• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: Completed

Municipality is part owner in a waste company that focuses on solwing waste problems in a environmentally friendly way. High degree of recycling.

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• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status:

NOT STARTED. introducing ICLEIs eco budget in the municipalitys economy reports

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

Partially finished. Emissions from transport by 14 % (2011) so far.

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Fiscal / Financial mechanism
• Status: In operation

In order to make Arendal climate neutral, all emissions need to be compensated for through buying climate quotas

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: Completed

Established a network with focus on climate, energy and social responsibility. Goal to increase local and regional businesses competense.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Cancelled - lack of funding.

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate gave lisense for district heating develpoment i 2008, supposed to be finished no later than 2015.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Regulatory
• Status: Completed

Municipality will from 2008 be climate neutral. This means that they have guarantee of origin on all electricity that the govenment buys, and that the emissions from the municipality administration will be compensated for

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: Completed

The leaders and the politicians in the municipality will be climate leaders. decision to be a climate neutral municipality.

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

Fartially finished. Putting requirements on are purchases. The municipality is member of a control organisation "Grønt punkt". 15-20% of the food at the municipality kitchens is ecological.

• Start year: 2050
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status:

Assessment for better and more modern public transportation. NOT STARTED. two hybrid bysses introduced.

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: Completed

Pilot Teaching program in three schools.

• Start year:
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status:

NOT STARTED

• Start year:
• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

"Eco lighthouse" is a certification scheme that goes through services and products influence on the environment and the work environment.

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

Ongoing - Buildings owned and run by the Municipality are to save 20 % energy use by 2020.

• Start year: 2009
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

Ongoing project to increase energy efficiency in governmental buildings

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status: Completed

Municipality have started their own anual climate accounting

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The proposal shows 8 main routes and 35 local routes. Goal is to increas biking traffic in Arendal from 5% to 10% of all traffic.
Will fascilitate safer roads to schools, so that 80 % of the children can ride bikes or walk to school.

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: Completed

• Start year: 2005
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

Practically finished. 1 boiler left, will be phased out in 2013

• Start year:
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status:

NOT STARTED. Citizen acces to good and updated information about climate, environment and energy related questions

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Regulatory
• Status: In operation

Ongoing requirement for energy reports in larger building projects