{"id":32786,"date":"2023-02-06T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/norway-must-protect-norway-more-news-vestland\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T16:16:17","slug":"norway-must-protect-norway-more-news-vestland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/norway-must-protect-norway-more-news-vestland\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway must protect Norway more – news Vestland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The government announced today that they are starting work on a new national nature plan. The background is the UN’s nature agreement, which was signed in Montreal before Christmas. According to the government, the agreement makes it urgent to “update management and combat the causes of degradation and weathering of the ecosystem”. – A new notification to the Storting will set the direction for further efforts for nature, says Climate and Environment Minister Espen Barth Eide (Ap). This is what the government says about the new plan Nature gives us clean air, clean water, stable access to food, protection against the consequences of climate change and natural carbon storage. In addition, it gives us experiences that are important for health and well-being. Having a diversity of species and genetic variants is nature’s way of tolerating change. We must ensure that the use of nature takes place within nature’s tolerable limits. The global report from the nature panel from 2019 shows that we are globally exterminating animals, plants and ecosystems at a pace never before seen in human history. The new nature agreement set joint goals for preserving nature, achieving sustainable management and use and combating the causes of degradation and weathering of ecosystems. The Storting message Nature for life gives us a solid platform to build on. Among other things, Norway has made assessments of the state of most ecosystems, and the government will create a menu of measures to improve the state where necessary. A new message to the Storting will set the direction for Norway’s further efforts for nature. At the same time, we will maintain our international cooperation and support to protect and preserve nature, among other things through Norway’s international climate and forest initiative. Today’s action plan for natural diversity (“Nature for life”) was adopted by the Storting in 2015. news has previously written that the Montreal Agreement has begun to affect Norwegian politics and that several large road and cabin projects are in play. In the Energy Commission, which presented its report last week, a minority of the members (4 out of 15) say that the goal of more wind and water power may collide with the new natural regime. In the Storting, the energy and environment committee has in a short time been given several new proposals to decide on. All with the “revolutionary” nature agreement as a breaking point. One of the proposals states that the new agreement, which was signed by 193 countries, spans the following projects: In Sunnfjord, the fight against “alpine conditions” and a gondola in the Kj\u00f8snesfjord have been given renewed vigor after the Montreal agreement. Photo: Torje Bjellaas, news The Climate Ministry lost responsibility in 2013 In yet another proposal, the new nature agreement is used as an argument for the main responsibility for Norwegian land management to be returned to the Climate and Environment Ministry. The Ministry of Climate Change “lost” this responsibility to the Ministry of Local Government and Modernization when the Solberg government took office in 2013. The move was accompanied by two circulars in which the Solberg government specified that state administrators should “limit the use of objections” and emphasize local democracy more strongly. The MDG’s claim is that this has, in sum, weakened nature’s interests, demonstrated by figures from the National Audit Office which show that 43 per cent of the objections to the state administrator were upheld by the ministry in 2010\u20132013. For the period 2014\u20132017, the corresponding figure is 22 per cent. In 2019, the International Panel on Nature (IPBES) adopted the most comprehensive state of the art report on the earth’s nature and biodiversity to date. – Everyone understands that nature conservation will be stronger if the Ministry of Climate and the Environment is given responsibility, says Rasmus Hansson (MDG). Photo: Heiko Junge \/ NTB – There are few individual decisions that have caused as much damage – There are few individual decisions that have caused as much damage to Norwegian nature as taking responsibility for land management in Norway from the Minister of Climate and Environment, says Birgit Oline Kjerstad, who is a parliamentary representative for SV. She adds: – Now the Labor Party, which in its time set up the world’s first environmental protection ministry, must ensure that the Minister for Climate and Environment once again gets his hands on the wheel and better manages land management. – Self-governance is good, but must be carried out within clear national frameworks Truls Gulowsen, leader of the Nature Conservancy – We agree that the area responsibility should be returned to KLD and that the objection practice should be strengthened. When the State Trustee does not get support, their will to advance objections in the next round also weakens, thus the whole principle is eroded. It is an obvious weakness in Norwegian nature management that there is insufficient correspondence between national biodiversity goals and local implementation. Municipal self-governance is good, but it must take place within clear national frameworks that ensure that we reach the biodiversity targets we have set. Last Thursday, however, a majority of the Storting refused to consider the proposal, on the grounds that this was a question that the government, and not the Storting, should decide on. – We do not support a proposal based on pure special interests, which does not include other societal interests, says Terje Halleland (Frp). He points out that other good purposes can come into conflict with nature’s interests, and that no one is happy with a situation where the regulations get in the way of democratically based considerations. – There are few individual decisions that have caused as much damage to Norwegian nature as taking responsibility for land management in Norway from the Minister for Climate and Environment, says Birgit Oline Kjerstad (SV). Photo: Remi Sagen \/ news \u2013 The commitment to nature is just as strong in the municipalities as it is in the Storting The corresponding signal comes from KS director Helge Eide. He says to news that “the commitment to preserving nature is at least as strong in the municipalities as in the Storting”, and that the Ministry of Municipal Affairs is a “natural place” to place responsibility for land management. – The importance of untouched nature has become clearer in recent years Helge Eide, area director society, welfare and democracy in KS – Where the various departments should be located in the individual ministries, we should not think too strongly about. We respect that each individual government considers and decides on its internal organisation. The legal (and political) clarifications that were given in the previous eight years about the practice of the objection institute were, in our opinion, primarily about limiting the possibilities for a fragmented state administration to unnecessarily overrule political, healthy considerations. So it is clear that the importance of preserving untouched nature and ensuring natural diversity has become clearer in recent years. The understanding that land use decisions are in themselves a critical tool for reaching climate goals, and that the natural crisis and the climate crisis are largely closely related, has been clearly increasing. The Montreal Agreement is visible proof of that. Since we both believe and believe that the commitment to preserving nature is at least as strong in the municipalities that have this nature, as he is in the Storting – we nevertheless believe that the most important measures to make this happen are to increase the knowledge base and develop tools ( such as natural calculus) which visualizes this meaning in the local processes. The conflict between local self-government and national nature goals cuts across several environmental battles in recent years. Most recently symbolized by a hiking trail in Sogndal, where the State Administrator in Vestland has encouraged the municipality to investigate whether the measure is in breach of the Planning and Building Act. Rasmus Hansson (MDG) is pleased with how the Montreal Agreement is affecting Norwegian politics, but says he is equally disappointed that the Storting will not look at the proposal to equip the Ministry of Climate Change. – Norway can only forget about having new, major nature conservation ambitions fulfilled if the Storting does not even want to discuss strengthening nature management. IMPORTANT FOREST: – Amazing that this dead wood has not been environmentally registered before, says the expert. “OLD BAR FOREST”: The pictures are from last year. In 2008, the area was assessed as “old conifer forest”. VALUABLE: The forest was assessed as having the second highest natural value. DEAD WOOD TODAY: In various stages of decomposition.
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