{"id":13742,"date":"2015-10-23T06:29:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13742"},"modified":"2015-10-23T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:29:21","slug":"because-the-time-for-climate-action-is-now-oslo-makes-landmark-move-to-ban-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13742","title":{"rendered":"Because the ‘Time for Climate Action Is Now,’ Oslo Makes Landmark Move to Ban Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because the ‘Time for Climate Action Is Now,’ Oslo Makes Landmark Move to Ban Cars<\/a><\/h3>\n
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‘The reduction in pollution will make the city even better to live in, and ensure that we take our global responsibility’<\/p>\n

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Pedestrians walk down a street in Oslo.\u00a0 (Photo:\u00a0Caleb Khor<\/a>\/flickr\/cc)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As part of a plan to rein in carbon emissions, Oslo’s new city council announced this week that the city’s center would be car-free by 2019.<\/p>\n

Ars Technica<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the move, which aims to help the city halve greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 levels, “will make Oslo the first European capital where cars are permanently banned, plus it’s a strong indicator that similar bans may be enacted in other major cities across the continent.”<\/p>\n

To make the shift, the Norwegian capital will boost its investment into public transportation and add roughly 37 miles (60 kilometers) of bike lanes,\u00a0Reuters<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a><\/p>\n

“The time for climate action is now, and the new city government will address climate change both locally and globally,” the\u00a0International Business Times<\/em>\u00a0quotes<\/a>\u00a0Lan Marie Nguyen Berg, of the Green Party in Oslo, as saying. “The reduction in pollution will make the city even better to live in, and ensure that we take our global responsibility.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0new coalition<\/a>\u00a0running the city, made up of the Labor Party, the Socialist Left, and the Greens, additionally\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that it would divest its pension fund from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

“Divestment,” Nguyen Berg added, “sends a strong message to the world prior to the\u00a0Climate Change Conference in Paris<\/a>\u00a0that we need a strong agreement that will ensure that we avoid dangerous global warming.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because the ‘Time for Climate Action Is Now,’ Oslo Makes Landmark Move to Ban Cars ‘The reduction in pollution will make the city even better to live in, and ensure that we take our global responsibility’ Pedestrians walk down a street in Oslo.\u00a0 (Photo:\u00a0Caleb Khor\/flickr\/cc) As part of a plan to rein in carbon emissions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10153,10154,113,141,7669,1241,10152,638],"class_list":["post-13742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-car","tag-car-ban","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-common-dreams","tag-norway","tag-oslo","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13743,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions\/13743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}