Topic: Nordic Countries

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway backed Indonesia's drive to slow deforestation on Thursday under a $1 billion deal with Oslo even though Jakarta said it faced a "maze" of reforms and lacks maps to pin down exact conservation areas."Any nation can do more. ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's freshly inked two-year forest moratorium was breached on its first day as a plantation company burned carbon-rich peatlands on Borneo island, an investigation by an environmental group said.Indonesia revealed a long list of exemptions to its much-delayed two-year ...

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt told Brazilian business leaders Wednesday that there should be a global "green economy" with sustainable growth.Reinfeldt, who on Tuesday discussed ethanol production, environmental concerns and technological cooperation with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, spoke Wednesday to the Federation ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway urged rich nations on Thursday to take risks and pay to slow deforestation in poor countries, saying there would hardly be a tree left in Congo if donors first wait for corruption to be eradicated.Environment Minister Erik Solheim ...

Indonesia has chosen its Borneo island to conduct a pilot project aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, as part of a deal with Norway, an official said Thursday.Norway agreed in May to contribute up to a billion dollars to help ...

In the last few years many worthy souls have been scuttling about the world's TV and Radio studios telling anyone who would listen that there simply had to be a new agreement. Copenhagen last year was described as a vital chance to ...

Pancakes are the ultimate in frugal comfort food, taking very little fuel or time to prepare (a factor in Iceland, which was deforested quickly after its settlement), and often created from leftover ingredients like oatmeal, rice porridge, or rice pudding. Rice porridge ...

Negotiations under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Europe began in Geneva in March with the aim of establishing a protocol for the reduction of sulfur-dioxide emissions. Talks resumed in September, but Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, and Spain proposed measures ...

The Stockholm Declaration (1972) and the Rio Declaration (1992), which was issued by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, enjoined states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction do not cause environmental damage to other states or areas. Supervisory and ...

In a ruling published on Dec. 17, 2003, Denmark's Science Ministry dismissed criticisms that the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty had made of environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg. The ministry found that the committee had presented no evidence for its allegations of bias and ...