Kingdom of Norway
Minister Harald Dovland
Norway is an Annex I Party to the Kyoto Protocol, having ratified the accord on May 30, 2002. Harald Dovland is the Norwegian Minister of Environment. The following is excerpted from Mr. Dovland’s address to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Seminar of Governmental Experts in Bonn, Germany, on May 16, 2005.Norway started to introduce specific policies to control emissions of greenhouse gases [GHG] in the early 1990s. The first measure to directly address GHG emissions was a tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions introduced already in 1991. This tax is still in force and today it covers…
