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Climate debate will still flare in Norway

NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway nurtures an environmentally conscious image, but the country still has a long way to go in tackling its own climate challenges....

Climate agreement still ‘not enough’

Norway's climate and environment minister, Ola Elvestuen, admits that it was "difficult to find a balance" among the 196 countries that finally hammered out...

Norway falls in climate rankings

Norway's Climate and Environment Minister Ola Elvestuen was worried before he traveled to the UN's climate summit in Poland this week, and he had...

Electric ‘city cars’ getting ready to roll

Scores of identical small electric cars have been neatly parked for the past week or so on property owned by state railway NSB in...

Ousted Solheim fires back at UN

Erik Solheim was back home in Oslo last weekend, and vigorously trying to defend himself after having to resign as head of the United...

Solheim resigns as UN climate chief

Erik Solheim, the former Norwegian government minister and leader of the Socialist Left party (SV), has admitted to making mistakes in how he tried...

New oil discovery ‘important’

Norway's state oil company Equinor called the discovery of more oil in the Barents Sea "important," when announcing this week that a well drilled...

Glacier recedes by a ‘dramatic’ degree

Another Norwegian glacier has shown "dramatic" signs of being threatened by climate change. The Nigard Glacier in Jostedalen lost fully 80 meters of its...

Calls rise to limit cruiseship arrivals

Increasingly fierce opposition to the numbers of large cruiseships docking in Norway in recent years is finally being heard. Officials in Bergen, Norway's busiest...

Giant skyscraper plan meets fury

Local opposition is strong to wealthy Norwegian industrialist Kjell Inge Røkke's plans to build a skyscraper at Fornebu in Bærum, west of Oslo. Residents...
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