From Nature Crisis to Solutions: Norway's road to the Nature Deal (seminar 4)
In CeSAM's interdisciplinary seminar series 2024-2025, we tackle big and small questions at the intersection between nature and politics. We take the Norwegian perspective as our starting point and put an interdisciplinary spotlight on Norway's implementation of the nature agreement. All welcome!

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Seminar 4:
Nature and history
with Marit Ruge Bjærke
“For thousands of years, the sustainable use and conservation of nature has provided a basis for settlement and jobs…” This is how Norway’s new action plan for biodiversity begins. In seminar 4 on Norway and the Global Biodiversity Framework, Marit Ruge Bjærke, a researcher in cultural studies, will look at the action plan with a historical perspective.
Norway's action plan for bioldiversity refers to thousands of years of sustainable use, but in this seminar we are only going back about fifty years. When the Ministry of Climate and Environment presented the action plan in September 2024, it was 52 years since Norway had its own Ministry of Environmental Protection. At that time, we were the first in the world to have a ministry that was supposed to take care of the environment. But how have the ambitions fared along the way? Do you have the money and objectives that form the basis for environmental management to develop in a positive direction for nature? Or are we standing still? And what is the connection between Norwegian environmental policy and international agreements?
NB: This seminar will be held in Norwegian.
Our normal venue was unavailable. The seminar will therefore be held at the Faculty of Law (Jusbygget), seminar room 2.