Public transportation

An additional 72 cities and municipalities around the world are joining “Race to Zero”, a global campaign to mobilise cities, businesses, regions, and investors around a green and just recovery ahead of next year’s COP26 in Glasgow. A record-high 46 Danish municipalities have joined, so now a total of 66 Danish municipalities are in the race.

Noise and emissions from the buses on lines 2A and 18 in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg have ended as 48 electric buses took over the routes this weekend.

The city of Copenhagen grows by approximately 10,000 inhabitants each year and therefore the need to find sustainable transportation solutions for the city’s inhabitants and visitors increases. The new Metro line will play an important role in relieving traffic congestion and making transportation faster and easier. The driverless and fully automatic metro is expected to carry more than 100 million passengers a year.

P4G has selected 19 new partnerships as finalists for 2019 start-up and scale-up fundingfrom the more than 380 applicants who applied for P4G partnership funding earlier this year.

The European Union has provided funding for 200 new hydrogen buses in Denmark.

The City of Copenhagen concluded its negotiations for the 2019 budget last week. The agreement reaffirms the city’s sustainability ambitions via significant investment in green transport and the development of green spaces.

Today, Denmark and a number of countries signed the Birmingham declaration, which aims to ensure political action is directed towards reducing transport-related CO2 emissions.