Already next year can gasoline and diesel cars be banned in parts of Oslo.
Oslo Municipality is considering introducing zero emission zones within Ring 1 from 2022/23. During 2025, this can be extended to also apply within the entire Ring 2.
Recently, Norconsult, on behalf of the Climate Agency in Oslo, has calculated how large greenhouse gas emissions such emission-free zones can produce.
In short, the answer was surprisingly large.
But not everyone is equally happy with the conclusion of the report. FrP’s parliamentary representative, Bård Hoksrud, is furious at the report and calls it “a commissioned work” from MDG.
– Extreme and moralistic
– Overflowing report
In the smallest of the zones, the ban on petrol and diesel cars can result in a reduction in emissions of 27,000 tonnes of CO₂ in 2023. This corresponds to five per cent of Oslo’s greenhouse gas emissions from transport in 2020, the report states.
If the zone is extended to apply to the entire Ring 2, it could result in a cut of 73,000 tonnes in 2026. This corresponds to 13 per cent of Oslo’s greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector, Norconsult writes.
In the report, Norconsult further writes that they have not looked at costs, disadvantages and socio-economic distributional effects as a result of the zero-emission zones.
This is one of the things Hoksrud reacts to.
– I think this seems more like a commissioned work to justify its own policy, than to provide an objective presentation about the consequences, he says to Dagbladet and continues:
– I often think it is the case that MDG gets the reports they order. If we go back and look at what the consultant answers to the question of whether measures other than bans have also been considered, then the answer is that it has not been part of the assignment to study alternative measures. Then you can not call this anything other than a commissioned work. The costs and disadvantages of bans have also not been part of the analysis. Therefore, this is an overflowing report that the MDGs are clearly pressing to their chest.
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Fear of trade
Bård Hoksrud tells Dagbladet that he now fears that MDG will now use the report for all it is worth “to achieve a utopia without anchoring in reality”.
– In the fight against the car, they will not see the consequences of their own policy, he says to Dagbladet.
– MDG says that this may not affect those who live in the city center, but what about all those who work in the city center or shop in the city center? Does the MDGs understand that politics also affects people’s behaviors and habits? Stores get fewer customers, trade can be moved online and eventually the shops have to be closed down. Office space is being moved out of the city center. Then it will eventually affect those who live here, says Hoksrud before he concludes:
– It is no wonder that emissions in the city center go down if people stop going there.
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– Can not dictate the content
In addition, Hoksrud points out that this summer prices of up to NOK 20 per liter for fuel have been seen.
– With MDG with one hand on the wheel, we risk prices up to 25 kroner. I look with horror and horror at what the next four years can be like, if the MDGs come to the fore.
The recent Environment and Transport Agency in Oslo, Sirin Stav (MDG), responds to the following claims from Hoksrud:
– The MDGs cannot dictate the content of reports prepared by independent experts. It is nothing new that Hoksrud and his party do not want to listen to expert reports, since they often put FrP’s miserable environmental policy in a bad light, but the numbers’ speech is as usual clear; This is a thorough report that highlights major opportunities for emission reductions.
She notes that Bård Hoksrud calls for other measures to be considered as well.
– This report is specifically about zero emission zones, but we are always open to more measures that can cut emissions, so Hoksrud only has to say no if he has any good ideas, Stav says.
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– Most concerned about gasoline prices
Stave, however, gives Hoksrud the right that politics influences people’s behavior.
– That’s the whole point. When more people switch to public transport, walking and cycling, and those who have to drive switch to electric cars, emissions fall and the city becomes more pleasant and more accessible for everyone. Then, of course, there will be some exceptions so that the zero-emission zone does not have an unreasonable effect, Stav says.
She believes that online shopping is inexorably competing with the shops, but points out that an overwhelming majority of those who shop in the city center come by public transport and bicycle, or on foot.
By creating a city adapted for this group, it will still be very attractive to run small shops, restaurants and cultural life in the center of Oslo, she points out.
– I further register that FrP and Bård Hoksrud are more concerned about the price of petrol, than about climate change. In recent weeks we have seen horror examples of heat waves in several places in the world. People die, crops are lost, large forests burn. It is urgent to address this, and all effective measures must be used, says Stav and continues:
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– People all over the world are doing what they can to stop the development before it is too late, even if short-term politicians like Hoksrud and his peers oppose it. We in Oslo will do our part, and zero emission zones are part of the solution.
This is what the Climate Agency says
The Climate Agency informs Dagbladet that zero-emission zones are one of several measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport in Oslo.
– The introduction of zero-emission zones is being investigated by the Urban Environment Agency in collaboration with the Climate Agency. In the order for the report, the plan is to introduce a zero emission zone for all light vehicles within the car-free urban life area during 2022, for all vehicles in the car-free urban life area in 2023 and for all vehicles within ring 2 in 2026.
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In this report, Norconsult has calculated the possible effects of a zero-emission zone on traffic work (number of vehicle kilometers) with fossil-powered vehicles and the effect on CO emissions from transport. The report has been commissioned by the Climate Agency in connection with the work on the climate budget for 2022. During the autumn of 2021, a traffic analysis and further calculations of the climate effect of the various concepts for the zero-emission zone will be carried out. The report that is now available will therefore have to be regarded as a preliminary estimate, the Climate Agency writes in an e-mail to Dagbladet.
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