Tag: environment

Wildlife suffers as Svalbard melts

Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has experienced the sharpest rise in average temperatures in all of Europe, according to a new climate study set to...

Pension manager pulls out of coal

Norway's largest manager of pension funds, KLP, has decided to sell off all its investments in coal companies. KLP executives will instead invest half-a-billion kroner...

Statoil rolls out huge new oil field

NEWS ANALYSIS: The timing was ironic at best: Just as a new wave of climate concerns was literally washing over Norway this week, state oil...

Reaction flies over mock forecast

Norway's state meteorologists prepared a mock weather forecast for a day in December 2050 and reaction to it has been swift. "We didn't mean to...

Majority in Parliament supports EU climate cuts

Even some of the most anti-EU parties in Norway were praising EU leaders on Friday for agreeing to cut carbon emissions by at least...

Huge new oil find as firms cut jobs

Oil company Lundin Petroleum announced a huge new oil and gas discovery  in the Barents Sea on Tuesday that renewed hopes for the oil industry...

Cuts hit economy, boost environment

The major cost- and job-cutting now going on within Norway's oil and offshore industry "will be felt throughout the entire national economy," claims one...

Quarrels arise over rain forest funding

As Norway committed more billions to help save the world's rain forests this week, Norwegian politicians quarreled over who should get the credit for initiating...

Oil players gather to tackle change

Around 60,000 people tied to or challenging the oil industry were once again meeting in Stavanger, Norway's west coast oil capital, for the Offshore...

Støre fuels new oil uncertainty

NEWS ANALYSIS: New Labour Party boss Jonas Gahr Støre has suddenly emerged as the new ray of hope for the environmental movement and a...
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