Smart cities

As the pace of urbanisation quickens, cities face immense challenges related to waste management, mobility, climate adaptation and energy. However, as their political, economic, and technological power grows, cities can harness this trend to act as leaders in the green transition and drivers of the green economy. Cities need smart solutions to ensure that they are optimised for sustainable economic activity, energy consumption, and an improved environmental impact.

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Integrating an intelligent and holistic approach to city planning and transportation management to create more sustainable cities

Our cities are growing and so are the challenges to make them liveable. It is estimated that 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. This increase in urbanisation demands an intelligent, holistic and integrated approach to city planning and transportation management in order to meet the societal challenges faced by cities all over the world.

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Carbon capture, storage and utilisation

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CCUS Study Tour to Denmark

View the official invitation and full agenda here. CO2VISION and INNO-CCUS invite you to explore Denmark’s CCUS ecosystem. The CCUS Study Tour includes attendance at the Danish CCUS Summit conference and site visits across Denmark. For questions, please contact: Thilde Møller Larsen, Green Hub Denma

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Power-to-x

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Topsoe unveils plans for advanced electrolyser factory in the US

With its largest investment in the US yet, Topsoe has announced plans to establish an advanced electrolyser factory for clean hydrogen production, possessing a capacity exceeding 1 GW.

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Power-to-x

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Denmark's first power-to-x education and test facility

By the end of the 2024, a new power-to-x test facility will be established inside the green industrial park at GreenLab. The facility will be the first of its kind in Denmark, aimed at securing future practical skills.

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Green financing

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The Green Fund: Denmark allocates millions for green initiatives

The Danish government has reached a new agreement to invest EUR 670 million in green initiatives by 2030. EUR 270 million of this amount will be allocated from the Green Fund to support initiatives that create a better water environment, increase forestation, and improve access to district heating.

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Smart grid

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Denmark and the UK are now officially connected through the world's longest power cable

Today, the world’s longest power cable, Viking Link, was officially inaugurated at locations at Lincolnshire in the UK and South of Jutland in Denmark respectively. Connecting Denmark with the UK, the interconnector marks the road ahead of international collaboration on advancing renewable energy initiatives and interconnected energy systems.

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Bio-based circular solutions

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Arup enters as founding partner in new network "Building With Blue Biomass"

A new international and interdisciplinary network “Building with Blue Biomass” will explore the potentials of marine and aquaculture-based biomass. The aim is to help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and accelerate the building industry’s transition towards circular and renewable bio-based materials.

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Meet Danish smart cities professionals

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Smart cities

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Brightr Group LED ApS

Smart and intelligent lighting solutions are our passion

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Buildings

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Friis & Moltke Architects

Friis & Moltke Architects is Denmark's leading architectural firm within the energy sector. In the FM Energy department, we handle standalone projects as well as large-scale energy clusters. We of

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Bio-based circular solutions

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Half Double Institute

Are you looking to reach higher impact at a faster pace with your projects? Then contact us to learn more about how you can leverage the Danish-developed project management methodology Half Double.

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Climate change adaptation

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SCALGO

SCALGO Live is a web-based platform used by engineers, landscape architects, urban planners, biologists and more to create better and more sustainable environments with space for water.

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Buildings

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WE BUILD DENMARK

WE BUILD DENMARK is the national cluster organisation for the building and construction sector in Denmark.

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Carbon capture, storage and utilisation

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AquaGreen ApS

You get a future proof solution for sludge management with AquaGreens unique HECLA technology. Get rid of all your organic pollutants, reduce your sludge handling cost and become carbon negative and e

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Energy storage

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Green Deal Flow

Green Dealflow is an industry specialist in finding and matching developers with renewable energy investors.

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Biodiversity

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URBAN POWER

URBAN POWER ApS is an architect and urbanist office who advises municipalities, regions, companies and private developers in making decisions within the fields of urban planning, buildings and urban s

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Air pollution

With urbanisation set to increase, air pollution will affect even more people in the future if no action is taken. Through strict environmental legislation and air quality monitoring, Denmark has reduced atmospheric pollution in most areas to less than one-fifth of the levels during the late 70s.

Climate change adaptation

Expanding mitigation to include adaptation in dealing with climate change, enables a holistic view that can combat previous negative social, environmental, and economic impacts and result in both climate resilient and more liveable places to live. Over the next 15-20 years, Denmark will spend more than EUR 5 billion on adapting its cities to climate changes.

District energy

Put simply, district energy is about moving energy in water, with a valuable temperature, from a place of production to the place of consumption. Denmark’s district heating system is highly energy efficient and has been one of the key drivers for reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions from the energy sector.

Green buildings

With urbanisation, demographic changes, and climate change, our cities and their buildings are facing immense challenges. Creative and innovative thinking can lead us towards a more sustainable approach to designing, creating, and using the buildings that form the basis for our everyday lives, to the benefit of both our planet and the people that populate our urban centres. Ensuring that new buildings are sustainable and energy-efficient will be key to our efforts to tackle climate change.

Smart cities

As the pace of urbanisation quickens, cities face immense challenges related to waste management, mobility, climate adaptation and energy. However, as their political, economic, and technological power grows, cities can harness this trend to act as leaders in the green transition and drivers of the green economy. Cities need smart solutions to ensure that they are optimised for sustainable economic activity, energy consumption, and an improved environmental impact.

Urban mobility

Cities must be built for people to be sustainable, healthy, and liveable. Targeted policy-making with urban mobility in mind is a strong reinforcement of these objectives. The key is to acknowledge the importance of city space and city life as an attractive, informal, and democratic meeting place for the city residents.

Urban waste management

Urban waste management entails the entire system of collecting, sorting, treating, utilising and ultimately disposing of waste. When properly facilitated it can provide a source of energy and resources, while significantly reducing pollution.

Urban water management

Cities around the world increasingly face pressure from both growing populations and climate change, challenging urban water supply in terms of available resources and in terms of treatment of increased wastewater volumes. An integrated approach to urban water management can ensure cost efficiency and synergies. E.g., wastewater treatment can provide the city with energy and nature-based solutions can delay or store rainwater for later use.