page_title: Climate change in Norway
section_title: Political
hierarchical_section_title: Climate change in Norway / Discourse on global warming / Political
caption_attribution_description: English: Highlights Norway's ongoing commitments to international agreements in order to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius.
context_page_description: Global warming in Norway discusses global warming issues in Norway.
context_section_description: The Norwegian government is attempting to tackle global warming directly through an array of national and international plans and policies. Norway has long pledged to play a leading role in negotiations towards a more ambitious international climate change agreement, using their starting point as limiting the average rise in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (Figure 4). However, Norway is one of the largest exporters of carbon in traded fuels. On a per capita basis, Norway exports of carbon through traded fuels are five times larger than such exports from any other country in the World. Norway's effective contribution to global warming is a lot greater than emissions that are due to its domestic consumption only.
  This became apparent when almost all countries in the world first became parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992. Despite global emissions rising since then, Norway's long-term goal has remained to become a carbon neutral country by 2050 (with a conditional target of 2030) through the assistance of the EU emissions trading market, international cooperation on emissions reductions, emissions trading and project-based cooperation. This sentiment has been reflected through their ongoing commitments in international agreements as depicted below. However, this has not come without scrutiny as the country is often questioned for buying itself out of burdensome domestic environmental obligations by purchasing international CO2 quotas and offsetting emissions through the EU trading scheme (despite not being a member of the EU).
  There seems to be two stories, one about Norway wanting to be a world leader in global climate change and environmental issues whilst the other tends to favour Norway's oil and gas reserves, claiming that its necessary to extract more oil and gas because of high demand and in order to help the poor who in some parts of the world have no access to energy. This duality therefore sends a very polarised message to the Norwegian public and may be part of the reason why there is a lack of engagement or enthusiasm currently observed around the issue of climate change.
  Developed nations like Norway have been instructed to take the lead in reducing their emissions and investing heavily in climate commitments as part of its partnership schemes with developing nations - particularly focusing on clean, renewable energy resources, climate change mitigation/adaptation and food security, primarily funded through the Norwegian Clean Energy for Development initiative launched in 2007 and the International Energy and Climate Change Initiative Energy+ (launched in 2011). For example, in 2010 Norway supported household installation of 80,000 solar home systems in Nepal.
caption: Figure 4. Highlights Norway's ongoing commitments to international climate change agreements. Norway ratified the Kyoto Protocol (CP1) on 30 May 2002 and became a Party when the Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005. Furthermore, it ratified the Doha Amendments and second period (CP2) of the Kyoto Protocol on 12 June 2014. Following its willingness to be associated with the non-binding Copenhagen Accord on 25 January, Norway became the first developed nation to ratify the Paris Agreement on 20 June 2016 with a target of a 40% by 2030 on 1990 levels[57][57]
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