Environmental problems know no national boundaries. Global and regional environmental problems can only be solved through binding co-operation between countries.

International conventions and agreements place obligations on Norwegian nature management and the shaping of Norwegian environmental policy. This applies not least to how we look after our countryside and protect the species inhabiting it.

The Convention on Biological Diversity in particular, but also several other conventions and agreements, have a steering effect on Norwegian management.

An important task for DN is to follow up international conventions and agreements that Norway has ratified.