5 lessons on building an emissions-free city | Heidi Sørensen

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Confronting climate change makes for better cities and a better quality of life, says Heidi Sørensen, director of the climate agency for the city of Oslo, Norway. From construction sites without noise pollution to fully electric transportation, she details the exciting green transition happening in her city. The Norwegian capital's ambitious goal of reducing 95 percent of its carbon emissions by 2030 is driven by a unique policy approach: a world-first carbon budget, which works side by side with the financial budget and clearly states what needs to be done, by whom and when for the city to reach its climate goals. She shares five crucial lessons Oslo has learned along the way to creating a better city for everyone -- and what it could mean for the rest of the world.

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0:00.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:07.2	Oslo Norway is on its way to becoming an emissions-free city.
0:12.6	In her 2022 talk from the Ted Countdown London session, climate bureaucrat Heidi Sorensen
0:17.8	sheds light on how the city is doing it in creative ways and connects Oslo's ambitious
0:23.8	work to a better way of life for its people.
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0:36.1	On this show, we talk to some of the world's most interesting people.
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0:45.8	feel, or hear, but animals can.
0:49.0	These haunting, bizarre, sometimes ethereal noises are just cascading throughout all the
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1:02.8	Hello, let me start by showing you a construction site in my home city of Oslo.
1:28.2	Did you hear something unusual?
1:30.4	Indeed, the noise.
1:32.3	The noise you hear was from the kindergarten nearby, not from the machineways.
1:36.8	The machines were electric and so were the trucks that transport materials to and from
1:42.2	the site.
1:43.2	As head of the climate agency in Oslo, the cluster and a construction site is a climate
1:49.2	measure I'm really excited about.
1:53.4	The workers here are opening a stream that has been confined in pipelines for more than
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