Gathering at Lysebu
Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales attended a banquet held by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in connection with an international conference on preserving the rainforests.
The conference is being held in Oslo on Thursday, and Prince Charles The Prince of Wales is among the participants.
The Oslo Climate and Forest Conference 2010
The conference brings together heads of state, ministers of the environment, and experts from countries around the world who are involved in the efforts to preserve the world’s rainforests. Norway’s conference delegates include Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim.
The purpose of the conference is to establish an interim partnership scheme for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. This partnership will seek to ensure the rapid implementation of a global, coordinated effort to preserve the world’s tropical forests, in keeping with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Crown Princess as host
Crown Princess Mette-Marit is hosting Prince Charles during his stay in Norway. The British heir to the throne was met at Oslo Gardermoen Airport by Crown Prince Haakon, who after a brief meeting with Prince Charles flew to Shanghai, China, where he will attend Norway Day at EXPO 2010.
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Welcoming the Restauration to the US
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon, along with a couple of thousand attendees, welcomed the sloop Restauration to New York, exactly 200 years after the vessel carrying Norwegian emigrants arrived in the United States. In 1825, they crossed the Atlantic in search of a new and better life. This voyage is regarded as the beginning of organised emigration from Norway.
Met with Governor Walz in Minnesota
Minnesota is one of the states in the United States where a large proportion of the population has Norwegian ancestry. His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon is therefore also visiting this state and its largest metropolitan area, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, during his trip to the United States to mark the 200th anniversary of Norwegian emigration to the US.