Alhassan Mohammed (21) is the founder of Fridays for Future in Sudan, and has just come home from COP27 in Egypt. What does Alhassan Mohammed think about the results from COP27? How is climate change affecting his country? And does he have any messages for the Norwegian government? Read our interview with Alhassan Mohammed here!
Sustainability Week (Bærekraftsuka) is ForUM's yearly campaign to spread awareness about and work towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Our focus this year has been to spread hope for Agenda 2030. We held events with interesting guests, a writing contest for youths under 25, and made the public more familiar with our member organizations and partners with the help of our social media campaign.
This is a dark day for Telenor, and for Norway as a human rights nation, says executive director Kathrine Sund-Henriksen.
In September of 2021 ministers from all over the world met in Geneva (and virtually) to commence the work on a global plastic waste agreement. Why is that necessary and what will it entail? In this article we explain the problem of plastic pollution and how we can move forward on this issue at the UNEA 5.2 coming up.
Civil society in Myanmar has sent an open letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. In it they request that the Norwegian state stops Telenor's planned sale of its daughter company in Myanmar.
The World Inequality Report 2022 shows how the climate crisis also is a crisis of inequality. What does this look like from a Norwegian perspective?
In October 2021 ForUM launched the report «Partnership, politics and money» which maps the experiences of Norwegian civil society’s participation in international processes. The report finds that the partnership between civil society and the authorities can be improved in many areas, but that Norway also has the opportunity to establish the gold standard for participation.
The Agenda 2030-declaration highlights the importance of partnership to ensure implementation of the sustainable development goals. In many countries this partnership has been formalised in multi-stakeholder bodies. In a new policy brief, ForUM has reviewed experiences from Germany, Finland and Mexico to explore options for a Norwegian multi-stakeholder forum.