Oslo

Norway

Mission City Pilotby
Det nationale missionsøkosystem Norway
Oslo Mission City Label
Befolkning 710k
Byområde 310.7 km²
Byen har været aktiv siden June 2022

Oslo is the capital of Norway, and the country’s largest city with over 700,000 inhabitants. It is a compact city surrounded by the Oslo Fjord on its south side and the national protected forest «Marka» to its east, north and west. Oslo is a city in constant growth and transformation, and is one of Europe’s fastest growing cities. 

 

A well-developed public transportation system of under- and over-ground trains, buses, trams, and boats gives easy to access to the city and its surrounding region. The city center is easily covered on foot, and city bikes and bikelanes are available throughout Oslo. The city offers great connectivity to nature. This is a central Norwegian value which underlies Oslo’s aspiration to be a green capital and its aim to become a fossil free city by 2030.  The City has a parliamentary system of governance.

 

The City Government is responsible to the City Council in the same way that the National Government is responsible to the National Parliament. The City of Oslo holds both municipal and county functions. For information on how the City of Oslo engages citizens see the commitments document, and the section on inclusive practices in the AP. Oslo has a long history of ambitious climate policies, supported by city governments from different sides of the political spectrum. In 2016 Oslo launched it’s first Climate Budget.

 

In 2020 the City’s current Climate Strategy was adopted with broad support from parties across the political spectrum. Oslo’s CCC builds directly these and other governance processes that have been closely calibrated to fit the City’s democratic and political processes.  

Vigtigste erfaringer

Green Responsible Innovative Procurement - Oslo, Aachen, Kosice ECT activity

Cities across Europe are eager to use procurement as a strategic climate tool, but face barriers including legal complexity, limited resources, and low institutional capacity—especially in smaller cities. Although green procurement has proven climate benefits, it remains underused due to overly technically complex and lengthy tools and insufficient political prioritization. GRIP responds by uniting Oslo, Aachen, and Košice to co- develop a practical, accessible toolkit. GRIP also seeks to scale commitment across the NZC network, positioning procurement not just as an administrative task, but as a high-impact lever for accelerating climate neutrality. Objectives Build capacity for cities to embed green procurement into climate strategies Develop a toolkit based on the GRIP pilot experience Pilot green procurement models in Košice and Aachen Promote a shared political declaration on green procurement across EU cities Strengthen cross-city learning and collaboration Share evidence on the climate impact and co-benefits of procurement strategies ECT = Enabling City Transformation

Power Up a REnewable Society - Oslo pilot activity

Oslo has committed to a 95% reduction in emissions by 2030 — but existing policies get the city only to 70%. The remaining gap depends on electrifying construction sites, heavy-duty vehicles, and harbour operations. The constraint is not ambition but grid capacity: no significant new capacity is expected before 2030. PURE asks how Oslo can electrify faster than the grid can grow — through better energy management, flexibility, demand-side coordination, and cross-sector collaboration. The project produces practical guidelines for zero-emission construction (ZEMCON) and heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) charging, convenes a national industry platform, and distills lessons into EU policy recommendations.

City Mission Governance, Coordination and Integration

This report examines how mission governance supports city-level climate neutrality transitions across four European Mission Cities: Umeå, Oslo, Turku and Aachen. It focuses on the internal governance arrangements, coordination mechanisms, roles, mandates and institutional practices through which municipalities organise themselves to deliver ambitious climate-neutrality commitments. Across the four cases, mission governance is understood not as a single organisational model, but as a set of structures, routines and ways of working that connect long-term political commitments with everyday administrative practice, departmental implementation and wider city partnerships.

Scaling Zero-Emission Construction in Oslo

Cities are responsible for a large share of emissions, and construction activities are a significant contributor. To accelerate the transition toward climate-neutral urban development, Oslo received expert support to explore how zero-emission construction (ZEMCON) can be scaled across European cities. The initiative aimed to assess the environmental, economic, energysystem, and regulatory implications of adopting zero-emission construction practices. The work also examined the market readiness and policy frameworks required to enable implementation at city, national, and EU levels.   This project was supported by funding from the EU Cities Mission, provided through the City Expert Support Facility (CESF) of NetZeroCities.

Oslo: Governance, Procurement and Zero-Emission Solutions

Oslo, Norway’s capital and largest city, is positioning itself as a global leader in urban climate action with the goal of becoming fossil-free by 2030. Through pioneering tools like its climate budget, long-term climate strategy, and Climate City Contract, Oslo embeds emissions targets into core governance – already achieving over half of energy use in public works from zero-emission sources. This document was prepared in advance of the Group Study Visit to outline the practices to be shared.   This document was prepared in advance of the Group Study Visit to outline the practices to be shared

Oslo: Building Climate Resilience through Zero-Emission Construction Sites

This case studies highlights the work of Oslo to decarbonise the construction sector. 

Oslo Sustainable Procurement strategy

Oslo is committed to using procurement as a strategic tool to drive a transition to more sustainable production and consumption. In the decentralized procurement function this commitment is integrated at the top management level in all fifty agencies of the City of Oslo, and it is reflected in their Local Action Plans for the procurement activities. The aim is to use their market power to generate innovation and create markets for more sustainable products and services. For the City of Oslo sustainable procurement has been a prioritized area for several years. Responsible public procurement is one of the six sub-goals of the Procurement Strategy of the City of Oslo. The City is currently working on a revised Procurement Strategy that will be valid from 2017. They spend approximately 2 billion euro per year on procurement, which accounts to around 5 % of the national public procurement budget. This gives Oslo considerable buyer power and the way they use this power can make a difference. Furthermore, Oslo has been actively working to implement the Ten Principles on human rights, labour rights, environment and anti-corruption in the framework of the United Nations Global Compact since 2012. In addition, they also cooperate with other Nordic cities in a Network on Green Growth through Public Procurement financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Through these associations, Oslo was able to build a network through which the exchange of relevant information became possible. Author: City of Oslo, Katja Khardikova Category: City Procurement Policy Published/Created by: https://glcn-on-sp.org/cities/oslo/ Link: https://glcn-on-sp.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/SP_Profiles/City_of_Oslo_GLCN_on_SP_Profile.pdf

Climate budget: embedding cross-departmental responsibility for emissions in Oslo

Oslo was one of the first cities in the world to introduce a climate budget (CB) as an integral component of the municipal budget process. Since 2016 its annual CB has proposed a maximum emission ceiling just like the maximum economic expenditure of the fiscal budget, whose structure it shares.
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