Last updated: 03/09/2009 //

India and future efforts to fight climate change was on the agenda as stakeholders met at TERI - The Energy Research Institute last week. As Indian and Norwegian researchers listened, Chargé d’Affaires  Lasse Bjørn Johannessen used the opportunity to highlight future challenges.

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Indigenous peoples and people living in close contact with nature depend on natural resources. These people often inhabit marginal areas in diverse, but fragile ecosystems and are directly affected by climate change.

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Climate change and poverty are the two biggest challenges the world is facing. Assisting poor countries adapting to climate change is a key component of Norway’s climate change policy. All countries will be affected by climate change. Yet the most vulnerable - the poorest countries and peoples - that will be affected the earliest and the most. It is the poor whose access to clean water and food...

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The Norwegian Embassy supports the DSDS Summit for the fourth consecutive year. This reflects the Norwegian Government’s commitment to promoting the environmental agenda in general, and the climate change in special. This year the Embassy and TERI will arrange a special event during the DSDS. The theme for the seminar will be “Renewable energy and CDM in India: Opportunities offered by Norway”....

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Being an energy rich nation with a strong focus on challenges of climate change, Norway aims to make carbon capture and storage (CCS) a reality. Norway has four carbon capture and storage projects; Sleipner, Snøhvit, Mongstad and Kårstø. 

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Realizing the great importance of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for the Indian industry, FICCI, with assistance from Norwegian Embassy, New Delhi is providing the necessary technical consultancy through trained professionals for preparing industries to identify potential CDM projects and facilitating them in developing the project as well as helping them in getting approval from Indian...

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