The City of Oslo has started a pilot on zero emission in construction vehicles and machinery through public procurement. To initiate market development, there has been organised a broad dialogue with stakeholders aiming at developing a market for zero emission construction vehicles and machinery. The pilot is promising, showing zero emission construction to be possible, with relatively low additional costs. This will be required in the City`s procurements.

In 2008, the City Council decided to phase out oil-fired heating in all municipal buildings, by 2012. 180 municipal buildings have converted to renewable energy, and emissions have been reduced from approximately 7200 tons of CO2 in 2009, to 600 tons in 2015. Since 2008 approximately 1500 oil-fired boilers, equivalent to 80 000 tons of CO2 in private buildings have been replaced by renewable energy through grants or loans from the municipal Climate and Energy Fund. The support scheme has contributed to a significant drop in emissions, working along with a national support scheme, communication measures, adaption to a warned ban on fossil fuel used for heating in 2020.

Oslo is continuously improving its circular systems in order to make the most out of our resources. The City administration wishes to promote innovation and new jobs in the circular economy. Therefore Oslo is currently working to develop strategies on sustainable consumption and waste reduction. The ultimate goal is to minimise consumption and increase use of sustainable materials and re-use.
At the moment Oslo is piloting a new program on re-use of ICT equipment and furniture. This is done through collaboration with firms, which mainly employ people with disabilities or undergoing occupational rehabilitation. The equipment is handed off free of charge and being repaired and re-used. The pilot represents a triple bottom line. It contributes to the environment by keeping resources in the loop and reducing demand for new products. It contributes to the society by giving jobs to people falling outside of ordinary work life. And it aims at providing functional and more affordable products to those who need them, for instance schools and youth centers.

The City of Oslo is at the forefront of circular use of available resources, like using bio waste and city sewage for biogas production, fueling city buses and waste trucks. Waste no longer reaches an endpoint, but is a resource to exploit. The core of the waste management system is an extensive system of source separation where the citizens work together with high-tech machinery to ensure high recycling rates. All waste becomes raw material either in the production of new products such as new plastic products, bio methane, and bio fertiliser or as heat and electrical power. Food waste, garden waste and sewage become biogas, soil-products and bio-fertilisers.