Students from American University explore Arctic Norway

9/3/2009 //

Alex Thorp and Noah Chutz were awarded a trip to Norway as the winners of an essay contest sponsored by AU and the Royal Norwegian Embassy. Read their blog here.

Article on Norwegian Gender Equality in Harvard Business Review

9/3/2009 //

How Have Women Changed Norway's Boardrooms? Asks Kate Sweetman in Harvard Business Review.

Yehuda Bauer awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit

9/3/2009 //

Professor Yehuda Bauer, Israel ,was awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by His Majesty King Harald the Fifth during his recent visit to Oslo in connection with the meeting of the Holocaust Task Force (ITF) under Norwegian chairmanship.

Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute visits San Francisco for Nobel Days

The Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute for the Peace Prize in Oslo, Mr. Geir Lundestad, visits San Francisco September 19 - 20 in connection with the Nobel Exhibition. Mr. Lundestad will give presentations at the Stanford University Nobel Day September 19 and at the Commonwealth Club September 20.

Carbon capture and storage – a part of the solution

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will be hosting the High-Level Conference on Climate Change and Technology in Bergen on May 27-28, 2009. The agenda will focus on carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that could prove crucial if the world is to achieve necessary cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions.

Conditions for the return of Mullah Krekar to Iraq remain unchanged

9/3/2009 //

Observations by the Norwegian Government in respect of the programme “The Wanted” on NBC.

Foreign Minister Støre visits Iraq: Norway establishes embassy office in Baghdad

9/3/2009 //

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is visiting Baghdad on Monday June 29. He will have meetings with Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hosiyar Zebari, Minister for Human Rights Wijdan Michel Salim and representatives of NGOs and the UN. “I have hoped to be able to visit Iraq for quite some time, and I am pleased the opportunity has now come,” said Foreign Minister Støre.

Bill Gates in Oslo: Norway has become our best partner

9/3/2009 //

Norway is cooperating with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide the world’s children with life-saving vaccinations.

“Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson” writes the New York Times

The New York Times writes about Norway’s response to the financial crisis and the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, ability to buck the tide.

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