Norway invests in Arctic research
As part of its strategy on the High North and the Arctic, Norway will establish a new Centre on Climate and Environmental research in Tromsø, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said today. In addition, the country will acquire a new icebreaking research vessel for the Arctic.
The new initiatives were presented by Mr. Stoltenberg in a press conference in Tromsø, Norway, today. Together with four cabinet ministers, the prime minister presented the government’s new High North document named New Building Stones in the North. Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen said that new centre will help collect knowledge on Arctic research and that is must become world-leading in its field. It will be located as part of the Polar Institute in Tromsø. The new research vessel will be acquired in the course of the next few years and be an important symbol for Norwegian Arctic research, Stoltenberg said. It will have Tromsø as its home port.
