Norway and China have a mutual interest in combating deteriorating environments and have cooperated on environmental issues for more than a decade.
Editor's note: China and Norway have made considerable progress in nurturing joint environmental protection initiatives between the two countries. Nina Rr, the environmental counselor for the Norwegian embassy in Beijing, spoke to China Daily about the issues that unite the two nations.
The world's environment is deteriorating at an alarming speed. Economic growth has come at a high environmental cost. Pollution of the air, water and land is having a serious impact on the well-being and health of people and on the world's ecosystems.
Highlights of the first meeting between environment ministers in Oslo in AprilThe following is a summary of the first annual meeting between the environment ministers of China and Norway in Oslo on April 23, 2009.