Norway’s Emissions Fell Last Year on EV Boom, Metal Output Fall
Electric vehicles at charging stations near the financial district in Oslo.
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Norway’s emissions dropped 4.7% last year as more electric cars took to the roads and output from smelters and metal mills declined.
The release of climate warming gases has been falling since 2015 and totaled 46.6 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2023, compared to 48.9 million tonnes a year earlier, Statistics Norway said Friday. The highest emissions reported by the country since 1990 was in 2007 when output totaled 56.5 million tonnes.