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Focus on Nordic food safety in China: Sep 01, 2010; Fighting salmonella and other solutions that promote food safety in the Nordic countries were given excellent visibility in Shanghai on Monday. A Nordic-Chinese forum on food safety attracted a full house. About 160 of the participants were Chinese.
Nordic focus on safe food in Shanghai: Aug 25, 2010; In the Nordic countries you can trust that the food you put on the table is safe to eat. By focusing on food safety the Nordic countries have found solutions to manage and minimise the problems.
Newsweek: Finland best in world: Aug 17, 2010; The Nordic countries have come out on top of the Newsweek ranking of the best places in the world to live. Finland claimed top spot, followed by Sweden in third, Norway in sixth and Denmark in tenth. Iceland did not feature in the comparative survey of one hundred countries.
Study of food waste from shops: Aug 10, 2010; Every year shops throw enormous amounts of food on the refuse dump, mostly due to wrong quantities purchased or because the sell-by date is exceeded. Discarded food has an impact on the environment as well as causing financial losses.
Huge advantages with joint Nordic climate strategy: Jun 22, 2010; If the Nordic countries were to co-ordinate their future energy, climate, and air pollution strategies it would provide significant benefits for the environment and community planning. This is the result of a Nordic study co-ordinated by IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
Competition to find solutions to climate change: Jun 21, 2010; Does your organisation have a practical solution to assist municipalities and other local and regional actors to better control the effects of climate change? The Associations of Local Authorities in Finland, Sweden and Norway and the Nordic Council of Ministers are organising an international competition to search for new or as yet unestablished business concepts, practices and technologies to better control the effects of climate change.
First anniversary: Nordic consumers want more Keyhole food: Jun 17, 2010; In a short period of time the Keyhole label has become well established as a nutritional food label amongst Nordic consumers. In Sweden there are around 2500 Keyhole products on the market, in Norway and Denmark there are at least 500.
UN Mercury Conference closes: Jun 11, 2010; The UN Mercury Conference in Stockholm drew to a close on Friday in a positive atmosphere. The internal power struggle within the EU, which had cast dark shadows over the conference earlier in the week, failed to have the negative effect on the meeting that many had feared. The participating countries, including the USA and China, have all adopted a positive stance to the target of a binding global agreement on mercury by 2013.
Praise for Nordic efforts on mercury: Jun 11, 2010; During the UN mercury conference in Stockholm, considerable positive attention was paid to the work done on the issue by the Nordic countries. Delegates from all over the world have acknowledged the role of the Region and the Council of Ministers in attempts to restrict the use of mercury.
Three new Nordic Centres of Excellence: Jun 11, 2010; NCoE SVALI, CRAICC and DEFROST are the names of three new Nordic Centres of Excellence (NCoE) to be funded by the Top-level Research Initiative (TRI) sub-programme ‘Interaction between climate change and the cryosphere’. “We are convinced that these centres will conduct word-class reseach and generate considerable added value for Nordic research in this area," said a satisifed chair of the programme committee, Magnus Friberg.
West Nordic region can contribute to sustainable EU fishing: Jun 09, 2010; The West Nordic region has long experience with sustainable management of fish resources and can contribute valuable experience to the reform of the EU fisheries strategy, believes the Nordic Council's President, Helgi Hjörvar.
Global mercury emissions can be halved: Jun 08, 2010; There is a huge but untapped potential for reducing global emissions of mercury. Mercury emissions can be more than halved by 2020 with the help of modern technology, according to a recent report funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. The report was presented at a packed seminar on Tuesday during the UN mercury conference in Stockholm.
UN rewards Nordic Council of Ministers: Jun 08, 2010; The Nordic Council of Ministers is honoured by the United Nations for the organisation's efforts in the fight against mercury. The Council of Ministers has been awarded a gold diploma at the UN's mercury conference which opened in Stockholm on Monday.
Slow start to the UN mercury conference: Jun 07, 2010; Negotiations for a global treaty on mercury got off to a sluggish start when the UN's historic conference opened in Stockholm on Monday. There is an ongoing internal struggle within the EU, which has led to a marked limitation in the Union's ability to negotiate in Stockholm. The Commission and member governments have not been able to agree on who should represent the EU in the negotiations.
Global agreement on mercury in sight: Jun 04, 2010; A global and binding agreement is needed on mercury usage and emissions, the Nordic environment ministers stress in a joint opinion piece. The first UN negotiating meeting, in Stockholm 7-11 June, represents a major step towards that goal.
Nordic pressure for the Baltic Sea environment: May 26, 2010; Sinikka Bohlin (Social Democrats, Sweden) promises stronger pressure from the Nordic MPs in the struggle for the recovery of the Baltic Sea.
Karen Ellemann: No need for new Arctic agreement: May 26, 2010; “Despite what some people might say, there is no need for a new agreement about how the Arctic is governed,” Karen Ellemann, the Danish Minister of the Environment, who doubles as Minister for Nordic Co-operation, stressed at an international Arctic conference in Copenhagen on Wednesday.
Ecolabelling contributes to poverty reduction: May 17, 2010; Ecolabels are important tools for achieving more sustainable societies, both in developed and developing regions. By advancing sustainable consumption and production patterns ecolabelling can also contribute to poverty reduction and increase international competitiveness of developing economies.
Six nominations for Environment Prize: Apr 23, 2010; Green banks are competing for the Nordic Council Nature and Environment Prize 2010. The original 15 nominations have been whittled down to six, most of them financial institutions, for the final round. Three of the finalists are from Norway (Storebrand, KLP and Cultura Sparbank), two from Sweden (Ekobanken, GES Investment Services) and one from Denmark (Merkur Andelskasse).
World leaders in information technology: Mar 26, 2010; Denmark and Sweden once again lead the rankings in the "Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009". The other Nordic countries – Finland, Iceland and Norway – are also in the top ten.

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