Ten years of climate change - what has been followed up?

In this note, we consider the implementation of the approximately 200 recommendations of five central climate and transition committees in Norway: the Green Tax Commission (2015), the Climate Risk Committee (2018), the Climate Change Committee (2020), the Climate Finance Committee (2023) and the Climate Change Committee 2050 (2023). The main result of the analysis is that the follow-up to the recommendations is inadequate, despite the fact that the committees' proposals are well-founded and have broad professional support.

Each recommendation is evaluated based on whether it is:

• Conducted
• Partially completed
• Not carried out

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We consider not whether a recommendation is good or not -- only if it has been implemented. There may be good reasons why some measures have not been followed up. For example, some recommendations have met with professional resistance from other environments, others may be outdated. The ideal, therefore, should not be 100 percent follow-up. Despite this, we believe our review illustrates that the policy follow-up to the measures has been inadequate.

Our assessments are made on the basis of publicly available documentation, including parliamentary announcements, government budgets, propositions, public reports, strategies and other relevant policy documents. In addition, in some cases, supplementary information and input from members of the respective committees or ministries have been obtained.

The note is only in Norwegian - can be requested in English by emailing kontakt@langsikt.no.