Sustainable Development,
National Agenda 21
The Norwegian Government presented a
National Action Plan for Sustainable Development, National Agenda 21,
to the Parliament in the National Budget for 2004. One of the proposals in
National Agenda 21 was to ask an Official Commission to develop a core set of
indicators for sustainable development with the preliminary set presented in
the National Budget 2004 as a point of departure. The proposals were presented
to the Norwegian Minister of Finance in March 2005.
Members of the Commission have been Knut
H. Alfsen, Øyvind Lone, Else Marie Løbersli, Thorvald Moe and Karine Nyborg.
This is an English Summary of our proposals, mainly based on chapters 3 and 5 in the official Norwegian
Report, NOU 2005:5.
The Commission was composed of one
biologist, one geographer, one physicist and two economists. This group,
representing both physical and social science, agreed on a core set of 16
indicators as an aid for assessment of policies to enhance sustainable development
in Norway.
