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Oslo (0030)
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Phone: +47 22 24 90 90
Fax: +47 22 24 95 60
Email: postmottak@md.dep.no
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/md.html?id=668

The Ministry of the Environment has a particular responsibility for carrying out the environmental policies of the Government. In addition to initiating, developing and carrying out its own measures through its own instruments, the Ministry of the Environment has an important role in influencing sectoral Ministries at the national level. The Ministry is responsible for coordinating the environmental policy objectives of the Government, and ensuring follow-up and monitoring results of environmental policies.

Environmental policy is divided up into eleven target areas. The individual target areas focus on the most important environmental challenges, and highlight the collective environmental efforts of the Government. Target areas 1-8 comprise the most important policy target areas, with environmental challenges as a starting-point.Target areas 9 and 10 cover the environmental administration’s administrative responsibility for the the planning part of the Building and Planning Act,

as well as mapping and geodata policy on the national level.Target area 11 describes more general tasks and environmental policy work which covers more than one target area.

   1. Sustainable use and protection of biodiversity
   2. Outdoor recreation
   3. Cultural heritage and cultural environments
   4. Fertiliser and oil pollution
   5. Hazardous substances
   6. Waste and recycling
   7. Climate change, air pollution and noise
   8. International environmental cooperation and environmental issues in polar areas
   9. Regional planning
  10. Mapping and geodata
  11. Cross-sectoral instruments and joint tasks

1. Actor:

   Ministry

2. Sector:

   Climate protection (general)

3. Activity:

   Norway