Tag: climate

Quarreling spikes as election looms

NEWS ANALYSIS: With less than a week to go before important local elections are held all over Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg doesn't only...

Brazilian free trade deal ignites fury

The timing could hardly have been worse, or even more internationally and politically embarrassing for the Norwegian government: As fires raged in the Amazon,...

Solheim leaves SV for the Greens

Norway's Greens Party doesn't seem to mind that Erik Solheim, their newest high-profile member, lost his job as head of the UN's environmental program...

Road tolls can cost the state dearly

Finance Minister Siv Jensen's Progress Party reignited the Norwegian government's internal battle over bompenger (road tolls) on Sunday. The ongoing battle is still threatening to...

Conflict erupts over rain forest funding

Ten years of funding rain forest preservation efforts in the Amazon, as a means of battling climate change, has suddenly left Norwegian officials disappointed...

Tempers rise over Greens’ ‘socialism’

Morning radio listeners got an earfull on Thursday, when the ever-provocative deputy leader of Norway's conservative Progress Party, Sylvi Listhaug, accused the Greens Party...

Electric plane crashed into lake

Norway's much-hyped and only electric aircraft lost power while making the latest in a round of promotional flights on Wednesday. At the helm was...

Oslo ‘to be emissions-free by 2030’

Norway's municipal election campaign is underway, with incumbent politicians in Oslo promising that they'll make the Norwegian capital emissions-free by 2030. Critics question whether...

More floods and slides in the forecast

Norwegian researchers and meteorologists are once again warning of more torrential rain, floods and landslides in the years to come. Extreme weather will be...

‘Food production must be changed’

Norwegians must join the rest of the world in eating less meat, and stop developing untouched natural areas, declared Norway's government minister in charge...
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