Sustaineble and Green

Aliquam SUSTAINABLE “GREEN” COPENHAGEN
If interested in seeing some of the best solutions for making a city green and livable, and on how to cope with the challenges of climate change, this tour might be for you.
Copenhagen actively pursues an ambitious green political agenda and wishes to be CO2 neutral by 2025. The tremendous cost of two major storms with huge inundations, made the need for urgent and substantive action self-evident. This is about re-organizing a city in a sustainable way.
A GREEN, LIVABLE CITY WITH A SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
This tour explains Denmark’s vision for the “greening of a city” and presents specific actions that contribute to making the city physically more sustainable as well as a nicer place to live.
This is about policies for reducing pollution from cars by stimulating the use of bicycles, lowering energy consumption by making buildings more efficient, cooling offices with cold water from the harbor, developing a district heating system that relies on waste incineration etc. While rules for new construction are very demanding in terms of energy and resource efficiency, the old buildings are also being renovated systematically, and definitely when owners change.
But it is also about: making public spaces nicer and more livable in everyday life, while simultaneously being designed as reservoirs to be used in case of floods. It is about turning former parking lots into “people spaces” and about cleaning up the harbor so that the waterfront and the sea become part of the living space, to be used for swimming or just the perfect backdrop for leisure. The tour aims to present a number of solutions to some “technical challenges” which have made city life more attractive.