Sustainability in Iceland

1. Sustainability in Iceland Axel Örn Sæmundsson. Iceland

2. Icelanders produce lot of our products on our own. For example we have these categories • Milk products • Meat products • Vegetables • Fish products • Water

3. Milk products • Production of milk in Iceland takes place in the south and north coast of Iceland • Example of Icelandic milk products are milk, cheese and yogurt • Price of one kilogram of Icelandic cheese is 1498 Icelandic krona. But the kilogram price on Norwegian cheese is 1619 Icelandic krona. • One liter of Icelandic milk costs 126 krona, but Norwegian is 274 Icelandic krona.

4. Milk products

5. Milk products • Us Icelanders could easily live on our own production of milk products. • We almost do not import any milk products but we do though import small amount of cheese from Europe. • Therefore I would say that we aresustainable for milk products.

6. Meat products • Productivity of Icelandic meat takes place all over Iceland. • Example of meat us Icelanders produce are pork, beef, chicken and lamb • Kilogram price of Icelandic beef-fille is 4398 Icelandic krona. But kilogram price of Norwegian beef-fille is 3760 Icelandic krona. • Whole Icelandic chicken costs 859 krona per kilogram, but Norwegian whole chicken costs 263 per kilogram

7. Meat products

8. Meat products • Us Icelanders import that much of meat that we could not live on our own production of meat except for lamb • We import a lot of chicken, pork and beef. • Therefore i would say that we are not sustainable for meat products

9. Vegetables • Productin of Icelandic vegetables mostly takes part in south coast of Iceland. • Example of vegetables which Icelanders produce are paprika, carrots, cabbage, cucumbers. • Kilogram price of Icelandic carrots is 598 Icelandic krona but of American carrots the kilogram price is 60 Icelandic krona.

10. Vegetables

11. Vegetables • We could probably not live on our own production of vegetables. • We import a lot of vegetables, but mostly from Europe and America. • Therefore I would say that Iceland is not sustainable for vegetables.

12. Fish products • Production or working of fish mostly takes part in south coast of Iceland • Example of fish that we in Iceland produce or work are macerel, cod and salmon. • Kilogram price of Icelandic salmon is 2298 Icelandic krona but the kilogram price of American is 918 Icelandic krona. • Kilogram price of Icelandic cod is 1079 Icelandic krona but the kilogram price of American cod is 1424 Icelandic krona.

13. Fish products

14. Fish products • Iceland could easily live on our own production or working of fish because we do almost import no fish at all, we fish it our self. • Therefore i would say that Iceland is sustainable for fish production.

15. Water • Iceland has probably the best resources of water you can find in the world. • In most of countries in the world you can only drink water from water bottles, but in Iceland you can drink it straight away from the water crane.

16. Water

17. Water • Iceland can easily live on our own production of water • Therefore I would say that Iceland is probably the most sustainable country in the world for water.

18. Overall • Overall I would say that Iceland is not sustainable enough to live on our own products only. Thank you