Denmark

Official name
Kingdom of Denmark
Region
Europe
Sub-Region
Northern Europe
ISO 3166-1
dk

      

Denmark

Copenhagen, Denmark

Nyhavn district, Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. The city has a population of 775,033 (as of January 2018), of whom 613,288 live in the Municipality of Copenhagen. The larger urban area has a population of approximately 1.3 million (as of 1 January 2016) within the Capital Region of Denmark, while the Copenhagen metropolitan area has over 2 million inhabitants.

Copenhagen is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand and is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the strait of Øresund. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road.

CPH 2025 Climate Plan (Copenhagen - Denmark)

CPH 2025 Climate Plan

In 2009, the Climate Plan for Copenhagen was approved and adopted by the City Council to achieve a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2015 (target already met in 2011) and to state the vision of becoming carbon neutral by 2025. In 2012, the final CPH 2025 Climate Plan was closed with specific guidelines towards carbon neutrality.

Aarhus, Denmark

By Ssjensby (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality. It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula, in the geographical centre of Denmark. The municipal population is 335,684 (as of 2017). It is the central city in the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.

Go Green with Aarhus (Aarhus - Denmark)

Screenshot of Go Green With Aarhus website

The City of Aarhus has the ambitious goal of becoming a carbon neutral society by 2030. As Denmark’s second largest city and one of the fastest growing economies of the country, Aarhus has challenged itself to comprehensively address the issue of climate change, relying on its citizens and corporate partners to turn its vision into reality.

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