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Copenhagen has ambitions to be a world-leading cleantech city and will target its DKK 11 billion (EUR 1.5 billion) civil engineering budget at green investments over the next three and a half years, reports national daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende.
"There is already general support in the city council to make Copenhagen CO2 neutral by 2025. We now want to combine that objective with comprehensive civil engineering projects in order to create international awareness of Copenhagen as a leader in green growth," says Frank Jensen, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen.
Although the UN Climate Change Conference COP15, which Denmark hosted in December 2009, was disappointing in terms of results, Jensen opines that Copenhagen’s green image has not been affected.
"When I speak to my mayor colleagues around the world, no one blames Copenhagen the fact that the summit ended as it did. On the contrary, there is great curiosity in how Copenhagen has managed to create a 97 percent supply rate for district heating. And there is significant interest in how we will reach the objective of becoming CO2 neutral. We must capitalise on that interest so that we are able to convert the large amounts of goodwill into jobs and growth," says the Lord Mayor.
Denmark No.1 for entrepreneurship
A new survey published in September ranks Denmark as the world’s most attractive country for entrepreneurs, ahead of Canada and the USA. The comprehensive survey of global entrepreneurship and development was carried out by some of the world’s leading researchers in entrepreneurship from George Mason University. The news is reported by financial newspaper Børsen.
The entrepreneurial performance of 71 countries was measured over a range of individual and institutional variables in order to capture both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of entrepreneurship. Denmark topped the index with a score of 0.76, followed by Canada on 0.74 and the USA on 0.72. One of Denmark’s leading experts in entrepreneurship,
Professor Torben Bager of the University of Southern Denmark, says that the survey partially reflects Denmark’s well-developed entrepreneurship policy but cautions that there are still barriers, such as the lack of venture capital, which need to be removed in order not to lose one of the important foundations for job growth in the Danish economy.
Did you know...
that Denmark is a world leader in district heating? 62% of the country’s households have district heating, compared with the European average of 9%.
Source: Statistics Denmark
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