Ståle Navrud (HH) and Siri Eriksen (LANDSAM) participated May 12th in a parliamentary hearing to the Energy and Environment committee on the government's new climate report. Navrud presented NMBU’s input that was based on an interdisciplinary consultation response prepared by researchers across faculties (HH/CENCE, MINA and LANDSAM), edited by CENCE professors Ståle Navrud and Knut Einar Rosendahl.
In the hearing, NMBU emphasized the need for ambitious and binding climate targets in line with the Climate Change Act, with clear sub-goals for national emissions reductions within 2035. Climate policies to reach these goals should promote broad, rapid, nature-friendly and just transitions, as the risk of irreversible impacts for nature and society as well as the costs increase if we do not act fast. NMBU highlighted that forestry and land use have a large impact on Norway’s net emissions, and separate emission reduction targets should be set for this sector. They should be based on an action plan for Norwegian forests that considers the trade-offs between all ecosystem services provided by forests, and secure climate resilient and biodiversity rich forests. Economic instruments in terms of taxes on greenhouse gas emissions from land use and nature tax reflecting biodiversity impacts should be considered as additional regulatory measures to help achieve a broad and rapid transition to a low emission society by 2050.
NMBU also called for more use of the knowledge from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to be used as a foundation for practical, local action, to support the development of robust, sustainable, and socially just communities.
Read the consultation statement from NMBU here.
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