The Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment has considered a private member's bill requesting cost calculations for Norway's climate target of a 70 percent emissions cut by 2035. A majority from the Labour Party, Socialist Left Party, Red Party, Green Party, and Liberal Party recommends rejecting the proposal, arguing that thorough cost analyses already exist and that new studies would waste public resources. The Progress Party and Centre Party contend that the absence of a cost analysis weakens the decision-making foundation, while the Conservative Party has submitted two separate proposals to present cost analyses as part of a joint energy and climate statement.
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The Storting calls on the government to conduct and present a comprehensive socioeconomic cost analysis of Norway reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent from 1990 levels by 2035.
The Storting calls on the government, as part of a joint energy and climate statement, to present possible measures and policy instruments for reaching Norway's climate targets and to submit a comprehensive socioeconomic cost analysis of these measures, as well as estimate the electricity and grid capacity they will require, to ensure competitiveness for business and long-term sustainability in the Norwegian economy.
The Storting calls on the government, as part of a joint energy and climate statement, to assess the socioeconomic costs and consequences if Norway does not cut emissions beyond current levels, as well as the opportunity cost and security implications if emissions-liable industry fails to transition to net-zero emissions in Norway, including the risk of plant closures and carbon leakage.
Document 8:174 S (2025–2026) – Private member's bill from MPs Sylvi Listhaug, Morten Stordalen, Kristoffer Sivertsen, Rikard Spets, and Tor Mikkel Wara on cost calculations for reaching Norway's climate targets – is not adopted.