Norway votes – but is Europe’s biggest oil giant ready to go green?

The Scandinavian country faces a crisis of conscience on the eve of elections

Norway goes to the polls on Monday in parliamentary elections that are forcing western Europe's largest oil and gas producer to confront its environmental contradictions.

Climate issues have dominated the campaigning since August, when the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its starkest warning yet that global heating is dangerously close to spiralling out of control.