RE city in the hearth of Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve.
In 1999, the executive committee of Kristianstad municipality unanimously decided to declare its will to become a Fossil Fuel Free Municipality. The reduction of fossil fuels is to be achieved primarily by the use of bio-fuels, both biomass as fuel for heating and production of electricity and biogas as fuel for local buses and other vehicles. Other activities are efforts in the field of energy efficiency and changes in behaviour patterns. Community planning is an important instrument to promote a Fossil Fuel Free municipality. The municipality is renewing its Energy Programme to fulfil the declaration to become a Fossil Fuel Free municipality.
The aim of the project, Fossil Fuel Free Municipality, is to reduce the release of fossil fuels. The reduction of fossil fuels is to be achieved primarily by the use of bio-fuels, both biomass for heat and electricity production and biogas as fuel for local buses and other vehicles. Other activities are efforts in the field of energy efficiency and changes in behaviour patterns. Community planning is an important instrument to promote a Fossil Fuel Free municipality.
Community planning is an important instrument to promote a Fossil Fuel Free municipality. The target audience is all sectors of the society, for example companies, households, children etc.
The yearly CO2-emissons have been reduced by 123 000 tonnes. One conclusion that can be drawn is that it is easier to reduce the emissions from the heating sector than from transports.
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