Norway has stolen a march over other developed countries by declaring that it would reduce 40% of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and become carbon neutral by 2030. Its 49 year-old prime minister Jens Stoltenberg , in India for the Delhi Sustainability Development Summit, assures that Norway will do everything possible to make this happen. An economist from Oslo University, Stoltenberg spoke to Narayani Ganesh and said that carbon taxes, rather than subsidies, could better deliver on emissions reduction:

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