The city of Oslo has undertaken several ambitious and wide-ranging initiatives in the last six years to decrease its greenhouse-gas emissions. Between 2009 and 2019, total emissions in the city dropped by 16 per cent.
In September of 2019, roughly a dozen workers in Oslo, Norway, broke ground on the world’s first zero-emission construction site. They were widening a busy street into a pedestrian zone, using powerful machinery to break and lift slabs of asphalt. But the equipment was so quiet that nearby cafés and restaurants kept their front doors open. Passersby stopped to pose for photos, ask questions, and praise the project.
In its commitment, Oslo is an outlier. Following its lead, however, cities around the world are growing interested in climate budgeting. Last fall, eleven cities from the C40—a global network of cities whose members jointly represent twenty per cent of global G.D.P. and a thirteenth of the world’s population—joined a pilot program to study how climate budgeting could be adapted in their localities. Stockholm has already launched a similar program.
Climate budgeting requires the accurate measurement of emissions. If you don’t know the quantity of emissions that different activities cause, it’s impossible to assess the efficacy of different proposed measures.
Between 2009 and 2019, total emissions in Oslo dropped by sixteen per cent, and its progress has been accelerating as it more fully embraces the climate-budget process. This year, the city set a record for electric-vehicle sales—nearly eighty-three per cent of all new cars sold in Oslo in the first quarter were electric—and it is set to transition its bus fleet to one that is virtually all-electric by 2023, ahead of its 2028 goal. At the same time, new obstacles are always arising.
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