Einar Bakke Håndlykken (born 9 August 1976 in

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) is a Norwegian

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and director of the environmental foundation

Zero Emission Resource Organisation Zero Emission Resource Organisation or ZERO is a Norwegian environmental organisation that was founded in 2002 to work on the reduction of greenhouse gases, primarily in Norway. The philosophy of the organisation is that if new facilities are ...

(ZERO). Håndlykken started with environmentalism as a youth in

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Natur og Ungdom, and became deputy chairman of the national organisation in 1997 and served as its chairman in 1999 and 2000. He worked for Bellona from 2001 to 2002, when he co-founded ZERO.

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