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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 green buildings that are sustainable and energy-efficient will be key to our efforts to tackle climate change.

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Cities occupy 3% of Earth’s land but account for 70% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions
70 %
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Buildings are responsible for 40% of global energy consumption and 33% of greenhouse gas emissions
40 %
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In Europe alone, more than 220 million buildings – or 75% of the building stock – are energy-inefficient, with many relying on fossil fuels for heating and cooling
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Cities occupy 3% of Earth’s land but account for 70% of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions Buildings are responsible for 40% of global energy consumption and 33% of greenhouse gas emissions In Europe alone, more than 220 million buildings – or 75% of the building stock – are energy-inefficient, with many relying on fossil fuels for heating and cooling

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Indonesia Denmark Energy Partnership Programme (INDODEPP)

2 December 2022
Despite the fact that climate and energy transition goals have been set in Indonesia, Indonesia’s energy transition still need to overcome multiple barriers namely energy access, energy security and energy sustainability. In order to reduce the climate change impacts and smoothen the process of ener
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Energy efficiency in buildings

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Energy efficiency solutions in buildings and industrial production

1 December 2022
In Jalisco, buildings do not have adequate standards/norms for energy efficiency, and the local industrial production could be more energy efficient. Therefore, specialists from the Danish Energy Agency are collaborating closely with Mexican specialists to share and transfer important expertise from
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Energy efficiency

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Danish model for Voluntary Agreements on Energy Efficiency

1 December 2022
The Mexican industry is challenged by a high energy consumption in manufacturing and production lines in combination with a heavy dependence on fossil fuels. Reducing energy intensity in industries is an important element to reduction of CO2 emissions. …ambitious targets for its energy sector
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Circular construction

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New research shows the potential of circular construction

29 November 2022
Recycling is good for the climate, but how much CO2 do we save by using recycled materials instead of newly produced ones? New research made by the Danish Technological Institute clarifies the potential of building circular, with Danish solutions acting as a source of inspiration.
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Energy efficiency in buildings

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Less kWh is more! Reducing energy need with smart architectural design

28 November 2022
The main challenge was to highly reduce the energy used by the building. The architects wanted to find optimal form of the building, proper materials, and smart design decisions that will lead to energy efficiency.
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Energy efficiency

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New white paper: The neglected demand side of the green equation

17 November 2022
This is the first in a series of new whitepapers – Danfoss Impact – that we are writing to share our view on the potential of energy efficiency and electrification to transform our energy system.
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Meet Danish green buildings professionals

Company

Air pollution

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CLIIN Robotics

CLIIN Robotics provides versatile robots for the benefit of natural and work environments across industries

Financial Institution

District energy

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Investment Fund for Developing Countries - IFU

IFU is the Danish Development Finance Institution providing risk capital for private sector investments in developing countries and emerging markets. Investments are made on commercial terms in the fo

Company

Living labs

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BABLE Smart Cities

BABLE provides business and technology services for smart city green solutions. We create automated services that simplify and offer expert advice to guide transition, development and scaling. Our onl

Company

Green financing

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PKA

PKA is a non-profit labor market pension fund based in Denmark. We manage the pensions of 350,000 members employed primarily in the social service and health care sectors

Company

Buildings

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Transition ApS

Transition supports the transition to a sustainable society.

Company

Bio-based circular solutions

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Viegand Maagøe

We co-create the green transition. The transition relies on a combination of technologies, financing, people, and communications. This is why we are experts in advising about these topics.

Company

Energy efficiency

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frient

frient offers high-quality smart home devices that can reduce electricity consumption, enable home automation, and protect the users' homes and families. The frient devices are available for installer

Public Sector

Urban planning and development

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Middelfart Municipality

Middelfart Municipality (MM) on the island of Fyn has worked with climate actions since 2007. The municipality is one of the first in Denmark to hold a Climate Action Plan together with a political ag
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.