In Copenhagen we intend to become carbon neutral by 2025, but already in 2015 we are to reduce carbon emissions by 20 per cent.
2015:
Target: Copenhagen has decided to reduce its carbon emissions by 20 per cent from 2005 to 2015. This equals a reduction of approximately 500.000 tons from 2.500.000 to 2.000.000 CO2. The target is to be achieved through the 50 initiatives of the Copenhagen Climate Plan.
2025:
Vision: Copenhagen intends to become carbon neutral by 2025. The city will be carbon neutral when Copenhagen’s carbon net emissions equals zero. That is when Copenhagen has reduced carbon emissions to a minimum; and compensated for the remainder of emissions with external initiatives(e.g. windmills).The vision is to be carried out by launching even more initiatives than those presented by the Climate Plan, for instance placing more windmills, further limiting of car and bus emissions or encouraging more Copenhagen citizens to save energy.
Copenhagen Climate Plan
In August 2009, an unanimious city council passed the Copenhagen Climate Plan. The plan includes 50 specific initiatives which are to make Copenhagen achieve the target of a 20 per cent reduction from 2005 to 2015. The plan also presents an ambition of carbon neutrality by 2025.
In the Copenhagen Climate Plan 50 initiatives are put forward to reduce carbon emissions. 34 of these are launched in 2010, and 44 during the first half of 2011, e.g. climate renovation of municipal buildings (schools, kinder gardens etc.), constructing of more windmills, improvement of conditions for electric vehicles and establishing small parks for re-creative purposes and rain water drainage. See the list of the 44 launched initiatives here.In 2010 an amount of DKK 28 million was assigned to the implementation of the plan, as well as 62.5 millions during 2011-13, making a total of 90.5 million Danish Crowns.
