Frederic Hauge (NO)

Frederic Hauge founded the Bellona foundation in 1986, at the age of twenty. Through academic work, legal action and non-violent activism, Bellona has changed the opinion and set the agenda on climate and environmental issues in Norway for almost four decades. The work of the Bellona Foundation has led to concrete changes in environmental policy and awareness among political and business leaders, both in Norway and internationally. Bellona’s work includes a wide range of issues from industrial pollution, nuclear waste and stopping the oil industry in the arctic to the electrification of Norway’s vehicle fleet, seaweed cultivation, large-scale battery production and making the desert green. 

Hauge was in 2007 elected Vice Chairman of the European Commission’s Technology Platform for CO2 sequestration (ZEP). The same year TIME Magazine named him “Hero of The Environment”. In 2009 Frederic Hauge became a board member of the EU Biofuel Platform (EBTP). In 2010 he took a leading international role in exploring the possibilities of combining biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS), through the creation of Joint Task Force. In 2011 he was asked to be one of the 12 personal advisors to the EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger on the extensive EU Energy Roadmap 2050. Hauge is also Co-Founder of the Sahara Forest Project, Ocean Forest, Morrow Batteries and Accelerate Capital.