Norway adopted a ban on oil and gas for indirect process heating at non-ETS industrial sites from 1 January 2030, with exceptions possible where grid capacity is inadequate or costs are very high.
Source: Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment
Norway’s 2027 budget introduces a first competence-budget chapter prioritising health, science and technology education for workforce planning, alongside proposed new study places.
Source: Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research
Norway’s 2027 budget proposal sets out NOK 395 million for Innovation Norway’s export work and overseas offices, which will use the Business Norway name for these activities.
Source: Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
Norway’s 2027 budget proposal allocates nearly NOK 16.4 billion to its fixed-price and electricity-support schemes, with a proposed Noregspris of 45 øre per kWh excluding VAT.
A proposal would advance municipalities 50% of forecast onshore wind production-fee revenue during construction, with reconciliation after plants enter operation.
Norway’s government proposed a new shareholder register updated continuously from companies’ digital share ledgers and requested NOK 100 million to start the project in 2027.
Norway’s government proposed increasing emergency fuel reserves from the current equivalent of 20 days of domestic consumption to 40–45 days; the proposal has not yet entered consultation.
Source: Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
HMC and the Qatar Precision Health Institute have expanded biobank services to include storage and management of freshly resected tissue. HMC reported first-phase inventory and application figures and said clinical and research pathways will remain separate, with research continuing under ethics review.
Source: Hamad Medical Corporation, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Scotland’s 2026 Fair Work report says the share of regulated public contracts with a scored fair-work criterion rose from 25% in 2019/20 to 54% in 2023/24.
At Investopia Bridge, the investment minister said annual inward FDI flows more than doubled from AED84bn to AED177.3bn, while the UAE ranked second globally for greenfield projects in 2025.
The AI and Advanced Technology Council reviewed progress on the UAE-US AI Campus, research, specialised talent and open models; the announcement did not give investment or project delivery figures.
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