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"Of all the peoples of Europe, Icelanders leave the largest CO2 footprint per person in terms of pollution, RÚV reports. This footprint comes mainly from the increase in air traffic and shipping since 2012. Environment Minister Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson described the problem as the biggest challenge of the 21st century, which must be taken very seriously. Iceland does not want to be at the top of this list." This is reported by Dagmar Trodler in an article published by Iceland Review on 7 November. "Information on the carbon footprint had been published on the Statistical Office's website, here it can be read that Iceland produced the most carbon dioxide per person within the EU and EFTA region in 2016, with 16.9 tonnes of CO2. Since 2008, Iceland had been in third and fourth place on the list, but now the country has reached first place, followed by Luxembourg, Denmark and Estonia. Overall, within the EU, CO2 emissions per person have decreased." It is important to note that these figures are from 2016 and have probably deteriorated further in the meantime due to the further increase in tourism with the associated air traffic. The metal processing industry, which mainly uses carbon as a catalyst and thus produces the largest single CO2 emission, has not changed in the last 2 years, and also partly uses trees grown in Iceland for this purpose. Things look better when it comes to emissions from households: Iceland ranks 9th to 11th compared to countries in the EU or EFTA. This figure could be much better if more Icelanders would swap their smelly petrol or diesel car for a modern electric car. But in that respect, we are definitely on the right track.
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Here you can see well what I mean by erosion threatening the vegetation in Iceland: A few days ago, on 24 April, it was once again quite stormy on the south coast, in the area where the Fellsmörk project is located. From the large sandy areas of Mýrdalssandur and Meðallandssandur in southeast Iceland, it blows the earth several hundred kilometres out into the Atlantic, as you can see in this satellite photo from NASA. Not at all unusual in Iceland, says geologist Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir from the University of Iceland, reports mbl.is.
Today the trial version of the Acuparia website went online for the first time. News later.
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