ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN NORWAY

Emissions of sulfur dioxide from the UK and other industrialized European countries have caused acid rainfall in Norway, causing damage to forests and river streams. This is very serious problem because the soil and water surface of the country are particularly susceptible to the acid rain; leaving lakes without fishes, leading Norway to financial problem because fish are one of the mayor natural resources and export. This paper will propose some possible solutions to this major problem facing the Norwegians coming.

First, one of the possible solutions to this problem is that Norway should promote and support international treaties concerning air pollution, and organizations that conform by several countries that promote technical studies and projects to stimulate an improvement in the environment, such as agreements with countries like the UK to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide.

Working with the UN, some legislation can be worked up in order to penalize with fines to all of the enterprises that contaminates Norwegian ground or water and giving them that money as a compensation and as a way of having some extra resources to either investing in tree plantings or to help the industries that have suffer lost due to the contamination. 

Another solution and probably the most important is making people aware about the planet. Every government should make people to worry about nature and contamination, and this can be developed by making campaigns in schools, universities and enterprises. If every country wants to find a solution to contamination they should begin with their citizens. 

to sum up Norway’s contamination situation is a reality for which we have to be more aware of that’s why it’s important to make people realize the importance of the environment, so they wouldn’t contaminate in the same way because they would notice that they are who are being seen primarily affected, also its important that companies, which are the ones that contaminate more began to worry more about the negative effects they are causing, and they start being part of the change.

Created by:

Daniella Acevedo

Daniella Gonzalez

Alejandro Murillo

Carlos Manrique

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