From Nature Crisis to Solutions: Norway's road to the Nature Deal (seminar 5)
In CeSAM's interdisciplinary seminar series 2024-2025, we tackle big and small questions at the intersection between nature and politics. We take the Norwegian perspective as our starting point and put an interdisciplinary spotlight on Norway's implementation of the nature agreement. All welcome!
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Seminar 5:
Nature in Political Decisions
with Håvard Haarstad.
How to make nature count in political decisions?
Politicians often say that nature is invaluable – but when it comes to political decisionmaking it is often not accounted for. How can we make nature count in nature and climate-related political decisions? The budgeting approach to sustainability is one way to try to make nature and climate count in politics. Climate budgets has been developed over a number of years, particularly by the Oslo. Nature accounting is also emerging as an approach to achieve more sustainable land use, in Vestland County and elsewhere.
What is the potential of the budgeting approach for making more sustainable political decisions? In this talk, Haarstad will discuss these questions and approaches with reference to the new research project ECOBUDGETS, recently funded by the Research Council of Norway.
NB: This seminar will be held in English.