{"id":13861,"date":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/hafnarfjardarbaer-kolefnisjafnar-rekstur-sveitarfelagsins\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:01:46","slug":"hafnarfjordur-carbon-neutralises-the-municipalitys-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/hafnarfjardarbaer-kolefnisjafnar-rekstur-sveitarfelagsins\/","title":{"rendered":"8,900 trees planted for the 2018 financial year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur carbon-offsets the municipality's operations, the first of Icelandic municipalities. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur today signed an agreement with Kolvi\u00f0 for the carbon offsetting of its operations. The project covers all of the municipality's institutions, around 70 in total. At the beginning of the year, the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur entered into an agreement with the company Klappir Gr\u00e6nar lausnir hf. for the implementation of an environmental management software system that compiles important information from its operations into a carbon account, including total consumption of hot water, electricity and oil. These factors have the greatest impact on the municipality's carbon footprint, along with waste collection.<\/p>\n

The figures for the 2018 financial year are now available, and this agreement concerns the carbon offsetting for 2018, with the understanding that the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's operations will be carbon-offset going forward. \u201eWe at Kolvi\u00f0 welcome the partnership on carbon offsetting with the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, which with this step truly demonstrates social responsibility in action. There are many aspects of local authority operations that release carbon dioxide which need to be reduced and carbon-offset, just as the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is now doing,\u201c says <\/em>Reynir Kristinsson, Chairman of Kolvi\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n

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Mayor R\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir and Reynir Kristinsson, chairman of Kolvi\u00f0ur, here sign an agreement on the municipality's carbon offsetting.<\/sup><\/p>\n

According to the 2018 carbon accounting for the Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, the carbon footprint of the municipality's operations was around 890 tonnes of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the carbon sequestration of planting 8,900 trees. At the same time, the municipality is working hard to implement measures aimed at reducing its carbon footprint for the future, which are set out in its environmental and resource policy published in May 2018. The City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has for some time placed great emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its operations.<\/p>\n

\u201eWe are very aware of the responsibility for climate issues that rests on us as a local authority. Our municipality is large and growing, and it is our obvious duty to take this step and thereby encourage other municipalities, government agencies and businesses to do the same. This agreement marks a milestone for the municipality. We must be a positive example in this matter and immediately do everything we can to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible. We have been working proactively and systematically to reduce our carbon footprint and will continue to do so without hesitation.\u201c <\/em>says R\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir, Mayor of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, at the signing of an agreement this morning, which took place at the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Forestry Association. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r kolefnisjafnar rekstur sveitarf\u00e9lagins, fyrst \u00edslenskra sveitarf\u00e9laga.  Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r undirrita\u00f0i \u00ed dag samning vi\u00f0 Kolvi\u00f0 um kolefnisj\u00f6fnun \u00e1 rekstri Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar og n\u00e6r verkefni\u00f0 til allra stofnana sveitarf\u00e9lagins sem eru um 70 talsins. \u00cd upphafi \u00e1rs samdi Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r vi\u00f0 fyrirt\u00e6ki\u00f0 Klappir Gr\u00e6nar lausnir hf. um uppsetningu \u00e1 umhverfisstj\u00f3rnunarhugb\u00fana\u00f0i sem safnar saman \u00ed kolefnisb\u00f3khald mikilv\u00e6gum uppl\u00fdsingum \u00far rekstrinum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}