After the meeting he also participated in a panel discussion on “Green Futures” together with the Spanish Prime Minister José Zapatero and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband.
In his intervention Mr Stoltenberg focused on three issues. First of all the importance of a wide climate agreement which sets emission targets for all major emission countries. Secondly a fair burden sharing with redistribution where rich countries pay for emission cuts in poor countries and finally an international climate agreement which includes measures to reduce deforestation in developing countries, as emission from deforestation accounts for nearly 20% of the world's collective climate emissions.
Stoltenberg's coalition government was re-elected on 14 September and the Norwegian PM then said: “We have received the voters’ confidence to govern for another four years. With a red-green majority in Parliament we intend to renew and intensify our policy. We shall respect the confidence shown to us”.
The Prime Minister expressed his gratitude to party leaders Liv Signe Navarsete of the Centre Party and Kristin Halvorsen of the Socialist Left Party, for their cooperation during the last four years and for their joint efforts during the election campaign for a continued cooperation in government.
”We will now sit down to form an ambitious policy for the coming four years, where safe employment, better schools and focus on care of the elderly and climate will be central areas”, Stoltenberg said.
In the elections the Labour Party, the Centre Party and the Socialist Left Party won a total of 86 seats in Parliament (Storting), while the non-socialist parties secured 83 of the 169 seats. The last Norwegian government to keep its majority after an election was Per Borten’s coalition government in 1969.