Magne Sandnes of Oslo city’s Omsorgsbygg group inspects a tank containing biofuels on a fossil fuel free demolition site in Oslo, Norway October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Alister Doyle
OSLO (Reuters) - Cities from Oslo to Sydney are setting goals to curb climate change that exceed national targets, causing tensions with central governments about who controls policy over green energy and transport and construction.
More than 2,500 cities have issued plans to cut carbon emissions to the United Nations since late 2014, setting an example to almost 200 nations that reached a Paris Agreement in December 2015 to fight global warming.
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