| name | co2 |
| description | Iceland's climate action plan (co2.is) — 106 numbered actions with status, ministry, start/end years. |
CO2 — Aðgerðaáætlun í loftslagsmálum
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 / 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
uv run python scripts/co2.py fetch
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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