Environment

An alliance of companies, with the suitable name ‘Powerhouse’, is currently setting up Norway’s first energy positive commercial building. Located in Trondheim, it is also the world’s northernmost energy-positive office building; the project is both ground-breaking and challenging. Read more

Climate changes are one of the greatest challenges for people all over the globe. Norway believes that the carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) is part of the answer and ultimate solution to this problem. This September, Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Mr Ola Borten Moe, visits Beijing to discuss these technologies at the high level CSLF conference. Read more

Norway has signed the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the most important global environmental agreement since the turn of the millennium. Read more

With the support of the on-going Sino-Norwegian Competence Building Project, a national training session on mercury monitoring technology was held in Beijing on December 28-29, 2010. The training was part of the bilateral cooperation on environment between China and Norway. Read more

The 4th Annual Meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) was successfully closed last Friday, after three days of intense and lively discussions on the topic of this year`s meeting: “Ecosystem Management and Green Development”. Read more

The 4th Annual General Meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) Phase IV is being held in Beijing 10. – 12 November 2010. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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

China’s environment is deteriorating at an alarming speed. The economic growth has come at a high environmental cost. Pollution to air, water and land is having a serious impact on the well-being and health of the people and on the ecosystems. The environmental problems are not only affecting China. Emissions of CO2 contribute to global warming and degradation of land and forests and air... Read more

Environmental Counsellor at the Norwegian Embassy Nina Rør held a speech at China International Forum for Environment and Development (CIFED), September 17th 2009 on Norway’s road to a green economy and what China can learn from it. Read more

The Ambassador held the opening speech at a National Conferense on Environment and Human Rights: Environmental Justice, September 23, 2009 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Read more

In his capacity as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway paid a visit to Mongolia on 3-6 November 2008. Read more

Norway is the first country to contribute up to USD one billion to a Brazilian fund to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. Reducing deforestation can provide the largest, quickest and cheapest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the short term. Read more