Iceland’s Eco-Friendly Goal Falls Short In 2008

by Darren

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Iceland had a very bold plan for 2008. They had said they wanted fully 10% of all government owned cars to be fueled by eco-friendly fuels, but in reality, they fell well short of the goal at 1.5% by year’s end.

According to the government’s goal, 20 percent of state-run vehicles should be powered by eco-friendly fuel by 2010 and 35 percent by 2012, Fréttabladid reports.

Only one company that is owned by the state comes close to achieving this goal. At Pósturinn, the national postal service, ten out of 126 vehicles are eco-friendly, around eight percent.

“It is unfortunately far too common that the government makes lofty goals, especially on environment issues, but when the time comes to execute them they end up not having much in the bank,” said Bergur Sigurdsson, managing director of the NGO Landvernd, the Icelandic Environment Association.

This is the case with many current political initiatives. The ideas are their, but the will to get them done seems weak. 2020 is approaching relatively fast, and Iceland is a long way away from their stated cuts of greenhouse gas emissions.

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