The State Administration Database

Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2010* Regular founding

Name: * Forrest project
Short name: Skogprosjektet
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Quasioffice
Located: 301 Oslo

01.01.2012* Change of name

Name: The Government of Norway's Interntional Climate and Forest Initiative
Short name: KOS

he initiative was launched by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg during the climate change negotiations at Bali in December 2007. The initiative seeks to achieve cost-effective and verifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD), and applies to all types of tropical forests.
Source: Regjeringen.no
(www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/md/Selected-topics/climate/the-government-of-norways-international-.html?id=548491)

01.01.2015* Change of name

Name: Climate and Forest Initiative
Short name: KOS

01.01.2018* Change of name

Name: Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
Short name: Klima- og skogsatsingen

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2020* Change of name

Name: Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
Short name: KOS

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.07.2022* New superior organization (horizontal movement)

(The unit has changed superior.)

Tasks:
The initiative works on several fronts to help reduce tropical deforestation, including bilateral cooperation with the largest rainforest countries, multilateral efforts, support to civil society organisations and cooperation with the business world to bring about deforestation-free supply chains.
Source: regjeringen.no

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.