By providing more renewable electricity for major industrial plants and offshore oil and gas platforms, Norway could cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 4 million tonnes per year, or nearly 8 percent of the total.
Norway has signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change, pledging earlier this year to cut its domestic emissions of greenhouse gases in half by 2030. By the mid-2020s, half of all oil and gas output in Norway could come from platforms receiving renewable power from land, rather than from generators run on diesel or natural gas.
Norway produces 2 percent of global oil and is Europe's second-biggest supplier of natural gas. Its greenhouse gas commitments cover only domestic emissions, however, and not those from fossil fuels extracted from its territory and used by others. Norway produces nearly all of its electricity from hydropower dams and wind farms.
