Norway is the latest country to join the Under2 Coalition – a global pact of national and sub-national governments committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions near net-zero by 2050. On August 3, 2017, Vidar Helgesen, Minister of Climate and Environment of Norway joined California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. at a signing ceremony in Sacramento, California.

The coalition now comprises 177 jurisdictions on six continents, which represent the equivalent of over 16 percent of the global population and 39 percent of the global economy. California and the German state of Baden-Württemberg founded the Under2 Coalition in 2015 as a means of spurring climate action from sub-national governments leading up to the Paris climate summit.