{"id":13899,"date":"2019-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/graent-ljos-a-hafnarfjardarbae\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:01:54","slug":"green-light-on-the-harbour-fjord-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/graent-ljos-a-hafnarfjardarbae\/","title":{"rendered":"Green light for the City and Harbour of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and the Port of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur recently received the Green Light from Orkusalan, which confirms and certifies that the municipality and the port use 100% renewable electricity in their operations with origin guarantees in accordance with an international standard. This step and this certification are part of the municipality's green journey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the stated aims of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is to be at the forefront of sustainability and environmental matters, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the generation of waste. The municipality has taken environmental matters seriously and has, among other things, set itself the goal of significantly reducing pollution and waste generation through responsible procurement, consumption, and increased recycling. As such, this certification is another step towards the municipality's green future. Recently, the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur joined Gr\u00e6nni Bygg\u00f0 and simultaneously announced that environmentally certified development on purchased plots in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur will provide a discount of up to 30% off the plot price. In June, the municipality then signed an agreement with Kolvi\u00f0 on carbon offsetting for its operations, which involved planting 8,900 trees for the 2018 financial year. <em>\u201eIt is a great honour to receive the Green Light from the Energy Supplier, and it is another rose in the buttonhole of the council's green journey. We continue to take purposeful and confident steps towards a brighter and even greener future. We are a large municipality and bear a great responsibility in environmental and climate matters.\u201c <\/em>says R\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir, Mayor of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a green light?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The energy supplier makes it possible for all its customers to receive the so-called Green Light, where all electricity sales are certified 100% renewable with origin guarantees in accordance with an international standard. The purpose of the origin guarantee scheme is to increase the share of renewable energy in Europe, and the guarantees are used to meet the requirements of numerous international environmental labels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/media\/stefnur-og-reglur\/umhverfis-og-audlindastefna_final-web_lowres.pdf\/\" class=\"internal\">The council's environmental and resource policy can be found HERE<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r og Hafnarfjar\u00f0arh\u00f6fn fengu \u00e1 d\u00f6gunum Gr\u00e6na lj\u00f3si\u00f0 fr\u00e1 Orkus\u00f6lunni sem sta\u00f0festir og vottar a\u00f0 sveitarf\u00e9lagi\u00f0 og h\u00f6fnin nota \u00ed rekstri s\u00ednum 100% endurn\u00fdjanlega raforku me\u00f0 uppruna\u00e1byrg\u00f0um samkv\u00e6mt al\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0legum sta\u00f0li. \u00deetta skref og \u00feessi vottun er li\u00f0ur \u00ed gr\u00e6nni vegfer\u00f0 sveitarf\u00e9lagsins. Eitt af yfirl\u00fdstum markmi\u00f0um Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar er a\u00f0 vera \u00ed fararbroddi \u00ed sj\u00e1lfb\u00e6rni og umhverfism\u00e1lum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899","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=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}