http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/578/ en_GB_uk Norway http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83822 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 http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81848 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 http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81524 Sweden tops a new Humanitarian Response Index, followed by Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the European Commission. From: Dara International http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/150116/1/ 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/77283 Norway has withdrawn from a controversial scheme that funds consultants to advise poor countries on the privatisation of public services including water, after a damning report by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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75384 from WattHead blog: Norway is implementing a long-term national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50-80 percent. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75068 from Green Car Congress: Carbon dioxide from a new CHP project will be injected back into oilfield aquifers. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/74871 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72935 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 http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72823 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 http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/132770/1/ 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/70693 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. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/125330/1/ 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. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/116980/1/ 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. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/116213/1/ 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.