Full Coverage: Norway

19.11.2009 Guyana's groundbreaking forest conservation deal with Norway was to have been with Britain - but London showed little interest. President Jagdeo talks frankly about a project that is setting the pace for a forest agreement as part of the international climate negotiations.

19.11.2009 Guyana is set to become the first country to sign up for the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility - and become a test case for REDD, the forest forest component of the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month. Bow how good is the Guyana project? President Jagdeo, NGOs and journalists discuss the pros and cons.

19.06.2009 The governments of Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidise their unprofitable whaling industries, according to a first-time analysis of the economics of whaling released today.

16.05.2009 Dead Aid author, Dambisa Moyo, goes head-to-head with the government minister from Norway, one of the world's most generous donor countries. YouTube

11.11.2008 An impasse between Norway and the European Union has put the recovery of North Sea cod stocks at further risk.

10.09.2008 Ethical fund chiefs should review investment in British mining giant Rio Tinto after Norway excluded the multinational from its pension fund over controversial Indonesian operations, a development charity urged today.

25.07.2008 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.

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26.02.2007 Norway has withdrawn from a controversial scheme that funds consultants to advise poor countries on the privatisation of public services including water, after a damning report by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