10 Facts About Ola Elvestuen

Ola Elvestuen was born on 9 October 1967 and is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party who served as Minister of Climate and the Environment from 2018 to 2020.

Ola Elvestuen was the party's deputy leader from 2008 to 2020, and has been an MP for Oslo since 2013.

Ola Elvestuen is a younger brother of illustrator Per Elvestuen.

Ola Elvestuen was a member of the Storting from Oslo in 2013, and served as leader of the Energy and the Environment Committee since 2013.

Ola Elvestuen notably praised them for raising awareness of food wasting and called on consumers to help reduce food waste.

In May 2019, Ola Elvestuen expressed his disagreement with his Brazilian counterpart, Ricardo Salles, who had stated that Norway's billion contribution to the Amazon rain forest fund was futile.

Ola Elvestuen was among the non-Progress Party ministers to be dismissed on 24 January 2020 alongside the Progress Party ministers, who stepped down as a result of their party withdrawing from government.

Ola Elvestuen was succeeded by fellow Liberal Party member Sveinung Rotevatn.

Ola Elvestuen said that he demanded many postponed government conferences "by many hours" and "never gave up".

Ola Elvestuen refused to comment Jensen's recollection of him, but notes that there was hard fighting for many issues such as climate change, nature and drug reform.