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Partnerships

The ESG challenges and opportunities facing our industry are too big for any of us to tackle alone. Collaboration and partnerships are vital.

Signage of the FUTURE-PROOF initiative. From left: Malene Sighaug Bigseth (FUTURE-PROOF), Harald Fotland (Odfjell), Tom Christer Nilsen (Bergen Chamber)


We endorse and actively participate in various initiatives 
to guide our work and to collaborate for action:

  • Signatory to the UN Global Compact since 2011.
     
  • We endorsed the UN Global Compact Sustainable Ocean Principles in 2019, and targets based on a campaign initiated by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) on UN's 17 Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs).
     
  • Member of the ‘Getting to Zero’ coalition since 2019, a global alliance working to operate zero-emission vessels on deep-sea trades by 2030.
     
  • Signatory to the Global Maritime Forum's 'Call to Action for Shipping Decarbonization', supporting the call on governments to work together with the industry to deliver the policies and investments needed to reach critical tipping points in decarbonizing global supply chains, and the global economy.
     
  • Member and part of the board of Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN). Member since 2017. 
     
  • Member and part of the board of NCE Maritime CleanTech cluster, a maritime commercial cluster supported by the Norwegian government working to develop innovative solutions for energy-efficient and clean maritime activities.
     
  • Signatory of the FUTURE-PROOF initiative in support of human rights, a Norwegian collaboration platform initiated by the Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights in 2022. 
     
Picture: Malene Sighaug Bigseth (FUTURE-PROOF), Harald Fotland (Odfjell), Tom Christer Nilsen (Bergen Chamber).
Photo by Gunnar Eide 

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