Bård Lappegård Lahn (born 26 May 1983 in

Stange is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebyen. Other villages include Bekkelaget, Espa, Bottenfjellet, Ilseng ...

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) is a Norwegian

environmentalist An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with and/or advocates for the protection of the environment. An environmentalist can be considered a supporter of the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that s ...

and writer. He is a researcher at CICERO Center for international climate research in Oslo, with a research focus on climate politics,

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, and

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. He has previously worked as an adviser on international climate policy in the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, and from 2006 to 2008 he was chairman of the environmental NGO Natur og Ungdom. Prior to his leadership he had been deputy chairman since 2003 and an active member of Natur og Ungdom since the mid-1990s. Lahn has served on several boards, including the board of the Sophie Prize, and is currently chairman of the board for

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. In the early 1990s, he had his own section in the children's TV show Newtons Hage on the Norwegian TV channel Norsk Rikskringkasting.

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1983 births Living people Norwegian environmentalists Nature and Youth activists People from Stange {{Norway-bio-stub