Norway is in for tough coalition talks, and the country’s energy and climate policy – including the future of its oil & gas sector – are likely to take centre stage in the negotiations after the conservative government of Prime Minister Erna Solberg and her Høyre party were voted out of power yesterday (Monday).

Opposition leader Jonas Gahr Støre, the millionaire leader of the social democratic Workers Party and a former foreign minister, won the vote with 26.4%,