NORWAY TO CUT GREENHOUSE GASES, MEET KYOTO GOAL - PM
02.15.07 - Leído 94 veces. Enviar esta notaNorway will reach its Kyoto target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2012 and a considerable share will be achieved by domestic curbs rather than by buying emissions rights abroad, its prime minister said on Wednesday
OSLO, Norway; February 15, 2007.- Emissions by Norway, the world’s third largest exporter of oil, were 10.3 percent above 1990 levels in 2004 compared with a pledge under the United Nations’ Kyoto Protocol of no more than a 1 percent rise by 2008-12.
“We will meet the Kyoto target, that’s 100 percent certain,” Jens Stoltenberg told parliament during question time. “We will take a considerable share (of restraints) domestically.”
Norway has the options of cutting emissions at home, with measures such as energy saving incentives or more taxes on energy use, or by buying emissions quotas under Kyoto.
Stoltenberg declined to spell out how much the domestic share would be.
Norway’s greenhouse gas emissions totalled 54.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2004, up from 49.8 million in 1990. Total oil and gas output — a main source of emissions in Norway — has almost doubled since 1990.
Stoltenberg declined to set a long-term goal for cutting emissions but said that Norway was a leading country in the fight against climate change, with targets including emissions-free gas-fired power plants.
Environment Minister Helene Bjoernoy was slapped down by cabinet colleagues last month when she said she “guaranteed” that non-EU Norway would be as ambitious as the European Union in its long-term targets.
Last month the EU Commission proposed unilateral cuts of 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and said the EU should be willing to cut as much as 30 percent if other countries agreed.
Bjoernoy had also said that 30 percent was a good starting point for negotiations.
(Reuters)
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