Copenhagen’s Climate Plan To Be The World’s Number 1 Clean City
Copenhagen’s Climate Plan has an ambitious target of making the city carbon neutral by 2025, making it the world’s first city to achieve this and the world’s greenest city!
With a population of over a million, Copenhagen faces the same challenges as every city when aiming to provide a sustainable future with a increasing population. With a CO2 consumption currently at 2.5 million tonnes, the aim is to bring the number to 1.2 million in the next 10 years.
Making a Change
With air pollution causing respiratory problems and well publicised links to diseases and global warming worldwide, Copenhagen aims to set the trend in being a zero emissions city within a decade, meaning a safer environment for its inhabitants and combatting global warming on behalf of everyone.
Scandinavia has been leading the way in Europe for a while already with several ‘clean cities’ such as neighbouring Malmo and Stockholm in Sweden, but now Copenhagen has set its sights on acheiving not just a cleaner city, but one that has zero carbon monoxide emissions.
How The City Plans to Become Greener
The plan is in four parts: Energy Consumption, Energy, Mobility and City Administration.
Support of Local People
It’s an ambitious plan to eliminate carbon monoxide emissions altogether by 2025. This means huge changes in industry and transport in only a decade, and the cooperation of all the inhabitants. Luckily Danes are great at supporting ‘green thinking’ and most of the city is eagerly behind the plan, supporting the changes that have been planned over the next ten years. There will also be lower electricity bills, warmer houses and better public transport!
At Copenhagen Downtown Hostel we are working on our own sustainability project, and help to re-use and recycle too. Good luck to the city in this challenge - we support the plan and look forward to a greener city!
Find out more at C40 Cities
Copenhagen’s Climate Plan has an ambitious target of making the city carbon neutral by 2025, making it the world’s first city to achieve this and the world’s greenest city!
With a population of over a million, Copenhagen faces the same challenges as every city when aiming to provide a sustainable future with a increasing population. With a CO2 consumption currently at 2.5 million tonnes, the aim is to bring the number to 1.2 million in the next 10 years.
Making a Change
With air pollution causing respiratory problems and well publicised links to diseases and global warming worldwide, Copenhagen aims to set the trend in being a zero emissions city within a decade, meaning a safer environment for its inhabitants and combatting global warming on behalf of everyone.
Scandinavia has been leading the way in Europe for a while already with several ‘clean cities’ such as neighbouring Malmo and Stockholm in Sweden, but now Copenhagen has set its sights on acheiving not just a cleaner city, but one that has zero carbon monoxide emissions.
How The City Plans to Become Greener
The plan is in four parts: Energy Consumption, Energy, Mobility and City Administration.
- Older buildings which account for 75% of the CO2 emissions will be made more efficient city wide.
- Bicycle Superhighways will be made to connect districts further out of town and encourage more people to cycle (yes, even more!)
- Wind farms will be created all over the city
- Seawater will be used in cooling plants - all heating and cooling is to be carbon neutral.
- Public transport will be improved, so 75% of people use either public transport of bicycles rather than cars. Currently it’s 36%
- Street lighting will be reduced 50%
- All the city’s electricity will be from renewable sources!
Support of Local People
It’s an ambitious plan to eliminate carbon monoxide emissions altogether by 2025. This means huge changes in industry and transport in only a decade, and the cooperation of all the inhabitants. Luckily Danes are great at supporting ‘green thinking’ and most of the city is eagerly behind the plan, supporting the changes that have been planned over the next ten years. There will also be lower electricity bills, warmer houses and better public transport!
At Copenhagen Downtown Hostel we are working on our own sustainability project, and help to re-use and recycle too. Good luck to the city in this challenge - we support the plan and look forward to a greener city!
Find out more at C40 Cities