Lørenskog Municipality
Norway Mayor: Ragnhild Bergheim-
Population 33308
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Area 70.0km 2
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GDP N/AN/A
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Targets by N/A N/Aemission
- Buildings
Co-operation partially established with Ruter, NSB and major local businesses
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- Facilities
As of May 2011, there are 20 recovery sites in Lørenskog. Ongoing effort to establish more sites
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- Preventing loss of carbon from arable soil and biomass
- Increasing carbon sequestration through reforestation efforts
- Reduced tillage and increased use of perennial cultures
- Increasing carbon sequestration in soil by conversion to perennial cultures
- Climate / energy conferences for businesses (May 2011: No conferences)
- Joint climate / energy projects (May 2011: Initial contact with two potential partners)
- Encourage environmental certification (May 2011: Ongoing efforts through free certifications)
- Prepare report with environmental information
- Involve NGOs in information and awareness-raising
Ongoing: The program is running and teachers are now able to report results online
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Environmental requirements should apply to products, services, providers, etc.
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As of May 2011, sorting of plastic and organic waste is under development
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- Buildings
- Facilities
- Buildings
- Continuously consider training of employees on environmental topics
- Focus on knowledge transfer
- Focus on environment in HSE examinations
- Other Emissions
The municipality has started to use EOS (Software for energy control / management)
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ongoing
- New routines for maintenance of footpaths and bike lanes (Completed during 2011?)
- Bike lane inspections - improvement of damages (completed during 2011?)
- Bike parking requirements are complied with in all land planning
- Transport
not initiated yet:
planning to Initiate pilot study
- Establish co-operation with other municipalities / local farmers
- Utilization of landfill gas at local refuse tip
- Waste
Number of cars with magnetic technology: 5 trucks, 5 machines, 10 vans
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Different measures taken, including:
- Need to enter personal code to print (completed 2011)
- Automatic cancelation if the print is not picked up (completed 2011),
- "Think about the environment before printing"-text in all email-signatures (completed 2010)
- Waste
All drivers of municipal vehicles at the operation office was involved in the training
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- Buildings
- Buildings
ongoing: - Reduce emissions from fertilizer production
- Reduce emissions from livestock and manure storage
- Waste
Continuous set up of management systems for to promote energy savings
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- Human health
Installed stand-by power unit in all municipal nursing homes and in the city hall
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ongoing continous. - All relevant service lines contributes to yearly updates on environmental / climate work
- Cooperation with neighboring municipalities and county councils have been established, and environmental reporting is one of the issues we are working with.
- Human health
Ongoing.
- Monitoring of water quality in river systems
- Upgrading of warning system for overflow
- Reclaim system of transmission lines and separate wastewater and surface water
- Inspection of buildings, secure against damages from snow
- Ensure that roofs are swept in case of large snowfalls
- Quick clay mapping in development projects in clay soil areas
- Analysis of sewage network, culverts and bridges
- Measurement of precipitation
- Evaluate flood mitigation measures such as box dams and aquatic parks
- Develop simple solutions for stormwater handling
- Requirements for retention of stormwater in the development of larger buildings
Mayor Ragnhild BergheimLørenskog Municipality, Norway
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