Norway’s updated NDC increases its emissions reduction target for 2030

Norway has submitted to the UNFCCC an updated first nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris agreement, which increases the country’s 2030 emission reduction target to at least 55% from a 1990 baseline, adjusting its ambition upwards from its previous target of 50% (submitted in 2020). The target doesn’t include land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF).

The new target puts Norway in line with the EU's goals (Fit for 55 package), as the Union has a binding target of 55% emissions reduction by 2030, again from 1990 levels.

According to the updated NDC, Norway’s greenhouse gas emissions should reach about 23 MtCO₂eq in 2030, as the base year emission level retained in Norway's National Inventory Report was about 51 MtCO₂eq in 1990. In 2021, Norway’s carbon emissions alone reached 45.4 MtCO₂.