The Circularity Gap Report Norway is an in-depth analysis of how Norway consumes raw materials—metals, fossil fuels, biomass and minerals—to fuel its societal needs. Currently, 97.6% of materials consumed each year never make it back into the economy. Norway also has one of the highest per capita consumption rates in …
A $6 cardboard box that uses solar power to cook food, sterilize water and could help 3 billion poor people cut greenhouse gases, has won a $75,000 prize for ideas to fight global warming. The "Kyoto Box," named after the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol that seeks to cut emissions of …
Five countries that created a treaty nearly four decades ago to protect polar bears through controlled hunting issued a statement that called climate change "the most important long-term threat" to the bears. The statement came in Tromso, Norway, on Thursday at the end of a three-day meeting of scientists and …
Environment: Removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere could help combat climate change. Will it really work? Preventing catastrophic climate change, most people agree, will mean reducing the level of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. That, in turn, will require the widespread use of
Norway has long tried to portray itself as one of the most environmentally responsible states. But it has consistently refused to support the moratorium against commercial whaling. This article offers a cultural explanation for this seeming contradiction, by examining the way the global antiwhaling movement framed the issue and the …
The Nordic countries have agreed on a common target to halt the decline in biodiversity by 2010. This report aims at evaluating the 2010-target by presenting indicators that can describe trends in biodiversity in the Nordic countries. The results comprise the most comprehensive documentation of land use in the Nordic …
Giant cave bears froze to death during the last Ice Age in Europe about 28,000 years ago, according to a study on Wednesday that cleared human hunters of driving them to extinction thousands of years later. The largely vegetarian bears, weighing up to a ton and bigger than modern polar …
Until recently, green investment funds were mostly a niche for individual investors. But now investing with the idea of improving the environmental actions of corporations, not just maximizing profit, is catching on among big pension funds and foundations, particularly in Europe and even in a few outposts in the United …
The population cycles of rodents at northern latitudes have puzzled people for centuries, and their impact is manifest throughout the alpine ecosystem. Climate change is known to be able to drive animal population dynamics between stable and cyclic phases and has been suggested to cause the recent changes in cyclic …
Lemming numbers are dwindling in Norway because of climate change, ending a historic cycle of population booms and busts that inspired a myth of mass suicides by the rodents, scientists said on Wednesday. Fewer lemmings -- small brown, black or yellowish mammals -- in the mountains of south Norway meant …
Norwegian company Fred. Olsen Renewables has secured 303 million pounds ($479 million) in debt financing for the construction of a new wind farm in Scotland, its adviser said on Wednesday. Highly-leveraged wind projects are expected to be hit hard by turmoil in the credit markets, but the completion of financing …
Strong economic and political motives, combined with a partly positive and partly silent NGO community have contributed greatly to the present strong commitment towards the use of CCS in Norway. Overall, the strength of this commitment has had a negative effect on efforts to reduce the GHG emissions in sectors …
Eating less meat can help rich nations to combat global warming but may not work for poor countries where people depend on livestock for survival, a leading expert said on Wednesday. UN reports show that the livestock sector accounts for about 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global …
Norway will donate US$1 billion to Brazil's Amazon protection fund through 2015, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday, to help Brazil fight deforestation. Norway, the first country to pledge money to the fund, will donate as much as US$130 million next year, the Norwegian Embassy in Brasilia said. …
A British trawler has sparked an international row after being filmed with allegedly endangered fish caught in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and then dumping the majority overboard in uk waters. Norwegian government coastguards filmed the crew of the Prolific, openly discarding more than 5,000 kg of cod …
Norway has begun seismic surveys at its biggest North Sea oil and gas field, Troll, to determine whether carbon dioxide emissions could be stored there, energy officials said on Friday. Troll is touted as one of three possible North Sea locations for storing carbon produced by gas-fired power plants in …
