Eco-Progress in Bale Mountains

Institutional cooperation between the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) and the Ethiopian Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) for the development of Ethiopian hydropower is bearing fruit. A NVE delegation recently visited Addis Ababa to conduct a Capacity Building workshop with MoWR.

Representatives from The Dryland Coordination Group (DCG), a capacity building and knowledge based network for improved food security in the drylands of Africa and with its foundation in Norway, recently visited the embassy

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will be hosting the High-Level Conference on Climate Change and Technology in Bergen on 27-28 May 2009. The agenda will focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that could prove crucial if the world is to achieve necessary cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions.

By reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions and offsetting the remaining by purchasing emission reductions world-wide, Norway now aims at becoming carbon neutral by 2030. Norway intends to make full use of the carbon markets to secure effective and affordable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute to the development of this market.