Full Coverage: Norway

09.06.2008 From biomass plants to burying carbon dioxide, Norwegian environmental group Bellona has listed a slew of methods it said would enable an 85 percent reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
From: Terra Daily

29.12.2007 Companies in Norway have until Monday to increase the proportion of women on their boards to 40 per cent or face the prospect of being shut down.
From Daily Telegraph

30.11.2007 Sweden tops a new Humanitarian Response Index, followed by Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the European Commission.
From: Dara International

10.06.2007 WASHINGTON, Jun 8 (OneWorld) - The first study to rank countries around the world according to their peacefulness and identify the drivers that create and sustain peace was released here last week.

26.02.2007 Norway has withdrawn from a controversial scheme that funds consultants to advise poor countries on the privatisation of public services including water, after a damning report by two NGOs.

04.11.2006 from WattHead blog:
Norway is implementing a long-term national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50-80 percent.

20.10.2006 from Green Car Congress:
Carbon dioxide from a new CHP project will be injected back into oilfield aquifers.

05.10.2006 Anti-debt campaigners are hailing as groundbreaking Monday's decision by Norway to cancel $80 million in debt owed by five poor nations after it determined that the loans were not granted in a good faith effort to promote development.

19.06.2006 Pro-whaling countries finally obtained a narrow majority in favour of increased whaling and against conservation at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission.
* Reports from the Greenpeace team

13.06.2006 The failure of Norwegian peace brokers to get representatives of Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan government to sit across a table after their arrival in Oslo appears to have served as the cue for renewed violence and brutality.
* OneWorld Guide to Sri Lanka

15.05.2006 The Supreme Court of India has issued notice to the Indian government to prevent entry of "SS Norway" in its present condition, until the toxic ship is in compliance with the Supreme Court's October 2003 order regarding ship breaking. This was issued in response to an application filed by Ban Asbestos Network of (BANI), a member of the NGO Platform on ship breaking, that seeks to stop the ship's entry in India.

01.03.2006 Senegal and Norway will play at Dakar's Leopold Sedar Senghor stadium today in an international soccer "friendly" designed to help raise awareness about the lives of children in Africa.

10.01.2006 The 500 companies listed on Norway's stock exchange face being shut down unless they install women on their boards over the next two years in a radical initiative imposed by a government determined to help women break through the ‘glass ceiling’, say Gwladys Fouché in Oslo and Jill Treanor in The Guardian.

12.08.2005 The Memory of the World Programme will be the theme of the "UNESCO Open Forum" at the World Library and Information Congress that the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) organises from 14 to 18 August in Norway’s capital Oslo.

01.08.2005 The Memory of the World Programme will be the theme of the "UNESCO Open Forum" at the World Library and Information Congress that International Federation of Library Associations and institutions (IFLA) organises from 14 to 18 August in Norway’s capital Oslo.

04.08.2004 At its 2004 summit in Istanbul, Turkey, leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) adopted a policy of “zero tolerance” for military personnel trafficking in persons. The United States and Norway proposed the initiative and it was approved by all 46 members of the Organization.

02.06.2003 A recent survey reveals only 38 percent of Sri Lankans appreciate the efforts of chief facilitator, Norway in Sri Lanka's ongoing peace process, adding to the anti-Norway political upsurge sweeping the country.

25.11.2002 For the first time in more than a decade, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe held talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel negotiator Anton Balasingham. The talks were held in Norway.

04.11.2002 The final global event of the United Nations International Year of Mountains ended last week with a Norwegian government offer to help clean up hazardous nuclear waste dumps in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

12.09.2002 A lead contractor in Uganda's Bujagali dam, Norwegian company Veidekke, has announced it is pulling out of the US$550 million project and relocating elsewhere, a Canadian monitoring group said yesterday.