1993-2000 and 2002-2005, Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). 2000-2001, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway. 2005-2013, successively Deputy Minister of Defence, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minster of Defence, and until October 2013, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway. 2014-16, Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum, Geneva. 2014-17, United Nations Special Adviser on Cyprus, facilitating negotiations aiming at reunifying the divided island. 2017-2021, Member of the Norwegian Parliament, Labour spokesperson on Energy, Climate and Environment. 2013-2021, Board member, and since 2019, Chair of the Board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. Since 2021, Minister of Climate and Development in Norway. President of the Fifth UN Environment Assembly, which agreed to negotiate a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution.
As trade ministers engaged in the Coalition of Trade Ministers on Climate, we know that failure to move beyond a business as usual scenario in the global trading system is not an option. ...
Plastic pollution has reached unprecedented levels and it is projected to triple in the coming decades. This is an unacceptable burden to place on the planet and on future generations. Bu...
What are the main challenges that the world is facing currently in the space of international security? How will the emerging technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution change this ...
面对把新科技转化为武器的团体，我们该如何更好的处理这种威胁？在2030年之前，为了在这一问题上做出改变，联合国塞浦路斯问题特别顾问和全球未来国际安全理事会联席主席Espen Barth Eide表示，面对技术进步的“黑暗面”，我们需要广泛的国际合作、各领域专家的协同努力，来共同思考问题的对策。
How can we better handle the threat to international security posed by groups who turn new technologies into weapons? To make a change by 2030, Espen Barth Eide, United Nations Special Ad...
Stories about killer robots, machine-augmented heroes, laser weapons and battles in space - outer or cyber - have always been good for filling cinema seats, but now they have started to l...
Without a concerted effort to properly address current trends, the world is at risk of sleepwalking into a future of widening chaos with growing danger of interstate conflict. This is the...
