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The EU as a whole is aiming for 82 per cent clean power by the end of the decade but some member states are looking to go one step further.
The Nordic country’s exceptional efforts to fight the climate crisis have been recognised
This year, Denmark has performed best on the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), which was published on 9 November at COP26 in Glasgow. The CCPI assesses the performance of 60 countries across 4 categories: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Renewable Energy, Energy Use, and Climate Policy.
With a typical estimated lifespan of 20 years, a large quantity of wind turbine blades will need to be decommissioned sometime soon. In fact, it is generally estimated that by 2050 there will be almost 40 million tons of waste material from the global wind industry that will need to be disposed of. But the good news is that there are several companies and research groups that are seeking to find more sustainable ways to recycle and repurpose decommissioned wind turbine blades.
The IEA’s report released earlier this year, “Hydrogen in North-Western Europe: A vision towards 2030”, welcomes the fact that the six countries analysed – Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK – have the ambition to build a hydrogen economy. They are Europe’s major hydrogen producers and consumers, have major ports that already service this sector, have natural gas infrastructure that can be repurposed, and access to new offshore wind and carbon storage capacity that can make low or no-carbon hydrogen. But the report’s main purpose is to warn that the current pipeline of projects is not enough to meet ambitions. Policies must be strengthened, with better coordination. The report makes its recommendations, including the development of an integrated regional market, support for innovation and market size scale-up, and the creation of a strategy for new production capacities for low-carbon hydrogen.
Denmark has the most zero-emission urban buses on the roads in Europe, with electric buses making up 78% of its new vehicles, according to the latest data from Transport and Environment (T&E), a green NGO.
From Ballerup and Viborg to Odense and Hjørring. The 46 new municipalities which will boost local climate efforts have now been named. Through the ’DK2020 – Climate plans for all of Denmark’ project they will all develop climate action plans that live up to the Paris Agreement. The parties behind the project - Realdania, Local Government Denmark and the five Danish regions - describe the level of interest as overwhelming.
Premier producteur d'or noir de l'Union européenne (après le Royaume-Uni en cours de sortie), le Danemark va cesser l'exploitation du pétrole et du gaz en mer du Nord en 2050 dans le cadre de ses efforts pour devenir un modèle de transition énergétique, a annoncé le ministère de l'Énergie.
It is beyond discussion that the global climate emergency calls for solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and requires decarbonisation. Often, the spotlight is aimed at renewable energy as the solution, but in fact, we can achieve 44% of the required global reductions by capturing the potential of energy efficiency, argues Lars Knaack of Novenco
The Danish city of Odense is home to one of Facebook’s data centres – large facilities that house tens of thousands of computer servers that are meant to ensure that our online experience keeps running smoothly. One of the drawbacks of these types of facilities, that has been a problem for many of their owners, has been their environmental impact – namely, the issue of keeping all that tech cooled down and making use of all the excess heat that it generates.
The Odense facility, however, has found a way to make the best out of their predicament and help out the entire city in achieving its climate ambitions.
The Netherlands agreed on Friday (19 June) to pay Denmark €100 million as part of an arrangement that will allow the Dutch government to declare at least 8 TWh of Danish surplus renewable power on its books, in an effort to meet its EU target.
Denmark plans to build two “energy islands” totalling 4GW of offshore wind capacity, under plans to reduce emissions by 70% from 1990s levels by 2030 and become a green energy exporter. EURACTIV's media partner, Climate Home News, reports.
Denmark, backed by 10 other European Union countries, on Friday (4 October) called for a strategy to phase out diesel and petrol cars, including allowing the ban of sales at national-level by 2030 to combat climate change. Denmark made the proposal during a meeting of EU environment ministers in Luxembourg. Incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen aims to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The Danish delegation argued that to achieve this the transport sector needs to decrease its emissions.
The Danish government proposal suggests that polluting trucks, buses and vans will be banned from several big cities in Denmark starting the summer of 2020, as so-called environmental zones become more stringent. This means that older versions of the vehicles will not have access to the zones in Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg unless they have particle filters mounted. The government estimates that the eco initiative will help reduce total emissions of soot particles generated by traffic by upwards of 25% in the cities.
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On 5 May, the Danish Parliament officially approved a new law, allowing the country’s 98 municipalities to ban the use of wood-burning stoves and fireplaces produced before June 2008 in areas with district heating or natural gas. In doing so, the government hopes to significantly reduce air pollution and decrease the number of deaths caused by it.
L’urgence climatique est là et les réseaux de chaleur associés aux nouvelles technologies et aux ENR sont un des leviers de la décarbonation du chauffage. Avec la moitié des consommations d’énergie, la production de chaleur française est encore insuffisamment décarbonée. La France a décidé de multiplier par 5 la quantité de chaleur et de froid renouvelables entre 2012 et 2030. Alors les projets, les actions se multiplient avec en ligne de mire le succès danois !
Birgit Hansen is the mayor of Frederikshavn, Denmark and is recognised for her role in the city’s ambitious climate plan that will reduce its CO2 emissions by over 90% by 2050. Created in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement and the C40 Cities Climate Action Planning Framework, the plan is already successfully mobilising the community to achieve a zero carbon society.
The world’s largest wind farm two decades ago may not survive as a co-operative. At least this is what the Danish energy industry says. The co-op’s founders remain defiant – and optimistic.
Deep renovation of the buildings is a key for sustainable development, however, the rate of deep renovation of residential buildings in the European Union (EU) is lower than what is required to meet the climate and energy goals. This paper analyses peculiarities and commonalities in market conditions and approaches to deep renovation of single-family (or detached) houses in Denmark and Sweden. The market analysis covers the Political, Economic, Social and Technical (PEST) dimensions and is based on systematic literature review and findings of market gap analysis. The PEST analysis is complemented with responses from 49 stakeholders/experts to examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis) for deep renovation market. The synthesis of SWOT and PEST led to some strategies for deep renovation. Furthermore, policies and strategies adopted by some other countries have been discussed to place findings from this study in the regional and global context. Capacity building in designing and managing deep renovation with technological advancement and construction practices; and enforcement of quality assurance systems of artisans could avoid the perceived risk and inconveniences associated with renovation. Encouraging systematically planned stepwise deep renovation through One-Stop shop and linking such renovation with appropriate financing mechanism could attract more homeowners with financial limitations. Besides, clustering several houses in need of renovation and appropriate energy/carbon pricing mechanisms could make the renovation market more attractive for investors and construction companies. The findings of this paper are of interest for the construction companies, policymakers, investors, and analysts about deep renovation market.
Denmark has led the way on decarbonisation of heating, with a rapid transition away from fossil fuels aided by its large scale adoption of heating networks over the past 40 years. Instead of exchanging individual heating appliances in every home and commercial building, the Danes are centrally converting their heat networks to renewable energy, saving citizens a pile of money in the process
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Un quart de la flotte urbaine. Le 25 juin 2020, les six plus grandes villes du Danemark se sont engagées à n’acheter que des bus urbains à batterie électrique et à hydrogène à partir de 2021. Cette décision a été entérinée par un accord de coopération climatique entre les villes de Copenhague, Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg, Vejle et Frederiksberg avec le ministère danois des Transports. Ces six villes détiennent environ un quart du parc urbain du pays, soit 800 bus sur un total de 3.330. «Il est donc tout à fait naturel qu’elles soient le moteur de la transformation des transports publics», commente le ministre danois des Transports, Benny Engelbrecht. Ce dernier espère que cette initiative sera suivie par d’autres localités dans le pays.
The 2050 targets are closer than you think. The impacts of today’s decisions will directly affect the young people already in the workforce. Monika Skadborg, chairperson of the Danish Youth Climate Council, argues it is time those voices should be heard in the climate debate
Earlier in May, the Danish government presented its first Climate Action Plan meant to chart the course towards achieving the country’s ambitious goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 70% compared to 1990 by the year 2030. The Plan stipulates a series of concrete actions, projects and initiatives that will ensure that authorities will be able to keep on track and accomplish their goal.
In 2007 we set the goal of transitioning Sønderborg to a zero-carbon municipality by 2029. We have since been working towards this goal together with citizens, housing associations, educational institutions and many of the local companies. We monitor the progress each year and in 2018 we have reached a 49.3 percent reduction in CO2-emissions.
With ProjectZero we have assumed an active role trying to solve some of the big challenges related to energy consumption and climate change in the world. And we try to share our knowledge as much as we can – on a national level but also in different international networks.
"We found that none of the oil majors has a business model that is compatible with the goals of Paris Agreement and thus we decided to sell them all," Anders Schelde, the fund's chief investment officer, told DW. "We put them all on our blacklist, our exclusion list."
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