the Antarctic face an unrelenting growing pressure from traffic, environmental toxins and climate change. The

Subordinate agencies