‘We have to pay the price’: Oslo’s plan to turn oil wealth into climate leadership

The mayor of the Norwegian capital argues that the moral' duty to cut emissions from burning waste can be met by carbon capture

The city of Oslo was built on wealth generated by the North Sea, which for decades has produced billions of barrels of oil and gas. But Oslo now hopes to lead Norway's transformation from one of the world's largest exporters of fossil fuels to a global green pioneer.

For Raymond Johansen, Oslo's governing mayor, helping to lead global efforts to tackle the climate crisis is both a pragmatic economic response to Norway's declining fossil fuel industries, and a moral obligation to provide solutions for a crisis it helped to create.