OSLO - Oslo’s 2016 goal to combat climate change was as radical as it was unprecedented: to halve greenhouse gas emissions within four years. Read more at straitstimes.com.
OSLO - Oslo’s 2016 goal to combat climate change was as radical as it was unprecedented: to halve greenhouse gas emissions within four years.
A newer goal - cutting emissions by 95 per cent from 2009 levels by 2030 - is similarly now in jeopardy. In response to questions, the city council said it could not evaluate its performance against the 2016 target because government agencies had upgraded their methodologies for tracking greenhouse gases, which it said meant statistics from before 2009 were unreliable.
Oslo is “doing an amazing job” by the standards of any major capital, said Stig Schjølset of Norwegian environmental group Zero, praising the city’s policies such as having emissions-free building sites which use electric diggers and cranes. “We cannot afford slow movers, fake movers or any form of greenwashing,” he said in the report by a UN expert group. Cities are responsible for more than 70 per cent of emissions, making them a vital part of efforts to combat global warming, he said.
Sirin Hellvin Stav, Oslo’s vice mayor for environment and transport and a member of the Green Party, said the city’s 2016 goals were set in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The then centre-right government did not comply, but a new centre-left government last year promised to help fund the 9 billion crown project. It is set to start in 2027 at the earliest.
Emissions in Hamburg, the 2011 winner, fell about 36 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020, slightly short of its goal of 40 per cent. It now aims to cut emissions by 70 per cent by 2030, city officials said.
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