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Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre – New Year Speech 2022

Category: Business News

Excerpt from Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre’s New Year speech: I am deeply impressed by how all of you, the people of Norway, have coped with the pandemic despite all these challenges. We have fought COVID-19 by standing together, and by following the recommendations and rules, including those that have been most intrusive on our […]

Source: Regjeringen


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U.S., Australia, Denmark, Norway to Curb Tech Exports to Human Rights Abusers

Business

Category: Government

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The White House announced on Friday that Australia, Denmark and Norway would join it in an effort to curb technology exports to governments that use the products for repression. The White House said last week it was forming the group to address “the misuse of certain dual-use technologies that can […]

Source: Reuters


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Norway Wealth Fund Calls on Companies to act on Climate

Business

Category: Accounting / Financial

Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund will ask many of the companies in its portfolio to take more specific action on climate change, its head of governance and compliance said. Companies faced calls at the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland this month to lay out plans to achieve net zero carbon emissions to help […]

Source: Reuters


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Statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre deltar på USAs toppmøte om demokrati

Category: Business News

USA arrangerer et internasjonalt digitalt toppmøte om demokrati 9. og 10. desember. Styrking av demokratiet og menneskerettighetene, beskyttelse mot autoritær utvikling og kampen mot korrupsjon er blant temaene som blir diskutert. President Joe Biden har invitert 110 land til det digitale toppmøtet om demokrati. Biden har vært tydelig på at han vil bidra til å […]

Source: Regjeringen


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Biden Wants to Make Federal Government Carbon Neutral by 2050

Category: Business News

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it aims to buy its way to a cleaner, cooler planet, spending billions to create a federal fleet of electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings and change how the government buys electricity. The executive order President Biden signed leverages Washington’s buying power to cut the government’s carbon emissions 65 percent by the end of the decade. […]

Source: The Washington Post


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