“This is a victory for international humanitarian law,” said Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre after the Convention on Cluster Munitions was signed in Oslo on 3 December. + More

The Norwegian Government has ambitious goals for carbon capture and storage (CCS), and the work to reach these goals will continue as planned in 2009. + More

Following a recent observation of a foreign vessel discarding large quantities of fish caught within the Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone, an act which is prohibited by law in Norway, the Government will now continue to push for an EU discard ban. + More

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will host the signing of the Convention on Cluster Munitions by states from all over the world in Oslo from 3 to 4 December. + More

Norway leads the world in closing the gender gap between men and women, according to the overall ranking in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2008. + More