From left: Mr. Xiao Xuezhi, Deputy Director General, Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO), MEP, Mr. Liu Ning, Division Chief, International Cooperation Department, MEP, Ms. Nina Rør, Environment Counsellor, Norwegian Embassy, Mr. Wen Wurui, Director General, FECO, MEP, Ms. Luo Yu, Deputy Division Chief, Department of International Economic and Trade Relations, MOFCOM, Mr. Liu Zi, Division Chief, Pollution Control Department, MEP, Mr. Zhuang Shijian, Deputy Director, Xiamen EPB
News and events // 20/05/2010 //

A joint seminar between China and Norway on persistent organic pollutants and mercury was held in Xiamen, a coastal city in Southeast China’s Fujian Province in the last week of April.

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News and events // 04/05/2010 //

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.

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Photo: WWF-Canada / Frank Parhizgar
News and events // 24/03/2010 //

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

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Photo: Arild Lyssand
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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.

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Photo: Tommy Flakk
News and events // 27/11/2009 //

Since the first seminar held in Beijing last year the effort on engaging China on its work on prevention of humanitarian disasters has been going through a positive process. To stimulate the process even more the Norwegian MFA and the Norwegian Embassy visited and took part in meetings and a conference in China November 9.-12. . The Cooperation is a follow-up to the Report No. 9 to the Storting...

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News and events // 26/03/2010 //

A new competence building project on environmental management was launched on March 8. The initiative will enable China and Norway to work closer together on environmental issues and will function as a training and exchange program. It will also provide a framework for policy discussions and other workshops.

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Photo: Rune Bjåstad/ MFA Norway
News and events // 22/12/2009 //

The figure of our planet – a shining blue-and-white orb silhouetted against the stars, the swirl of clouds with the blinding white of polar icecaps set against ocean blue – is an image almost every human carries inside as the symbol of our common home.

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Photo: Gunnvor Berge
News and events // 10/12/2009 //

On Dec. 7th Ambassador Sæther gave an opening speech at the International Symposium demarkating the finalization of the Sino-Norwegian Cooperation on Mercury Pollution Control.

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News and events // 30/10/2009 //

The Norwegian company FramTech will transform sludge from a waste water treatment plant into energy and fertilizer in Guangxi.

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