Green impact of Norway's transport sector revealed

Publication date: 06 July 2009

Greenhouse gas emissions from transport have risen more sharply in Norway than across the EU, reaching 40% above 1990 levels in 2007, according to a report on the green impacts of transport published by the national statistics office (SSB) on Friday.

Road traffic now accounts for 58% of greenhouse gas emissions from mobile sources in Norway, and 19% of the country's overall emissions, say the authors. Demand for passenger cars has risen more than tenfold since 1960.

Norway's annual rate of increase in freight transport demand in 2007 was less than a third of the EU average at 1.2%. Ships and boats are the country's largest source of nitrogen oxide emissions, which have shown a generally downward trend since the late 1980s

Report in Norwegian (Abstract in English; please see pages 11 to 15)

Source: ENDS