The Nature Index provides statistics on degradation on national and county level, ranging from 1 to 0 (1 means that the indicator is in the reference state, whereas 0 indicates a seriously degraded state). The Ministry of Climate and Environment currently works on developing further the national parameters in "Environmental Status of Norway". Some initial discussions on relevant approaches for applying the 4- level model in Norway have taken place, and one method that has been proposed is to see if levels of degraded state (cf.