Petroleum World: Energy Policy: A Norwegian Perspective

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"A Common Energy Future

This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development entitled “Our Common Future”. My choice of the word “celebrate” is deliberate. Not only because this UN Commission was chaired by Norway’s then Prime Minister Dr Brundtland, but mainly because it put the concept of “sustainable development” at the very top of the international political agenda. For discussion and for action – nationally, regionally and globally. It is still there today, with action more urgent than ever before. It highlighted the importance of oil prices and reducing market volatility, recommending that new mechanisms for encouraging dialogue between consumers and producers be explored. On that note Prime Minister Brundtland called in 1989 for an informal “Workshop of Ministers” of energy producing and consuming countries to discuss the resource and market outlook as well as the links between energy and environment. Two years later, at the initiative of President Mitterand of France and President Perez of Venezuela, the first such Ministerial meeting took place in Paris. The following year, Dr Brundtland convened the Second Ministerial Workshop in Norway."

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