ABSTRACT
In 2007, two Norwegian ENGO leaders wrote a letter, saying that rainforests should be at the centre of a Norwegian climate strategy. By 2010, Norway had announced bilateral partnerships on rainforest protection with Brazil and Indonesia, pledging up to US$1billion to each for forest conservation. In Indonesia, the partnership involved a moratorium on new forest permits and the production of‘one map’to authorise all forest and land-change decisions. Norway’s rainforest-climate policy bought it the title of‘king of the rainforest’, but the bilateral partnership was compensation for Norway’s high per capita carbon emissions, based on its hydrocarbon-dependent economy. Chapter 4 explores how Norway’s petroleum addiction fuelled a flawed rainforest conservation strategy, offshoring its climate responsibilities to poor countries and avoiding the enormous domestic structural social and economic changes Norway must make to become sustainable.
