Here’s a challenge!  

Juneau was the first port in the world to provide shore power for a cruise ship.  But only one can hook up at a time, and now is the time to expand our capacity.

The Port of Oslo’s 17-point climate action plan includes refitting ferry boats, implementing a low-carbon contracting process, and installing shore power, which would allow boats to cut their engines and plug into the grid when docked.

The effort is part of the city’s mandate to cut overall emissions by 95 percent by 2030. A handful of other ports around the world for instance, Los Angeles and Long Beach, Auckland, the Spanish city of Valencia, Ecuador’s Guayaquil, and Baku in Azerbaijan, also have carbon-neutral and zero-emission dreams.

By 2030, the port aims to make an 85 percent reduction in its emissions of carbon dioxide, sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide, and particulate matter, with the goal of becoming the world’s first zero-emissions port.

“It’s very ambitious, but at the same time it’s what is necessary if we are going to reach the Paris Agreement,” says Heidi Neilson, head of environment for the Port of Oslo.

Source: Oslo wants to build the world’s first zero-emissions port | Grist