By reducing the greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels, Norway has set the most ambitious target proposed by a developed nation. The country has already set a target of being carbon neutral by 2030.
According to AFP, the 40-percent target is part of the new political program presented by the leftist coalition of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
“Norway will be a pioneer country when it comes to environmental policy,” Socialist Left leader and Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen says in a statement posted on the government’s web site.
The Norwegian proposal “is the type of political will needed to move the climate talks forward to a strong deal in Copenhagen,” Greenpeace International Climate Policy Director, Martin Kaiser says in an e-mailed statement, according to Bloomberg.
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