@@aaronberta3958 That would definitely help making living there more sustainable! The high cost of living in cities has a lot of people commuting for hours in many places or moving to smaller ones. Making it more affordable to live closer to work would cut emissions and help people continue to move there. And more homeless shelters would certainly help both the urban environment and people in need.
The first thing is to reduce the number of vehicles on the streets, everywhere. Before the mass production of cars, people used to walk, used bicycles and streetcars. To be dependent from this vehicles changed the habits of the population and opened the road to foundation cities, sprawl and toxic pollution/energy wasting.
The first step is to make public transportation and then reduce motorized vehicles ... If the above has gone well then make a green building and build green land for the public
@@dailymoney5917 Good point! Cars are responsible for most air pollution in cities (auto.howstuffworks.com/percentage-of-air-pollution-due-to-cars.htm). Hopefully more cities improve public transit and create walkable neighborhoods. Along with a higher percentage of cars being electric, we could drastically reduce both greenhouse gases and local air pollution produced by cities in the coming years.
They mean business when they say that the residents of Copenhagen are trying to become a clean city. When I was with my Danish friend walking around Copenhagen I put a plastic bottle in the regular thrash can. He looked at me and asked me what I was doing, proceeds to take out the bottle, and places it in the recycling machine. He then looks at me and says: "this is how we do it in Denmark."
@@MKiller5 exactly. But politicians dont usually do as they say. Its why politics is despised. Its full of deception. The citizens of Copenhagen are lucky that they have a mayor who sees himself solely as a representative o the public and not his pocket and self interest. :)
Politics in Denmark are generally a bit different in that one could say there is far more integrity as the norm. Which means that people end up trusting the system and society, and wanting to pay the high taxes that contribute to making solutions like this possible.
This is such a good news, recently I have only seen news about terrible environmental impact. This gives hope to humanity that there are people who really try to do something to save the planet. Thank you for all the people that contribute their part in making this world a little bit better
thank goodness there is at least one example in the world of a group of humans acting smart. For me, as an American, the environmentally aware Copenhagen is almost beyond belief, and VERY refreshing.
Doesn't Copenhagen burn garbage to make power? They just opened a new garbage incinerator that generates electricity a few years ago. I think this video even briefly shows the plant.
@300bpm first of all is it at bad thing that gas is expensive of it makes people bike instead? And secondly gas prices are the same outside the city, but people drive more there because the distances are to great
I guess the best way to control city pollution/ go green is to limit our population or put a cap on it. We should also make sure that we should avoid any wastage of food, electricity, water and all the other things that require burning of fossil fuels. I don't mean to just stop using fossil fuels, but just having a thought before wasting it. For example just think before dumping your leftover food in bin bags that how long it takes to grow some food, how much efforts are put in growing it, how much fuels are burnt to deliver it to your doorstep. Just be mindful before wasting anything.
Good points! It's very easy to waste things without a thought because so much of the supply chain is out of sight for us, but these things add up to the high levels of fossil fuels used today. The good news is that it's also very easy to stop the waste once we are conscious of it.
Good job, Copenhagen! It's so disappointing to think that such progress may never ever happen here in my country, but it's always good to hear good news like this! Can't wait for 2025 and see your progress!
Wooow. That's *so impressive.* 🤩 They turned a highly contaminated body of water so clean, they can swim in it. Oh, this reminds me of a video I saw about how human hair cleans oil spills in water pretty efficiently. Also, I've seen some cities using bio-filters, with a combination of plants that help filter water and bacterias to help eat the wastes away. There's so many fascinating things people are coming up with.
Wow! I didn’t know that their Airports and ports were closing down! You can’t (or it would be difficult) to be carbon neutral as long as their still open
If ever the government decides to roll these changes back, I only hope the citizens can rise up and stand against those changes. This is too good to let go of.
Not a chance! We Danes believe in science. You seem enlightened, but lets make a fast recap. Glaciologist drilling icecores in Greenland have, by analyzing airbubbles captured in the ice, established that we the last 500.000 years have had a pretty stable carbon PPM at 220. Besides Carbon also things like acidity, pollen counts, Vulcanic ash count and identification etc. can be measured. Since the ice sheet have been build up over time, layer by layer, year by year, we go back in time the deeper we go. So we have a YEAR BY YEAR documentation of the global climate 500.000 back or 10 times the periode, since man left Africa. There has been a few peaks at 280 PPM that all have been connected to high global Vulcanic activity. Since around the beginning of the industrial revolution PPM has exploded. We are now (2021) at 416 PPM, close to double the amount we have seen last 500.000 year. Just to set the amount of 500.000 years in context, man left Africa around 60.000 years ago. The Kingdom of Denmark have approved access to nations that have wanted to do own glaciology studies and many nations have. Denmark, USA and Canada forexample all have a full set of cores and can thus give you key data of our climate, year by year, 500K years back. We have a global problem and we, as mankind, created that problem, and if we dont solve it very fast, we eventually will pollute ourselves out of a home. Lets look at some science reality. Country 2015 per Capita carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion (metric tons) United States 15.53 (now over 16. Americans the absolut most polluting nationals on earth) Russia 10.19 China 6.59 India 1.58 Source. US Government. (epa dot com) These numbers actually to low since aviation are excluded. Americans flying more per Capita than others, making reality even grimmer. Ask yourself WHY so many Americans, that are the highest emitting nationals on this planet, are not even aware of this fact! The money invested in keeping so many Americans in the dark about own emissions are HUGE, and it has worked. The basics of climate change that I learned in basic school 40 years ago are still not basic knowledge for to many in US. The whole world signed the Paris Climate agreement and Trump/USA´s decision to leave did not temp any other to follow suit...The last 4 years USA have internally been divisive as ever in modern time. The short recap for US last 4 years looked like this from where I stood. VERY first day Trump was in office, while USA was talking about crowd sizes, he fired the head of EPA and replaced him with a former oil CEO! He took USA out of the Paris agreement, while his nation was the biggest polluter per citizen. Trump removed caps on Methane in US. Methane are 22,5 stronger than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. He opened up for an explosion of fracking in US. Fracking are the proces where you pump chemical acid under pressure into your underground to dissolve slate stone! Fracking has, besides the CO2 emission, been proven to cause earthquakes. Chemical acid and/or the gasses have already begun to be detected many places in US. Trump gave permission to a state subsidized pipeline from Alaska that should transport the oil coming out from the further oilsand exploration he gave permission to. Oilsand are the most energy intensive and ground disrupting known way to get oil. It takes 7 liters of oil to produce 10!!! It leaves the ground sterilized since it involves cooking the sand on site! Oilsand and fracking are the two most stupid, dangerous and CO2 emitting processes! He could have raised lasting off shore windmills but chose to do this in the middle of a global climate crisis where others shuts down coalmines/coalplants and now some even stop oil exploration in their nations. Trump has been a disaster for the climate efforts and for US credibility. ( I am sure Putin are happy, not many have devoted time to try to get him to clean up his acts lately, so the trick (also in this sense) worked for him. I have a very hard time imagine USA move forward in a unified way before it has been proven in court of law that Trump belongs at Guantanamo ) IF a policy are UNsustainable for us all and can be replaced by one that ARE SUSTAINABLE and we dont act on it and CHANGE, well, then Darwinism will take us out! The truth are that USA are way behind the curve, sticking to old technology when the world are changing are not doing US, businesses, population, economy, any favors. BUT, back to your expressed fear we might get "bad" politicians trying to overthrow our progress...Dont worry, we understand the science and if anything we are horrified collectively when looking at way to many countries in this world, not least US that under Trump have accelerated emissions while others have begun serious investing in living up to their pledge to the Paris agreement. There are other points inside the deal but the main headline that guide the rest basically are that all countries have to make a 50% reduction of greenhouse gasses (like CO2 and Methane) measured from 1990 level, before 2050. I am happy and proud to tell you that it is ALL of Danes, not just the Copenhageners that are keen on ACTING. It is no longer a left/right issue as it still seems to be some places. Nearly all are onboard and while US mocked the rest of the world by going cracy in fracking and oilsand exploration the Danish parlament, in late 2019, approved in parlament with 167 for, out of 179, to voluntarily, nationwide, reduce CO2 emissions with 70% from 1990 level before 2030!!! That is just 9 years from now! Inside the same decision the Danish parlament also have agreed that Denmark are NOT allowing themselves to buy CO2 quotas to deliver the result "on paper". It has to be a genuine and real reduction. So its a massive improvement and what the climate and the global population needs that ALL countries do. THAT is how you TAKE RESPONSIBILITY! On top of that, Denmark have oil in its underground and they have, approved in parlament a few months ago. Valid immediately, to also decide to stop their planned oilsector explorations and have decided that any oil in their underground are going to be "stored CO2 that never will be released". We will keep current oil platforms (under the Paris agreement) but have decided to decommission platforms, either as they get to old or the wells they have under them run dry. Denmarks change away from fossile fuels have been focused on land and off shore windmills. Off shore windmill parks are large scale where they are going. The overall vision are to eventually export both green sustainable electricity and green hydrogen made by electricity from the windmills. Hydrogen can be made into a gas or a liquid. As a liquid it is optimal for transport. 1 liter of liquid hydrogen contains more energy than 450 liters of refined gasoline. Imagine 1 hydrogen gas tank ship (with a hydrogen engine ofc. ) replacing more than 400 oil tankers! We know have had 3 decades of experience with off shore windmill parks and now have evolved that concept to whole new level. Off shore energy islands as hub for mega windmill parks and hydrogen production. And that is one of the ways we plan to live up to the political decision described earlier. Check this out for some more info. th-cam.com/video/2GC3VcB0gLY/w-d-xo.html You can now own a hydrogen car in Denmark and tank hydrogen for it. That are a much better longterm sustainable solution than batterycars, since they dont crave huge amounts of rare earth minerals and the polluting process of recycling old batteries also can be avoided. SO...please dont be nervous for us, or any rouge politicians HERE, we seem to be worldleading in transforming a democratic modern industrialized nation into a democratic modern SUSTAINABLE industrialized nation. When it comes to climate debate and climate action I think many in US are very information starved. Very few countries that emit in the higher end, have not already made plans to live up to their promises when they signed the Paris climate agreement. Lets make a fast recap. The world have agreed on how emissions should be defined, and what are covered. Thus CO2 emission-calculations around the world, for now around 15 years have been streamlined. Basically , now when USA again have signed, the entire worlds countries are covered. Not one country followed US out of the agreement when Trump tore his copy. The entire world, all citizens in all countries are thus now covered. If all just focus on what they need to DO we can get this going fast. USA´s actual emissions are STILL rising. I hope you understand I wrote this long piece because I wanted to give you some science facts that others you know might benefit from (?) Please show it to any you know that have not grasped our global dire situation. And off course also to make certain you understand we will never go back on this, as you see, since the clip was made, we have speed our transformation UP! I think more should say as I (and nearly all Danes) I dont wanna SPEND our taxpayermoney on fixing the endless and increasing symptoms (climate refugees, flooding, draught, cropfailures, a dead ocean, hurricanes etc. etc. I wanna INVEST in curing the patient (zero emission sustainable living and production). Best regards
If the danish government tried, they would be told to p.o. This is a local thing, and the administrators, are elected every four years. So if THEY decides to roll it back, they'll probably be looking for employment elsewhere, after the next election.
@@freethink full stop ! One thing is to love Copenhagen, another thing is to be a fan of the way they change the city. I love my city, but I hate - with a passion - what Frank Jensen have done to the Capital ! There's A LOT of things you don't see. This is just his "green pride", that he's not even responsible for. It's just propaganda. Straight from the horses mouth
Uhm, yes but actually no? Carbon neutrality doesn't mean you "produce more renewable energy than dirty energy" it means sequestering as much (carbon) as you pollute. Because in your definition, the pollution is less, but not eradicated. And that's not carbon neutrality. It's like saying 60% of our energy needs is powered by renewable energy and the rest 40% by dirty energy. In your definition, you're carbon neutral, but in reality you're still polluting. So that doesn't make sense, sorry. You should possibly correct that.
People are always comparing these tiny Nordic areas to the rest of the world. Copenhagen is only 33 square miles, and what... 2 million people? Los Angeles county is over 4700 square miles with 10 million people. Few can bike to work in LA. Although, thanks to UBER, I dumped my car years ago and haven’t looked back. Then again I’m lucky. I do tech work from home.
Solutions definitely need to fit the needs of the city! Though it's worth noting that LA has come a long way in bike-ability, with app-based bikes growing in popularity and new bike paths along the Expo line and elsewhere, though it's certainly not without controversy: laist.com/2019/04/30/las_first_two-way_bike_lane_arrives_downtown.php
Fair point. However, perhaps cities like LA can use some of the prework done by Scandinavian cities? Maybe not the biking, but perhaps the heating/cooling pipes in some araes? If one or two of these concepts can be applied to a city like LA, I would imagine the impact that LA has is huge. Would be worth considering in my opinion.
I cannot agree with your opinion cause LA is a dystopic place, extremely beautiful and very promising in his early 20th century period but no more today. The entire County has been destroyed by land speculators (a house per family=madness) that started 70 years ago to terraform huge areas, creating by default the dramatic effect of the sprawl. Yes, it's easier to redesign a city that has always been developed following wise rules instead of madness and disrespect for the environment but LA politicians could start moving the wheels in their brains and create a program of serious innovation in the field of public transportation, water-saving, and energy saving. The LA river guys are working very very well also if the results will be visible in years. It's not a myth that Americans consume the double of everything respects every other industrialized country, with subsequent massive pollution. all that said from a person that loves California (especially the coasts) and that chose to focus a part of his University studies on Planning in USA/California.
@@wonderingmonitor1996 Or just implementing public transport. I've been to LA and it ws great and worst at the same time. The latter mostly due to traffic and car-dependence.
That’s a real way of protecting the environment and to reduce pollution. Not to do an useless march and to try to remplace cars by electric cars which in fact pollutes more than regular cars
Don't worry. Frank Jensen didn't want to show all the lies, and how much the changes he makes have destroyed the city - it's soul - as well as the comfort for the people living here
They are not normally used in public spaces, but are common in connection with private housing, both flats and houses. There are bins for plastic, glass, cardboard, paper, organic waste, batteries and different household waste. This is sorted on a daily basis and much of it is reused😊
Why bother making an interesting program when you ruin it with an overlay of intrusive music that makes it impossible to absorb the message. Just turn it off the polluting sound carpet.
Sorry, but the german video title is a pain in the ass in terms of grammar. Correctly it would be "Die nachhaltige Stadt der Zukunft: Kopenhagen, Dänemark" could you please correct it
Not that you are not welcome BUT maybe better to be inspired and aim to work for, that the area you live in follow suit! The entire planet are depending on ALL of us transform. We Danes basically just do as we think all should do, when we look at what science tells us are happening, if we dont change.
A Danish journalist made the experiment of travelling to London (1.5 hrs by plane), to be more sustainable. I believe it took him 23 hours and a very long detour through Germany and France.
Scale is definitely a major factor when trying to make a city green, but the population of Copenhagen is 602,000, which is not small. Good job leading the way Copenhagen! Great video also. Using in my Environmental Biology Class today as an example of what can be achieved if you put forth the effort! Thank you!
With suburbs Copenhagen have a population of 2,1 Million. Stockholm is the same and have 2,4 million, these ain`t small cities. They are approximately the size of cities such as Tampa, St. Louis and Denver.
While in France the french president is saying we wanna do something about the climate change. Also the same president giving billions of euros to car companies 🤡
Sustainability is not just about being sustainable towards the environment but also towards each other. And whoever came up with the idea that cities and the limitless massification of people in one small reduced space could ever be in any way be sustainable was definitely missing a screw in their brains.. on the other hand when it comes to distribution of wealth, whoever came up with the current economic system based on limitless resources was also missing a screw in their brains.. and if wanting better wealth distribution implies being automatically discarded as a communist I'd rather be a communist than delusional. Fair enough, there has to be certain work/skill/talent = reward ethics, but if entire communities and countries and populations have to die in wars or starve to death so that other people can fly around in private jets and own ridiculously expensive mansions, then something is catastrophically wrong in our systems as far as sustainability goes. Science is just around the corner from proving that we are living in a space-time warp that divides the undivided.. in fact it's probably already there but the scientific community is not able to, or has no desire to explain it in practical terms.. only in ambiguity and numbers and in quantum theories, . Can't wait for the day when it finally hits us in the face and we can move on and stop playing this imbecile game of conquering or being conquered.
Pollution have no boundaries especially not when it comes to greenhouse gasses like CO2 and methane. Sattelites monitor earth and you can see where the pollution/emission in that way as well as the single source locally. When Wuhan went into first lockdown because of Covid it had a HUGE impact in a few days. When we burn million of years of accumulated/stored carbon (like coal, oil gas etc.) we basically begin to stress the weather regulating systems that have been very stable the last 500.000 years. Glaciologist drilling icecores in Greenland have, by analyzing airbubbles captured in the ice, established that we the last 500.000 years have had a pretty stable carbon PPM at 220. Besides Carbon also things like acidity, pollen counts, Vulcanic ash count and identification etc. can be measured. Since the ice sheet have been build up over time, layer by layer, year by year, we go back in time the deeper we go. So we have a YEAR BY YEAR documentation of the global climate 500.000 back or 10 times the periode, since man left Africa. There has been a few peaks at 280 PPM that all have been connected to high global Vulcanic activity. Since around the beginning of the industrial revolution PPM has exploded. We are now (2021) at 416 PPM, close to double the amount we have seen last 500.000 year. Just to set the amount of 500.000 years in context, man left Africa around 60.000 years ago. SO. it has taken us less than 200 years to screw our planet up. Problem are that we only are beginning to stop the rise in CO2 emissions now and the lag in the weather regulating systems and their ability to absorb, short term, some fluctuations are now clearly been pushed to the edge. It might take decades after we stop emissions before it have an effect. Tipping points have begun to be triggered. Maybe you have heard that they now find one woolen mammoth after the other in Siberia these years? Iy is because the massive Siberian tundra under its thin layer of soil have a thick layer of permafrost. Global warming have now begun to thaw this permafrost (thus the mammoth becomes visible). This is a big problem because millions of years of organic materiale turned into methane now have begun to be released. Methane are 22,5 times stronger as a greenhouse gas than CO2, so this is just one example of us humans entering an era where we actually cant say what the total global emissions will be unless we stop these trigger points (this is just ONE example). Therefore NOW is the time to ACT, not talk. We cant wait anymore. 20 years ago we were at or slightly below the predictions but the last years we suddenly see the opposite trend. The predictions are being superseeded by actual events. Temperature and water volume are now going up faster and faster. I hope a nation like India will go directly to pure hydrogen cars and wont consider battery cars at all. That could be one of the ways India could benefit economically by acting fast. I hope you feel I tried to give a serious answer to your question that basically cant really be answered with scientific precision today.
Just so you know, the guy in the intro that talks about how we want to be carbon neutral. He licked 3 collegues in the ear at a christmas party, and has now dissappeared from danish politics.
How should we make cities more sustainable?
@@aaronberta3958 That would definitely help making living there more sustainable! The high cost of living in cities has a lot of people commuting for hours in many places or moving to smaller ones. Making it more affordable to live closer to work would cut emissions and help people continue to move there. And more homeless shelters would certainly help both the urban environment and people in need.
@@freethink it definitely would!
The first thing is to reduce the number of vehicles on the streets, everywhere. Before the mass production of cars, people used to walk, used bicycles and streetcars. To be dependent from this vehicles changed the habits of the population and opened the road to foundation cities, sprawl and toxic pollution/energy wasting.
The first step is to make public transportation and then reduce motorized vehicles ... If the above has gone well then make a green building and build green land for the public
@@dailymoney5917 Good point! Cars are responsible for most air pollution in cities (auto.howstuffworks.com/percentage-of-air-pollution-due-to-cars.htm). Hopefully more cities improve public transit and create walkable neighborhoods. Along with a higher percentage of cars being electric, we could drastically reduce both greenhouse gases and local air pollution produced by cities in the coming years.
They mean business when they say that the residents of Copenhagen are trying to become a clean city. When I was with my Danish friend walking around Copenhagen I put a plastic bottle in the regular thrash can. He looked at me and asked me what I was doing, proceeds to take out the bottle, and places it in the recycling machine. He then looks at me and says: "this is how we do it in Denmark."
Model citizen!
@@nielsenn7012 Nope, he is from Southern Jutlant.
Because you get money when you put it in the machine.
@@peterzichau6994 that's an incentive, but not the reason!!
Wish everyone did this
Oh no... here come the 'HI I AM FROM DENMARK' people..
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Wow jeg er fra danmark og det her gør mig så stolt altså ejjj
SponzifyMee hvis du laver en video om Danmark, ja så gør dig parat til at 90% af kommentarerne er skrevet af danskere 😂
You're right, here I am!😆
Everyone wants what Copenhagen wants, there is just a lack of politicians like their mayor.
But as he said; that's up to the people living there, they have "chosen" a green mayor.
@@MKiller5 exactly. But politicians dont usually do as they say. Its why politics is despised. Its full of deception. The citizens of Copenhagen are lucky that they have a mayor who sees himself solely as a representative o the public and not his pocket and self interest. :)
Politics in Denmark are generally a bit different in that one could say there is far more integrity as the norm. Which means that people end up trusting the system and society, and wanting to pay the high taxes that contribute to making solutions like this possible.
People elect their mayors. Just like Americans voted for Trump who claims Climate Change is a hoax, but Americans voted for him anyway!
The mayor resigned in a MeToo scandal the year after, so we may not want too many of his kind 😉
A city is not only the pipes , the buildings , the bikes , the waterways , the parks......above all , a city is its PEOPLE
Leaving a comment here just so youtube algorithm can put this video higher and more people can see it!
good call buddy commenting on here for the same reason
I did asswell
But you do know it's just an investment commercial, right..? Cities compete with eachother.
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This is such a good news, recently I have only seen news about terrible environmental impact. This gives hope to humanity that there are people who really try to do something to save the planet.
Thank you for all the people that contribute their part in making this world a little bit better
thank goodness there is at least one example in the world of a group of humans acting smart. For me, as an American, the environmentally aware Copenhagen is almost beyond belief, and VERY refreshing.
Doesn't Copenhagen burn garbage to make power? They just opened a new garbage incinerator that generates electricity a few years ago. I think this video even briefly shows the plant.
Wow I've never heard of anywhere doing that
@@irrelevance3859 they just put a ski run on top of the plant that burns waste to make power th-cam.com/video/IxDqBgWm2AA/w-d-xo.html
Yes, and there's an artificial ski slope on the incinerator. It's called CopenHill.
I live in Denmark and I can tell you guys even 60, 70, 80 and 90 years old people use a bike instead of a car.
@300bpm first of all is it at bad thing that gas is expensive of it makes people bike instead? And secondly gas prices are the same outside the city, but people drive more there because the distances are to great
@300bpm Gas isn't $10 a gallon, it's more like $6 a gallon
Inspiring!
lukas ny lol it’s a lie it’s not $10. It’s just people want to bike because they’re not lazy and of course we want to be more green ;)
Most people ride bikes in Denmark because of taxation on cars/driving.
Makes me love denmark even more. Did you know that the Danes bought most Organic and home made products than any other in the world?
The mayor looks like Kevin Magnussen from Haas F1 team
Tanzeel Ahmed not even close but kmag is danish too
I guess the best way to control city pollution/ go green is to limit our population or put a cap on it. We should also make sure that we should avoid any wastage of food, electricity, water and all the other things that require burning of fossil fuels. I don't mean to just stop using fossil fuels, but just having a thought before wasting it. For example just think before dumping your leftover food in bin bags that how long it takes to grow some food, how much efforts are put in growing it, how much fuels are burnt to deliver it to your doorstep. Just be mindful before wasting anything.
Good points! It's very easy to waste things without a thought because so much of the supply chain is out of sight for us, but these things add up to the high levels of fossil fuels used today. The good news is that it's also very easy to stop the waste once we are conscious of it.
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Good job, Copenhagen! It's so disappointing to think that such progress may never ever happen here in my country, but it's always good to hear good news like this! Can't wait for 2025 and see your progress!
Just commenting so more people can see this wonderful message
A great short video showing what needs to be done everyone!
We are grateful for your wonderful example
Thank you! Please copy/paste.
Wooow. That's *so impressive.* 🤩 They turned a highly contaminated body of water so clean, they can swim in it.
Oh, this reminds me of a video I saw about how human hair cleans oil spills in water pretty efficiently. Also, I've seen some cities using bio-filters, with a combination of plants that help filter water and bacterias to help eat the wastes away.
There's so many fascinating things people are coming up with.
Beautiful country, nice people, genuine culture, and Green people
Why so few views wtf youtube
It's picking up! Thanks for the positive vibes :)
Wow! I didn’t know that their Airports and ports were closing down!
You can’t (or it would be difficult) to be carbon neutral as long as their still open
what does phrase "how do we grow cities sustainably" mean?
Go Copenhagen!
I love this Channel it’s so progressive, exactly what this world needs more of.
Glad you like it, thanks for watching!
If ever the government decides to roll these changes back, I only hope the citizens can rise up and stand against those changes. This is too good to let go of.
Not a chance! We Danes believe in science. You seem enlightened, but lets make a fast recap.
Glaciologist drilling icecores in Greenland have, by analyzing airbubbles captured in the ice, established that we the last 500.000 years have had a pretty stable carbon PPM at 220. Besides Carbon also things like acidity, pollen counts, Vulcanic ash count and identification etc. can be measured. Since the ice sheet have been build up over time, layer by layer, year by year, we go back in time the deeper we go. So we have a YEAR BY YEAR documentation of the global climate 500.000 back or 10 times the periode, since man left Africa. There has been a few peaks at 280 PPM that all have been connected to high global Vulcanic activity. Since around the beginning of the industrial revolution PPM has exploded. We are now (2021) at 416 PPM, close to double the amount we have seen last 500.000 year. Just to set the amount of 500.000 years in context, man left Africa around 60.000 years ago.
The Kingdom of Denmark have approved access to nations that have wanted to do own glaciology studies and many nations have. Denmark, USA and Canada forexample all have a full set of cores and can thus give you key data of our climate, year by year, 500K years back.
We have a global problem and we, as mankind, created that problem, and if we dont solve it very fast, we eventually will pollute ourselves out of a home.
Lets look at some science reality.
Country 2015 per Capita carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion (metric tons)
United States 15.53 (now over 16. Americans the absolut most polluting nationals on earth)
Russia 10.19
China 6.59
India 1.58
Source. US Government. (epa dot com)
These numbers actually to low since aviation are excluded. Americans flying more per Capita than others, making reality even grimmer. Ask yourself WHY so many Americans, that are the highest emitting nationals on this planet, are not even aware of this fact! The money invested in keeping so many Americans in the dark about own emissions are HUGE, and it has worked. The basics of climate change that I learned in basic school 40 years ago are still not basic knowledge for to many in US.
The whole world signed the Paris Climate agreement and Trump/USA´s decision to leave did not temp any other to follow suit...The last 4 years USA have internally been divisive as ever in modern time. The short recap for US last 4 years looked like this from where I stood.
VERY first day Trump was in office, while USA was talking about crowd sizes, he fired the head of EPA and replaced him with a former oil CEO! He took USA out of the Paris agreement, while his nation was the biggest polluter per citizen. Trump removed caps on Methane in US. Methane are 22,5 stronger than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. He opened up for an explosion of fracking in US. Fracking are the proces where you pump chemical acid under pressure into your underground to dissolve slate stone! Fracking has, besides the CO2 emission, been proven to cause earthquakes. Chemical acid and/or the gasses have already begun to be detected many places in US. Trump gave permission to a state subsidized pipeline from Alaska that should transport the oil coming out from the further oilsand exploration he gave permission to. Oilsand are the most energy intensive and ground disrupting known way to get oil. It takes 7 liters of oil to produce 10!!! It leaves the ground sterilized since it involves cooking the sand on site! Oilsand and fracking are the two most stupid, dangerous and CO2 emitting processes! He could have raised lasting off shore windmills but chose to do this in the middle of a global climate crisis where others shuts down coalmines/coalplants and now some even stop oil exploration in their nations. Trump has been a disaster for the climate efforts and for US credibility.
( I am sure Putin are happy, not many have devoted time to try to get him to clean up his acts lately, so the trick (also in this sense) worked for him.
I have a very hard time imagine USA move forward in a unified way before it has been proven in court of law that Trump belongs at Guantanamo )
IF a policy are UNsustainable for us all and can be replaced by one that ARE SUSTAINABLE and we dont act on it and CHANGE, well, then Darwinism will take us out! The truth are that USA are way behind the curve, sticking to old technology when the world are changing are not doing US, businesses, population, economy, any favors.
BUT, back to your expressed fear we might get "bad" politicians trying to overthrow our progress...Dont worry, we understand the science and if anything we are horrified collectively when looking at way to many countries in this world, not least US that under Trump have accelerated emissions while others have begun serious investing in living up to their pledge to the Paris agreement. There are other points inside the deal but the main headline that guide the rest basically are that all countries have to make a 50% reduction of greenhouse gasses (like CO2 and Methane) measured from 1990 level, before 2050.
I am happy and proud to tell you that it is ALL of Danes, not just the Copenhageners that are keen on ACTING. It is no longer a left/right issue as it still seems to be some places. Nearly all are onboard and while US mocked the rest of the world by going cracy in fracking and oilsand exploration the Danish parlament, in late 2019, approved in parlament with 167 for, out of 179, to voluntarily, nationwide, reduce CO2 emissions with 70% from 1990 level before 2030!!! That is just 9 years from now!
Inside the same decision the Danish parlament also have agreed that Denmark are NOT allowing themselves to buy CO2 quotas to deliver the result "on paper". It has to be a genuine and real reduction. So its a massive improvement and what the climate and the global population needs that ALL countries do. THAT is how you TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!
On top of that, Denmark have oil in its underground and they have, approved in parlament a few months ago. Valid immediately, to also decide to stop their planned oilsector explorations and have decided that any oil in their underground are going to be "stored CO2 that never will be released". We will keep current oil platforms (under the Paris agreement) but have decided to decommission platforms, either as they get to old or the wells they have under them run dry. Denmarks change away from fossile fuels have been focused on land and off shore windmills. Off shore windmill parks are large scale where they are going. The overall vision are to eventually export both green sustainable electricity and green hydrogen made by electricity from the windmills.
Hydrogen can be made into a gas or a liquid. As a liquid it is optimal for transport. 1 liter of liquid hydrogen contains more energy than 450 liters of refined gasoline. Imagine 1 hydrogen gas tank ship (with a hydrogen engine ofc. ) replacing more than 400 oil tankers!
We know have had 3 decades of experience with off shore windmill parks and now have evolved that concept to whole new level. Off shore energy islands as hub for mega windmill parks and hydrogen production. And that is one of the ways we plan to live up to the political decision described earlier. Check this out for some more info.
th-cam.com/video/2GC3VcB0gLY/w-d-xo.html
You can now own a hydrogen car in Denmark and tank hydrogen for it. That are a much better longterm sustainable solution than batterycars, since they dont crave huge amounts of rare earth minerals and the polluting process of recycling old batteries also can be avoided.
SO...please dont be nervous for us, or any rouge politicians HERE, we seem to be worldleading in transforming a democratic modern industrialized nation into a democratic modern SUSTAINABLE industrialized nation.
When it comes to climate debate and climate action I think many in US are very information starved. Very few countries that emit in the higher end, have not already made plans to live up to their promises when they signed the Paris climate agreement.
Lets make a fast recap. The world have agreed on how emissions should be defined, and what are covered. Thus CO2 emission-calculations around the world, for now around 15 years have been streamlined. Basically , now when USA again have signed, the entire worlds countries are covered. Not one country followed US out of the agreement when Trump tore his copy. The entire world, all citizens in all countries are thus now covered. If all just focus on what they need to DO we can get this going fast. USA´s actual emissions are STILL rising.
I hope you understand I wrote this long piece because I wanted to give you some science facts that others you know might benefit from (?) Please show it to any you know that have not grasped our global dire situation. And off course also to make certain you understand we will never go back on this, as you see, since the clip was made, we have speed our transformation UP!
I think more should say as I (and nearly all Danes)
I dont wanna SPEND our taxpayermoney on fixing the endless and increasing symptoms (climate refugees, flooding, draught, cropfailures, a dead ocean, hurricanes etc. etc. I wanna INVEST in curing the patient (zero emission sustainable living and production).
Best regards
If the danish government tried, they would be told to p.o. This is a local thing, and the administrators, are elected every four years. So if THEY decides to roll it back, they'll probably be looking for employment elsewhere, after the next election.
It's good that 70% of the world population will live in big cities. Then we only need all big cities to do like Copenhagen is doing.
Luv it. Subscribed already.
Thank you!
We need this all in the United States. Californians where you at?
I live there. It’s great. Not more to say.
EMPIRIUM straight from the horses’s mouth, as we say!
@@freethink full stop ! One thing is to love Copenhagen, another thing is to be a fan of the way they change the city.
I love my city, but I hate - with a passion - what Frank Jensen have done to the Capital ! There's A LOT of things you don't see. This is just his "green pride", that he's not even responsible for. It's just propaganda.
Straight from the horses mouth
@@79ped Tell us more, it's interesting
Thanks!
You're welcome, thank you!
Let's not forget, trees NEED carbon dioxide. If CO2 goes away, so do the trees.
Really Interesting Video - Copenhagen sets a high bar for us to follow!
I hope we can use this kind of method in some way to restore our cities and make it more sustainable
What a place to live
Very interesting!
Damn their assence are soo strong
Uhm, yes but actually no? Carbon neutrality doesn't mean you "produce more renewable energy than dirty energy" it means sequestering as much (carbon) as you pollute.
Because in your definition, the pollution is less, but not eradicated. And that's not carbon neutrality. It's like saying 60% of our energy needs is powered by renewable energy and the rest 40% by dirty energy. In your definition, you're carbon neutral, but in reality you're still polluting.
So that doesn't make sense, sorry. You should possibly correct that.
Well done Copenhagen, such an example for the world i wish my big city can also transform into carbon free zone
People are always comparing these tiny Nordic areas to the rest of the world. Copenhagen is only 33 square miles, and what... 2 million people? Los Angeles county is over 4700 square miles with 10 million people. Few can bike to work in LA. Although, thanks to UBER, I dumped my car years ago and haven’t looked back. Then again I’m lucky. I do tech work from home.
Solutions definitely need to fit the needs of the city! Though it's worth noting that LA has come a long way in bike-ability, with app-based bikes growing in popularity and new bike paths along the Expo line and elsewhere, though it's certainly not without controversy: laist.com/2019/04/30/las_first_two-way_bike_lane_arrives_downtown.php
Fair point. However, perhaps cities like LA can use some of the prework done by Scandinavian cities? Maybe not the biking, but perhaps the heating/cooling pipes in some araes? If one or two of these concepts can be applied to a city like LA, I would imagine the impact that LA has is huge. Would be worth considering in my opinion.
I cannot agree with your opinion cause LA is a dystopic place, extremely beautiful and very promising in his early 20th century period but no more today. The entire County has been destroyed by land speculators (a house per family=madness) that started 70 years ago to terraform huge areas, creating by default the dramatic effect of the sprawl.
Yes, it's easier to redesign a city that has always been developed following wise rules instead of madness and disrespect for the environment but LA politicians could start moving the wheels in their brains and create a program of serious innovation in the field of public transportation, water-saving, and energy saving. The LA river guys are working very very well also if the results will be visible in years.
It's not a myth that Americans consume the double of everything respects every other industrialized country, with subsequent massive pollution.
all that said from a person that loves California (especially the coasts) and that chose to focus a part of his University studies on Planning in USA/California.
And Mumbai, India is 233 square miles with 22 million people 😅
@@wonderingmonitor1996 Or just implementing public transport. I've been to LA and it ws great and worst at the same time. The latter mostly due to traffic and car-dependence.
excellent video!
Thank you. Good job!
That’s a real way of protecting the environment and to reduce pollution. Not to do an useless march and to try to remplace cars by electric cars which in fact pollutes more than regular cars
Andrei Rachieru does electric cars pollute more than “regular” cars? Source?
So, soon there will be introduced Eco-Legos?
Made out of kitchen waste and North European happiness?
Okay i need to move there😁😁
It's a great place on a number of levels :)
Rakchit Yonzan ok. What are you waiting for? I’ll pay for your ticket.
Assaf Wodeslavsky 😂✌️
Thanks for this
I love that smart people are thinking of inavative ways to help the planet.
Good Video👍
Loved this!
It's sad that I'm dying too early because of vaping.
Hopefully one day can go there
Copenhagen is nice, but Amsterdam really leads the way.
This makes me feel happy
Love this!
When your English is so bad and he says District KYLLING but it’s district cooling
it's called accents :)
Kylning is Cooling in swedish and køling in danish so mabye a mix of all 3 got into his thought process xD
Well my teacher showed me this video and I love Copenhagen
Wow, I noticed how clear was the water in the canals while in Copenhagen. Biking in the winter could be tough though....
As we say in Denmark, "There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing."
@@TomaszDK We say the exact same thing in Sweden haha.
you just use special wheels. also they do a good just to get away the snow fast. Atleast here in Stockholm, cant imagine them being worse.
Excellent !
Dane here, i would love denmark to be like this!
Yeah, but it's not reality. Frank Jensen destroyed Copenhagen, but that's not what he want to talk about.
Way to go 👍
Amsterdam:
Am I a joke to you...?
Amazing!!
The problem with this video is that it is to short
עמנואל נחמו we have follow ups coming soon!
Don't worry. Frank Jensen didn't want to show all the lies, and how much the changes he makes have destroyed the city - it's soul - as well as the comfort for the people living here
@AutoDriver4000 It's a propaganda video to what?
Wow awesome
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
At what time is it coming the second episode??? :)
do china and india next... THE REAL POLLUTERS!!!
Denmark also does more pr capita 🤷🏼♂️
Stop this blame game
Awesome 👏
I didnt see separated trash bins in CP when I was in Denmark.
They are not normally used in public spaces, but are common in connection with private housing, both flats and houses. There are bins for plastic, glass, cardboard, paper, organic waste, batteries and different household waste. This is sorted on a daily basis and much of it is reused😊
First carbon negative capital city is thimpu in bhutan. 🇧🇹Bhutan is a country situated in south Asia near 🇮🇳India
Awesome!
Why bother making an interesting program when you ruin it with an overlay of intrusive music that makes it impossible to absorb the message. Just turn it off the polluting sound carpet.
Sorry, but the german video title is a pain in the ass in terms of grammar. Correctly it would be "Die nachhaltige Stadt der Zukunft: Kopenhagen, Dänemark" could you please correct it
Bravo, Copenhagen!
Hm when I become a teenager, I might move to Copenhagen since it’s real healthy.
Not that you are not welcome BUT maybe better to be inspired and aim to work for, that the area you live in follow suit! The entire planet are depending on ALL of us transform. We Danes basically just do as we think all should do, when we look at what science tells us are happening, if we dont change.
Nice
How do I make my home a tiny edition of that city
Little did they know...Amsterdam is so much better
No, Houten (NL) is
* wants to learn about how Kopenhagen is increasing sustainability *
* goes there by airplane *
sustainability: am I a Joke to you?
It's pretty hard to travel any other way with how slow sea travel and car travel is.
A Danish journalist made the experiment of travelling to London (1.5 hrs by plane), to be more sustainable. I believe it took him 23 hours and a very long detour through Germany and France.
Since Donal Trump couldn't buy Greenland... Denmark! Do you want to buy USA and Make America Great Again!!! 👍🙏🙏
Neat
District connected heating and cooling systems is such a great idea!
Yeh, this model only applies only to smaller cites.
Scale is definitely a major factor when trying to make a city green, but the population of Copenhagen is 602,000, which is not small. Good job leading the way Copenhagen! Great video also. Using in my Environmental Biology Class today as an example of what can be achieved if you put forth the effort! Thank you!
With suburbs Copenhagen have a population of 2,1 Million. Stockholm is the same and have 2,4 million, these ain`t small cities. They are approximately the size of cities such as Tampa, St. Louis and Denver.
Love Copenhagen and definitely a city I can see myself moving to long term.
look at the guy at 1:55
Sød lille cykel historie men 'G-overvågning i det her område"... Hm🤔 From surveillance to co-creativity/Co-lead from inner 'Gps'.
Geography is great
Will this work in Beijing, New Delhi, and Lahore?
where there is a will there is a way
I couldn’t wait to get out of there. Creepy, kinda like a cross between Stepford wives and Soylent green. The place feels wrong.
It’s a little more than that. The culture and mindset. But yeah, I like acreage where I don’t have to see my neighbors. Not into the “hive” thing.
While in France the french president is saying we wanna do something about the climate change. Also the same president giving billions of euros to car companies 🤡
Sustainability is not just about being sustainable towards the environment but also towards each other. And whoever came up with the idea that cities and the limitless massification of people in one small reduced space could ever be in any way be sustainable was definitely missing a screw in their brains.. on the other hand when it comes to distribution of wealth, whoever came up with the current economic system based on limitless resources was also missing a screw in their brains.. and if wanting better wealth distribution implies being automatically discarded as a communist I'd rather be a communist than delusional. Fair enough, there has to be certain work/skill/talent = reward ethics, but if entire communities and countries and populations have to die in wars or starve to death so that other people can fly around in private jets and own ridiculously expensive mansions, then something is catastrophically wrong in our systems as far as sustainability goes.
Science is just around the corner from proving that we are living in a space-time warp that divides the undivided.. in fact it's probably already there but the scientific community is not able to, or has no desire to explain it in practical terms.. only in ambiguity and numbers and in quantum theories, . Can't wait for the day when it finally hits us in the face and we can move on and stop playing this imbecile game of conquering or being conquered.
yes and a place only for the rich people.
I have a question, the question is how long did the changes take to have an impact?🌲🌳🌴🌱🌿🌵☘️🍀🍃🌺
Careful, I think you got a couple of words mixed in with those emojis.
Pollution have no boundaries especially not when it comes to greenhouse gasses like CO2 and methane. Sattelites monitor earth and you can see where the pollution/emission in that way as well as the single source locally. When Wuhan went into first lockdown because of Covid it had a HUGE impact in a few days. When we burn million of years of accumulated/stored carbon (like coal, oil gas etc.) we basically begin to stress the weather regulating systems that have been very stable the last 500.000 years.
Glaciologist drilling icecores in Greenland have, by analyzing airbubbles captured in the ice, established that we the last 500.000 years have had a pretty stable carbon PPM at 220. Besides Carbon also things like acidity, pollen counts, Vulcanic ash count and identification etc. can be measured. Since the ice sheet have been build up over time, layer by layer, year by year, we go back in time the deeper we go. So we have a YEAR BY YEAR documentation of the global climate 500.000 back or 10 times the periode, since man left Africa. There has been a few peaks at 280 PPM that all have been connected to high global Vulcanic activity. Since around the beginning of the industrial revolution PPM has exploded. We are now (2021) at 416 PPM, close to double the amount we have seen last 500.000 year. Just to set the amount of 500.000 years in context, man left Africa around 60.000 years ago.
SO. it has taken us less than 200 years to screw our planet up. Problem are that we only are beginning to stop the rise in CO2 emissions now and the lag in the weather regulating systems and their ability to absorb, short term, some fluctuations are now clearly been pushed to the edge. It might take decades after we stop emissions before it have an effect. Tipping points have begun to be triggered. Maybe you have heard that they now find one woolen mammoth after the other in Siberia these years? Iy is because the massive Siberian tundra under its thin layer of soil have a thick layer of permafrost. Global warming have now begun to thaw this permafrost (thus the mammoth becomes visible). This is a big problem because millions of years of organic materiale turned into methane now have begun to be released. Methane are 22,5 times stronger as a greenhouse gas than CO2, so this is just one example of us humans entering an era where we actually cant say what the total global emissions will be unless we stop these trigger points (this is just ONE example).
Therefore NOW is the time to ACT, not talk. We cant wait anymore. 20 years ago we were at or slightly below the predictions but the last years we suddenly see the opposite trend. The predictions are being superseeded by actual events. Temperature and water volume are now going up faster and faster.
I hope a nation like India will go directly to pure hydrogen cars and wont consider battery cars at all. That could be one of the ways India could benefit economically by acting fast.
I hope you feel I tried to give a serious answer to your question that basically cant really be answered with scientific precision today.
FRENCH POWER
Sorry, but where could I find this other content about the cities of the future that is nominated at the end of the video. thank you very much.
Thanks for asking! This is actually the first video in the series but we have more on the way.
cool.
They just show the most pretty places in a of Chp.. lol. Not the rest...
Putting a comment for more views!
Det er sgu da slikke-Frank
Just so you know, the guy in the intro that talks about how we want to be carbon neutral.
He licked 3 collegues in the ear at a christmas party, and has now dissappeared from danish politics.
i am gonna make petrol bikes and ride them there