Monday, April 12, 2021

 


Small Country With  Great Goal

                                                         Nowadays global warming is a very hot subject in the world and every country is fixing its target for controlling the emission of carbon. However, there is more talk and less action in the matter as developed and developing countries do not want to stop their industrial progress. Their industrial productions depend upon coal-oriented plants. Besides that their transportation systems mainly depend upon Diesel and Petrol which vomit out lots of pollutions.



                                                        Norway is one small country which achieved their carbon emission control target very well without making much noise. It is situated near the North Pole where the Sun comes out at Midnight. It has a population of about five million. Norway sold 50% of battery-driven vehicles in the year 2020. One will be surprised to note that in the year 2015 the Market for diesel and petrol-driven Vehicles was 71%. This is done by the Norway government by subsidizing battery charging stations. Besides, the government imposed taxes on petrol and diesel. Today Norway is having the highest number of battery-driven vehicles per head in the world.



                                                      This does not mean that Norway is short of diesel and petrol because it has a very large number of oil fields.  It earns a very large amount of foriegan exchange through exporting crude oil. Hence the Norwey's per head income is also the highest in Europe. 

                                                     Norway wants to reduce carbon emission to 40% by the year 2030. In short, if there is a will there is a way for everything. 

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