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Kansainvälisen energiajärjestön IEA:n uudeksi pääjohtajaksi on valittu Japanin Nobuo Tanaka. Hän aloittaa nelivuotisen toimikautensa 1.9.2007, kun järjestön nykyinen pääjohtaja, ranskalainen Claude Mandil siirtyy eläkkeelle. Tanakan nimityksestä päätettiin IEA.n hallintoneuvoston kokouksessa Sydneyssä 13.–14.12.2006.

The theme for the 19th Round Table was "The Economics of Illegal Logging and Associated Trade". More then 40 people of which 9 Ministers from different parts of the world participated in the meeting chaired for the last time by Mr. Simon Upton, a former Minister of Environment of New Zealand. His successor as a chairman for round table discussions will be Mr. Brice Lalonde from France.

The economy is experiencing a favourable period of robust growth, low unemployment and moderate underlying inflation. This largely reflects the effects of globalisation, of which Norway has been a prime beneficiary, supplying energy and other commodities at high prices and increasingly importing products from low cost countries. Sizeable labour migration inflows, together with sustained productivity growth, have kept cost inflation at a moderate pace.

UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa prize for the use of information and communication technologies in education was awarded to Kemi-Tornio Polytechnic at the UNESCO headquarters on the 12th January 2007. The prize was given for the development of The eDegree Programme in Lapland that offers a full BBA education programme to students in remote and rural areas who have few study opportunities due to their location or work situation.