ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the status was sought in the negotiations under the United Nation (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the five-year period from 2007 to 2012. A period marked by efforts to negotiate a new international climate change agreement to succeed the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. After the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was asked by the UN Secretary-General to head a 'High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance'. Following the announcement in Bali, the government set up Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), with a dedicated staff in the Ministry of the Environment. The chapter draws upon an anonymized set of interviews with Norwegian climate actors and Norwegian and non-Norwegian NGO representatives, as well as analysis of documents published on the government's webpage relating to reduce emissions from deforestation (REDD+) initiatives.
