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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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Discover Copenhagen’s architecture and infrastructure by bicycle

Join State of Green on a journey to witness how Danish architecture, landscaping, planning and design have a great deal to offer and can contribute to paving the way towards more sustainable, livable and connected cities. With the UIA Congress themes in mind, this after-congress event will give part

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Clean air in transportation

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Electromobile Logistics for the City of Ettlingen

The city of Ettlingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, started its own mobility app project. The particular challenge regarded the rural location of the city. As a result of this, Ettlingen relied heavily upon the logistical capacities of its largest neighbour, Karlsruhe. It was recognised

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Climate change adaptation

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Belfast Digital Innovation Partnership

BABLE Smart Cities helped to foster a transition towards greater sustainability and innovation leadership in the City of Belfast, through the creation of a digital innovation partnership. The City of Belfast was missing a way to bring together all the important leading institutions of the region, to

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Air pollution

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Urban greening: living lab will measure how plants help cities combat pollution

Urban air and noise pollution are two major factors impacting the quality of life of city dwellers and causing significant harm both to our health and to the environment. A growing number of cities are considering strategic urban greening projects as a high impact economic solution to reduce noise a

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Topsoe and Sasol to accelerate growth in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

21 February 2023

Together with Sasol, Topsoe will develop, build, own, and operate ventures producing SAF. First step is a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the opportunities of establishing a joint venture setting the course for these ventures.

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Micromobility

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Copenhagen Car free(dom)

20 February 2023

Despite numerous efforts, CO2 emissions from the mobility sector are increasing in the EU. Simultaneously, we see an increasing number of people moving to cities which demands a change in the city districts to create more space.

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Meet Danish urban mobility professionals

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JAJA Architects

JAJA is an award-winning Danish architecture and urban planning studio that works both practically and theoretically with projects that contribute to the creation of a better future.

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Waste management

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Simon Moos Maskinfabrik A/S

With more than forty years of experience, Simon Moos Maskinfabrik A/S is the industry leader in know-how about sludge dewatering, sludge processing and the effective management of related tasks and lo

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Juul Frost Architects

Juul Frost Architects is an award-winning multidisciplinary studio with a holistic approach and a human focus. The purpose of our architecture and urban development is to promote quality of life, he

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Heavy transport

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Dansk Gummi Industri A/S

Dansk Gummi Industri is a leading supplier of flexible, protective and cost-effective solutions for transport, handling and storage of wind turbine blades, towers and nacelles.

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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

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Port of Aalborg

Port of Aalborg is more than a traditional port, transport hub and business park. We work with partnerships and collaboration. Sustainability and green transition. Symbioses and synergies. Knowledge a

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EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Hub North

EIT Urban Mobility is a public/private partnership under the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Headquartered in Barcelona (Spain), its regional Innov

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Danish Shipping

Danish Shipping is a trade and employer organisation. Half of the members of the organisation own ships registered in Denmark, the other half run their activities in Denmark under other flags of state

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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.