Stoltenberg: “Era of free polluting should be over”
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Published under: Stoltenberg's 2nd Government
Publisher: Office of the Prime Minister
Press release | Date: 26/08/2008
“My hope is that in December next year the following clear message will be sent from the climate conference in Copenhagen to the business world, consumers and entrepreneurs all over the world: “The era of free polluting is over!””, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) 2008 in Stavanger today.
“My hope is that in December next year the following clear message will be sent from the climate conference in Copenhagen to the business world, consumers and entrepreneurs all over the world: “The era of free polluting is over!””, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) 2008 in Stavanger today.
Stoltenberg said the demanding task now is to combine an increase in the global supply of energy with a decrease in the global emissions of greenhouse gases, in order to reduce poverty and protect the climate.
The Prime Minister said Norway can contribute by substituting coal by gas, by efficiency in energy export and by carbon capture and storage.
Read the Prime Minister's speech here.