00:00I'm happy to welcome you all to Copenhagen and look forward to show you
00:03what works in Copenhagen when it comes to transform your city to be green and
00:07livable. Welcome to Copenhagen!
00:31We have a very ambitious climate plan here in my city. We want to become the
00:35first carbon neutral capital city by 2025. It's very ambitious but I'm glad to
00:40tell you that we are well on our way. We have already reduced our carbon
00:44emissions with 42 percent since 2005 and until 2014. Today we have a growing
00:51population. The number of citizens have grown with 20 percent since the 1st of
00:56January 2010 and you can see even that we have had a growing population in the
01:01city. We have cut down carbon emissions with more than 40 percent so it makes it
01:07amazing and Copenhagen is a front-runner when it comes to make your city more
01:13more climate friendly, more sustainable and we have done that
01:19together with the citizens, with the Copenhageners, because our bicycle
01:23infrastructure is a very good example. We have invested a lot in bicycle
01:27infrastructure over the last two decades and now 60 percent, more than 60 percent
01:32of the Copenhageners use the bike for daily transportation. That's a fantastic
01:37result of a concrete policy where City Hall want to change the situation where
01:43where the car was going to be king in the city. Today the bicycle is king in
01:48Copenhagen. We have a long tradition in Denmark and in Copenhagen for using
01:53energy out of waste. We produce heat, we are recycling a lot of our waste and we are
01:59going to recycle much much more of our waste in the years to come. We are
02:04introducing a lot of new sustainable solutions in my city. One of the big ones
02:11was to make Copenhagen complete with district heating. 99 percent of all
02:18households in Copenhagen are linked to our very efficient district heating
02:22system and then we can make our completely heating system CO2 neutral. We
02:28also introduced new technology like district cooling where we take the cold
02:32out of the water in our harbour and distribute the cold in pipes beside the
02:36district heating pipes so you can cool down buildings and you can reduce
02:40electricity used for cooling down buildings with 70 percent. It makes sense.
02:45It makes it also better life but it also makes it cheaper for the citizens and
02:50for the factory in the city. We also want to use more more carbon-friendly
02:56products. We have decided a food policy where 98 percent of all the food
03:01produced in the public kitchen should be organic and I'm glad to tell you that
03:06today we are very close to our target. 97 percent of the food in our public
03:13kitchens are organic and now we also want to to reduce the climate footprint
03:19of our food in the city. So step by step we change the behavior, the way of life
03:26and we learn our kids to go in the right direction because in Copenhagen kids
03:30learn to bike when they start kindergarten with their parents and when
03:34they start school they can go by bike themselves, learn to eat carbon-friendly
03:39food in the kindergarten and they hopefully they will do the same when
03:43they go to school and and when they have left school they have learned to
03:47have a kitchen where they produce carbon-friendly food in the kitchen. So
03:52that's how we do it in Copenhagen. We want the people to be a part of the
03:56green transformation.
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