A Regional Climate Policy for Northeast Iceland

In September 2025, work continued for making an action based Climate Policy for Northeast Iceland. All 10 municipalities appointed a representative to take part in this work. The aim was to set focus on few, clear and efficient actions for the municipalities to carry out in the next two years. After that time, all the actions in the Climate Policy will be revised and updated with new actions. All actions are categorised into three groups; energy, landuse and waste. Later the work will also include actions in climate adoption.

The Climate Policy has been created and a set of actions been prioratised. Currently, the Policy is in an approval process amongst the municipalites.

The biggest opportunities for the region to reduce it‘s climate footprint lie in projects that restore wetlands, close landfills and create a sustainable transportation system.

Iceland‘s national goal is to reduce climate emissions by 50-55% before 2035 and to reach Climate neutrality by 2040. The Regional Climate Policy for Northeast Iceland has adopted these goals and aims for the same success.