Norway offers to help Solomons with renewable energy

3:28 pm on 4 September 2018

Norway wants to help Solomon Islands develop its renewable energy resources.

The Solomon Islands prime minister, Rick Hou, met with Norway's International Development Minister, Nikolai Astrup, at the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' summit in Nauru.

Norwegian Cabinet Minister, Nikolai Astrup, (left), and Solomons PM, Rick Hou

Norwegian Cabinet Minister, Nikolai Astrup, (left), and Solomons PM, Rick Hou Photo: twitter

Mr Hou thanked Norway for its significant contribution to the Green Climate Fund, to which it is providing more than US$270 million over four years.

Part of this fund had already gone to the Tina Hydro Project and Mr Astrup said Norway was keen to also assist the Solomons in the areas of renewable energy, fisheries, and climate change.

He said he would also like to share Norway's experience with marine resources, overfishing and plastic pollution in the oceans.