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Environmental projects

Examples of projects in the environmental area which have received funding from official Nordic co-operation.
Scoping study on financing adaptation-mitigation synergy activities
A new scoping study for NOAK sheds light on synergies between climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, and suggests that Nordic countries place more focus on financing synergies. The study argues from a financing perspective that there is potential in funding synergistic activities for improving the efficiency of climate change actions. While the landscape of current research remains rather scattered and limited, examples that demonstrate promising potential have been identified in several sectors: agriculture, forestry and land use, energy, infrastructure planning and construction, transportation, insurance, and waste treatment.
Promoting the integration of environmental and climate considerations into development aid co-operation
The Nordic prime ministers have commissioned the Nordic aid/development ministers to promote the co-ordination of Nordic development aid, reinforce the green emphasis and study opportunities for the further development of the Nordic Climate Facility.
Nordic Partnership Initiative on Up-scaled Mitigation Action
The Nordic Partnership Initiative on Up-scaled Mitigation Action (NPI) is an initiative between the Nordic Countries (i.e. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden), along with Peru and Vietnam.
Demand in a Fragmented Global Carbon Market: Outlook and Policy Options
The global carbon market currently faces a deep demand crisis. The consequent price fall reduces the incentive to make low-carbon investments and thus increases the risk of locking in carbon-intensive infrastructure. The global carbon market relies on ambitious climate policy and consists of a mosaic of different schemes. Despite the current lack of ambitious global climate policy, various market-based approaches are emerging around the world, indicating increasing scope and fragmentation of the carbon markets. This report, conducted by GreenStream together with Climate Focus, analyses the status and outlook of global carbon markets and identifies measures and circumstances how new demand for carbon credits could be created to strengthen global efforts to limit the global average temperature rise to 2°C, taking into account the trend towards fragmentation of carbon markets.
Enhancing Ambition through International Cooperative Initiatives
There is now wide recognition that the current global emissions pathway – with the reduction pledges on the table in the UNFCCC – is unsustainable and leads the world to an ‘emissions gap’ of some 8-13 GtCO2e in 2020. In line with the decision at UNFCCC-COP18 to identify and explore options for a range of actions that can close this pre-2020 gap, NOAK has identified that a promising way forward could be through the activities of the many International Cooperative Initiatives (ICIs) now working to provide new and additional emission reductions around the world.
Working together on green procurement in the public sector
The Nordic prime ministers have commissioned the trade ministers, in collaboration with the ministers for the environment and energy, to initiate work that is designed, in the first instance, to identify areas and product groups in which green procurement standards are most efficient in comparison with other instruments; and, as a second step, to study the opportunities for co-ordinating green procurement standards at Nordic level. In so far as green business models constitute a useful supplement to labelling schemes, they may be included in this work.
Developing techniques and methods for processing waste
The Nordic prime ministers have commissioned the environment ministers, in collaboration with the energy and trade ministers, to develop joint Nordic methods and technology for selected types of waste in which there is known potential, e.g. building and construction waste, food waste and scrap metal, in order to create a resource-effective life cycle in the waste-treatment sector.
På vej mod 2020 – Udfordringer og fremtid for den nordiske fiskerisektor
Workshop og udredning over nye elektroniske dokumentationssystemer og deres anvendelse ved sporbarhed, miljømærkning, økonomi og lignende. Projekt nr.: 53-2011
Bränslesubventioner
Forskningsprojekt til belysning af de økonomiske konsekvenser af afgiftsfritagelse for energiudgifter i fiskeriet. Projekt nr.: 58-2012
Deltagelse i EFARO Klima/Fiskeri
Informationsprojekt hvor fiskerisamarbejdet ønsker opdateret information om eurpæiske aktiviteter indenfor forskning i klimaeffekter på fiskeriforhold. Projektet finasierer deltagelse i en europæisk koordinerende arbejdsgruppe til gengæld for rapportering tilbage til fiskerisamarbejdet. Projekt nr.: 51-2011
Mammals
Udredning med henblik på konference om de etiske forhold omkring udnyttelse af marine pattedyr. Projekt nr.: 72-2012
Effort quotas
Teoretisk analyse og workshop om indsatskvoter sammenlignet med fangstkvoter. Belyse anvendelse i af indsatskvoter i forskellige lande med fokus på Færøernes anvendelse af fiskedagsregulering. Projekt nr.: 30-2011

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