Norway’s Seventh National Communication
Under the Framework Convention on Climate Change
This report is Norway’s seventh national communication on national circumstances, policies and measures related to climate change under the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/52d65a62e2474bafa21f4476380cffda/t-1563e.pdf
The previous national communications were submitted in 1994, 1997, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 respectively. The latest National Inventory Report (NIR) for greenhouse gases was submitted in April 2017. Norway ratified the UNFCCC on 9 July 1993. Norway ratified the Kyoto Protocol on 30 May 2002 and became a Party when the Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005, and ratified the Doha amendment in June 2014. In addition, Norway ratified the Paris Agreement on 20 June 2016.
1.3.1 Introduction
Norway’s climate policy is based on the objective of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. The scientific understanding of the greenhouse effect set out in the reports from IPCC is an important factor in developing climate policy. Thus, the policies and measures reported are seen as modifying long-term trends in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals. Climate change and emissions of greenhouse gases have featured on the Norwegian policy agenda since the late 1980s. Today, Norway has a comprehensive set of measures covering almost all emissions of greenhouse gases as well as removals. Norway overachieved the commitment for 2008-2012 under the Kyoto Protocol by about 13 per cent and implements its commitments for 2013-2020, having ratified the Doha amendment 12 June 2014.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Norways Meteorological Institute:
Over the last 100-150 years, human influence has also become noticeable on a global scale. Humans affect the climate in many ways, but the dominant global effect is the warming caused by emissions of so-called "greenhouse gases". The concentration of these gases increases in the atmosphere, and initially leads to reduced net energy emissions from the lower and middle layers of the atmosphere, and therefore the heating of these layers. The heating causes increased radiation, so that a new radiation balance can occur.
Norways national oil company, equinor (former Statoil):
“The impact of climate change is becoming more severe and noticeable: ice caps are melting, water is becoming scarce in some places, many fish and animal species face extinction, and heat waves are becoming the norm. Though that is bad enough, many scientists think the worst is yet to come, with more extreme weather and the UN warning that the world’s food supply is at considerable risk”.
At Statoil we believe that you can put a price on carbon. In fact we have to because it is one of the most effective ways to combat climate change.
Carbon Pricing - What is the cost of carbon? - equinor.com
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The Bjerknes Centre is a collaboration on climate research, between the University of Bergen, Uni Research, the Institute of Marine Research, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.
Norway's leading institute for climate research - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo (CICERO)