CO2 — Aðgerðaáætlun í loftslagsmálum

Requires: Tier 0 (core).

Iceland's climate action plan tracker, covering every numbered action through 2035. Published at co2.is by Umhverfis-, orku- og loftslagsráðuneytið.

Each action has a title, goal, start/end years, status, and responsible ministry. The tracker is the primary public accountability mechanism for Iceland's nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement.

Taxonomy

Four-level hierarchy; actions are coded <Kerfi>.<Málaflokkur>.<Viðfangsefni>.<Index>.

Level	Example	Meaning
Kerfi (system)	S	One of four accounting systems
Málaflokkur	S.5	Sub-sector
Viðfangsefni (focus area)	S.5.C	Specific target
Aðgerð (action)	S.5.C.1	Individual measure (catalog row)

Kerfi

Code	Kerfi	Meaning	Actions (2026-04)
S	Samfélagslosun	Community emissions (covered by Iceland's EU effort-sharing commitment)	61
V	Viðskiptakerfi	ETS — EU emissions-trading system sectors (stationary industry, aviation, maritime)	9
L	Landnotkun	Land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF)	12
Þ	Þverlægar aðgerðir	Cross-cutting actions (financial incentives, social)	24
Total			106

Architecture

Webflow-hosted SPA-ish site (static HTML output from Webflow CMS) at co2.is. The action catalog lives on /allar-adgerdir, which references 32 viðfangsefni pages (/adgerdir/<slug>). Each viðfangsefni page contains 1–11 individual action accordion blocks. The scraper discovers all 32 slugs from /allar-adgerdir then crawls each.

No API, no JSON endpoint — all data is rendered server-side into the HTML. Regex parsing of the Webflow accordion blocks is the reliable path.

Accordion block structure

Each action block has:

<div id="s5c1" class="adgerd-accordion">
  ...
  <h3 class="title-6">Full orkuskipti ríkisflota og samgönguþjónustu fyrir 2030</h3>
  <p class="text-small">Ríkið sé fyrirmynd í innkaupum hreinorkuökutækja ...</p>
  <div class="label-big strong">Markmið aðgerðar</div>
  <div class="text-small">Full orkuskipti ríkisflota ...</div>
  <div class="label-big strong">Upphaf /&nbsp;Endir</div>
  <div class="adgerd-meta-dates">
    <div class="text-small">2023</div><div>–</div><div class="text-small">2030</div>
  </div>
  <div class="label-big strong">Staða aðgerðar</div>
  <div status-color="Í framkvæmd" class="status-color"></div>
  <div class="label-big strong">Ábyrgðaraðili</div>
  <div class="text-small">Fjármála- og efnahagsráðuneyti</div>
</div>

The status-color attribute on the status marker is the authoritative status string (avoids ambiguity when the label is truncated for layout).

Status vocabulary

Status	Meaning	Color on the site
Lokið	Completed	Green
Í framkvæmd	In progress	Yellow
Samþykkt	Approved (not yet started)	Dark grey
Fyrirhugað	Planned	Light grey
Á hugmyndastigi	Conceptual	Very light grey

Usage

# Crawl all 32 viðfangsefni pages, write data/processed/co2_actions.csv
uv run python scripts/co2.py fetch

# List the catalog, optionally filtered
uv run python scripts/co2.py list
uv run python scripts/co2.py list --kerfi S
uv run python scripts/co2.py list --status "Í framkvæmd"
uv run python scripts/co2.py list --ministry Fjármála

Catalog schema

data/processed/co2_actions.csv:

Column	Description
code	Canonical action code (e.g. S.5.C.1)
id	Lowercase id from the HTML anchor (e.g. s5c1)
kerfi	S, V, L, or Þ
malaflokkur_nr	Second-level digit (1–7)
vidfangsefni_letter	Third-level letter (A–D)
action_idx	Action number within its viðfangsefni
vidfangsefni_slug	URL slug of the parent viðfangsefni
title	Short title
description	First-paragraph summary
markmid	Goal (Markmið aðgerðar)
upphaf	Start year (integer)
endir	End year (integer, blank if open-ended)
stada	Status enum (Lokið, Í framkvæmd, Samþykkt, Fyrirhugað, Á hugmyndastigi)
abyrgdaradili	Responsible ministry / ministries (pipe-separated)
vidfangsefni_url	Source URL

Snapshot (2026-04-22 pull)

• 106 actions across 4 kerfi × ~30 viðfangsefni
• Status: 70 Í framkvæmd · 28 Fyrirhugað · 8 Samþykkt (no Lokið or Á hugmyndastigi yet)
• 75 actions have a fixed end year; 31 are open-ended (mostly ongoing regulatory measures)
• 10 ministries participate; most frequent are Umhverfis-, orku- og loftslagsráðuneytið and the sector ministries (Matvæla, Innviða, Fjármála)

Caveats

1. Count vs. hero. The site's hero text aggregates to 110 measures (58 + 14 + 30 + 8). The scraper finds 106; the 4-item gap may reflect rounding in the hero or a handful of measures that only appear under the /adlogun/ (adaptation plan) tree, which this skill does not yet scrape.
2. Open-ended dates. Many regulatory actions have a start year but no end year (they're "permanent"). endir is blank for those — don't default-fill with upphaf.
3. Icelandic special char in system code. Þ (þ/Thorn) is not ASCII; the URL slug prefix is th2b-…. The scraper maps th → Þ for the kerfi column so catalogs are human-readable; id keeps the ASCII prefix.
4. Non-breaking space in the "Upphaf / Endir" label. Webflow renders it as Upphaf / Endir (U+00A0 between / and Endir). The scraper normalises whitespace before matching.
5. Webflow class rotation. The site uses hand-authored class names (adgerd-accordion, label-big strong, adgerd-meta-dates) that appear stable, but CSS refactors could break the scraper. Re-save one viðfangsefni HTML and diff against the cached data/raw/co2/*.html to verify before blaming the regex.
6. No CO₂-ígildi target per action. The site shows aggregate CO₂ targets at the viðfangsefni and málaflokkur level but does not publish a per-action emissions-reduction figure. The scraper does not attempt to attribute aggregate targets to individual actions.
7. Aðlögunaráætlun (adaptation plan) not included. The site has a separate toggle for adaptation actions at /adlogun. Those are a distinct catalog (fewer actions, different vocabulary) and are out of scope for this skill.
8. Encoding. Webflow serves the page as UTF-8. Action titles, ministry names, and the kerfi letter Þ (Þvert á kerfi) all need UTF-8 handling. Watch the non-breaking space (U+00A0) in some Webflow labels — the parser normalises these to regular spaces.

Attribution

"Byggir á upplýsingum frá Umhverfis-, orku- og loftslagsráðuneytinu (co2.is)."

Related

• loftgaedi — real-time air-quality monitoring data
• rikisreikningur — state accounts (some CO₂ actions have funded line items visible there)
• heimsmarkmid — SDG 13 (Climate action) reporting