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The Danish EXPO 2012 Pavilion Opened by the Crown Prince Couple 15. May 2012 The Danish EXPO 2012 Pavilion Opened by the Crown Prince Couple The Danish pavilion will demonstrate Denmark’s positions of strength when it comes to Green growth, sustainable energy sources and modes of transpo...
Denmark and South Korea Collaborate on Research, Innovation and Education 15. May 2012 Denmark and South Korea Collaborate on Research, Innovation and Education The Danish higher education minister is visiting South Korea to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on research, innovation and higher education bet...
7. May 2012 Export of Danish Energy Technologies Increases In 2011, the export of Danish energy technologies increased by 18 percent. The export of Danish energy technologies is now equivalent to 10,5 perce...
3. May 2012 A Call for Transparency and Sustainability in Shipping In a frank report, Maersk Line casts light on the impacts of global container shipping and trade, both good and bad.
3. May 2012 Energy Efficiency Is The Way To Growth With European Union output still 2% lower than pre‐crisis levels and 16 of 27 Member States experiencing a 5% or more increase in unemployment, a n...
18. Apr 2012 Informal Ministerial Meeting to Pave the Way for a Greener Europe A greener Europe to help solve the financial crisis. That is the agenda for the informal ministerial meeting in Horsens, Denmark from 17-20 April. ...
22. Mar 2012 FLSmidth to Supply a New Cement Production Line in Brazil FLSmidth has been awarded a contract worth USD 83m (approximately DKK 470m) from the company Margem Companhia de Mineração (a subsidiary of Supremo...
22. Mar 2012 Broadest, Greenest and Most Long-term Energy Agreement Reached The Danish government has entered into a broad and historic energy agreement. With the agreement, Denmark once again has the world's most ambitious...
15. Mar 2012 Green Growth and Jobs on Trade Ministers’ Agenda Minister for Trade and Investment, Pia Olsen Dyhr, will be chairing the Foreign Affairs Council’s discussion among trade ministers Friday. On the a...
14. Mar 2012 ProjectZero Joins Clinton Climate Positive Development Program The Danish city of Sonderborg’s ProjectZero has been accepted to join the global C40-Climate Positive Development Program in partnership with the T...
14. Mar 2012 EU Signs Important Water Agreement with China On behalf on the 27 EU-countries, Danish Minister for Environment Ida Auken has signed an agreement on water cooperation with China. The agreement ...
13. Mar 2012 Danish Building Industry Exhibition Focus on Climate, Energy and Environment From March 13th to 16th, Scandinavia’s most important building industry exhibition, TUN BYG 2012, will be held in Fredericia, Denmark. The exhibiti...
1. Mar 2012 2011: A Good Year for Danish Cleantech The cleantech companies in East Denmark are performing surprisingly well despite the crisis. 44 percent have hired new people since the last year's...
29. Feb 2012 Vattenfall Keeps Its Danish Operations Vattenfall has decided to keep its CHP business in Denmark and not to proceed with the planned divestments.
29. Feb 2012 Denmark Tops First-of-its-kind Global Cleantech Innovation Index Denmark, followed by Israel, Sweden, Finland and the US provide the best conditions today for clean technology start-up creation, with companies in...
28. Feb 2012 New Partnership to Ensure Sustainable Water Supply in Kenya The Danish Minister of Environment, Miss Ida Auken opened an innovative solar powered water project in Manyatta together with high level representa...
24. Feb 2012 Denmark and China Intensify Cooperation on Renewable Energy Denmark launches cooperation with China that will contribute to convert the Chinese energy supply to a climate friendly and “low carbon” energy sys...
22. Feb 2012 IEA Commends New Danish Energy Strategy Denmark is a leader in implementing well-designed policies for renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change, according to a review of Dan...
15. Feb 2012 Grundfos Introduces the World’s Most Advanced Circulator Pumps Record low energy consumption, the best quality in the market, and a user-friendly wireless interface. These are some of the features of the new pu...
15. Feb 2012 Rio+20: Global competition encourages future sustainable leaders UN and Aarhus University launch a global competition related to the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. State of Green supports the in...
10. Feb 2012 New Research Hub to be Constructed in the Øresund Region In the coming years, one of the world’s largest and most advanced research facilities will be placed in the Øresund Region. The facility, named Eur...
9. Feb 2012 New EU-China Water Platform Denmark will be among the leading countries on European side – together with key EU partners and the EU delegation in Beijing - in the so-called Ch...
2. Feb 2012 Grundfos Doubles Turnover in Russia Grundfos has such high ambitions in Russia that they want to double the turnover to 400 million Euro or 3 billion DKK in 2016. The growth must not ...
30. Jan 2012 Danish Embassies Walk the Green Talk 36 Danish embassies have implemented energy savings measures at post. With annual energy savings averaging 15 per cent, the results speak louder th...
27. Jan 2012 Majority of Danes Want to Pay for Green Energy A large majority of the Danish voters would like to pay for replacing coal, oil and gas with renewable energy such as solar, wind and biomass.
27. Jan 2012 Maersk Line Leads Fuel Switch at the Port of Virginia Maersk Line will switch to low-sulfur fuel while at berth for all of its containerships calling the Port of Virginia starting in February. This fue...
25. Jan 2012 Public-Private Partnerships to Solve the Climate Crisis More cooperation between government and business is the only road ahead to save the climate, according to former UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer. He s...
25. Jan 2012 43 Research Talents Awarded Scholarships to Help Secure Denmark’s Future 43 of Denmark's most talented students in the biotechnological and pharmaceutical sciences will today be awarded Novo Scholarships, the largest of ...
18. Jan 2012 Ericsson Telecommunication Makes Maersk Shipping Smarter Maersk Line has joined forces with Ericsson to bring global mobile telecommunications to the oceans. Introducing extended connectivity to vessels w...
17. Jan 2012 DONG Energy and Wavestar Enter into Collaboration on Wave Power DONG Energy A/S and Wavestar A/S has entered into a research and development collaboration that is to explore the prospects of combining wind energ...
16. Jan 2012 Construction of Giant Offshore Wind Farm Initiated 400,000. This is the number of Danish households that as of next year will have their power consumption covered by Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. Today...
16. Jan 2012 New Hydrogen Refueling Station Opened North of the Polar Circle H2 Logic A/S recently opened a hydrogen refueling station 150 meters north of the polar circle, at the Arctic Driving Centre in Finland. The statio...
17. Jan 2012 Alfa Laval Explains the New Copper Brazed Heat Exchanger 16. Jan 2012 The inside story on the new copper brazed heat exchanger Models in the new generation of copper brazed heat exchangers from heat tran...
11. Jan 2012 Green Investments Will Pave the Way For European Economic Growth Supported by Danfoss, DONG Energy, PensionDanmark and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Danish government sets out the green agenda for th...
10. Jan 2012 Economic Model for Sustainable Water Use Under Development Sustainable management of water aims at maximising the value of water to society while minimising impacts on vulnerable communities.
6. Jan 2012 Sustainable Events During the 2012 EU Presidency The Danish Meetings Industry collaborates with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver sustainable events for the 2012 EU Presidency. The...
2. Jan 2012 A Green Europe is a Top Priority for Denmark’s EU Presidency Yesterday, on January 1, 2012, the Danish EU Presidency began. One of the priorities of the Danish EU Presidency is a green Europe. The four main p...
21. Dec 2011 Cemetary Caretakers Explore the Potential of Fuel Cells Holstebro Cemetery is a haven of peace and tranquility as any churchyard should be.....What may surprise visitors is that the churchyard is a busy ...
15. Dec 2011 Maersk Oil and Siemens Join Forces for Clean Power Generation Siemens has agreed to develop and build turbines for Maersk Oil’s novel TriGen clean power generation technology.
8. Dec 2011 UN Climate Change Talks are Brought Forward by Businesses The global business community has adopted the climate change agenda and has efficiently made an impact on the annual United Nations climate change ...
28. Nov 2011 Exporting Nordic Know-how on Ecolabelling The Nordic ecolabel, the Swan, may soon fly south, all the way to South America. The Nordic Council of Ministers has just initiated a joint venture...
22. Nov 2011 State of Green partners with RuDanEnergo State of Green is happy to announce its partnership with RuDanEnergo – Russian Danish Energy Efficiency Centre.
15. Nov 2011 Smart Building by Cowi Leads the Way for the BREEAM Certificate In the heart of Vilnius, a mixed-use office and retail building is being designed with BREEAM in mind. The goal is a certified sustainable building...
8. Nov 2011 Danfoss Thermostats to Improve Energy Efficiency of U.S. Embassies Alliance to Save Energy, League of Green Embassies and manufacturer’s partner to conduct a series of energy efficiency retrofits of U.S. Embassies ...
8. Nov 2011 Energy Research Reinvigorated by 2012 Budget Research, development and the demonstration of new energy technology will be allocated an additional DKK 439 million in the 2012 budget.
4. Nov 2011 Green technology pushed from lab to shop Inventions that can serve to shape a cleaner and greener planet should be helped out of the University of Copenhagen’s labs and into the consumer u...
3. Nov 2011 EU Directive on Energy Efficiency Improvement Inspired by Denmark The European Commission launches a new directive on how to increase energy efficiency, as a result of the European Union’s problems of meeting its ...
1. Nov 2011 Albertslund In Denmark Wins Competition For Nordic Energy Municipality 2011 The winner of the prestigious competition, Nordic Energy Municipality 2011, was decided today. Finland's prime minister, Jyrki Katainen, announced ...
21. Oct 2011 Denmark to Give $135 Million ODA for Green Growth HA NOI — The Government of Denmark will provide US$135 million in official development assistance (ODA) to Viet Nam during the 2011-12 period, with...
21. Oct 2011 Cowi Opens Energy Company in the US Saving energy is really on the agenda in the U.S. and Canada. Therefore COWI now establishes a U.S. subsidiary. Here district heating is one of the...
13. Oct 2011 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen Supports New Danish Green Branding Initiative The Danish Ambassador-at-Large for Trade and Investments highlights the possibilities of "State of Green - Join the Future. Think Denmark".
11. Oct 2011 Ambitious Opening Speeches at The Global Green Growth Forum Ambitious climate dialogues and innovative partnerships targeted at the opening of 3GF
8. Sep 2011 Agrotech investigating potential of microalgae Danish agriculture is facing substantial challenges in the global competition for future food products markets. These are challenges that must be m...
1. Sep 2011 Risø DTU and Mekoprint distribute 10,000 polymer solar cell powered flashlights The mass production of organic photovoltaic cells is both feasible and inexpensive. To prove this, 10,000 solar cell flashlights, produced in coope...
11. Aug 2011 New CCC initiative: Complex Cleantech Solutions A new initiative invites Danish cleantech companies to co-develop innovative projects in order to meet the growing global demand for ‘systemic’ cle...
21. Jul 2011 Third meeting of International Cleantech Network brings tangible results When the managers of eight of the world’s leading cleantech clusters held their third meeting of the International Cleantech Network (ICN), the emp...
18. Jul 2011 American cycling delegation seeks inspiration in Aarhus Aarhus Cycling City led the way when the American NGO Bikes Belong Foundation made an inspiration visit to Aarhus.
14. Jul 2011 The City of Aarhus leads the way in urban bicycling After some tough winters, there has been a general decline in the amount of cyclists on the roads in Denmark. But in Aarhus, it’s a different story...
11. Jul 2011 Roskilde Festival was celebrated with a “green” conscience The volunteer and non-profit organization Positive Energy, founded by engineer students from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) among others...
7. Jul 2011 Old barn turned into comfortable climate-friendly wedding venue A ground source heat pump from Danfoss has helped an English couple turn a 300-year-old tithe barn into a wedding venue that uses renewable energy ...
4. Jul 2011 Cross-Border Energy Partnerships On the occasion of the visit to Berlin by Danish Minister for Climate and Energy, Dr. Lykke Friis, you are hereby invited to join a meeting today o...
30. Jun 2011 Denmarks Green Alliance with South Korea pays off From now on Danish companies can apply to participate in a South Korean research programme for green technology. By 2012 the programme will have a ...
17. Jun 2011 Global Green Growth Institute places regional office at Risø DTU Global Green Growth Institute, an international organization helping countries develop sustainable growth solutions, will establish its first regio...
14. Jun 2011 Grundfos publishes sustainability report When looking back at Grundfos’ activities and results for 2010, sustainability is one of the keywords. We are especially proud of two results – our...
10. Jun 2011 Sustainable Solutions from Copenhagen at C40 Summit With a catalogue of sustainable city solutions, Copenhagen seeks to boost the green collaboration between cities. The aim is not only to share know...
7. Jun 2011 Korean state visit strengthens green dialogue The South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, recently visited Denmark, meeting the Royal family, politicians and a wide range of representatives from...
2. Jun 2011 Rockwool Group: EU should cut CO2 emissions by 30% by 2020 The Rockwool Group supports a joint business declaration calling for the EU to increase its greenhouse gas reduction target from 20% to 30% by 2020...
23. May 2011 Danish-Korean Green Growth Alliance Korea and Denmark have ambitious national plans for a transition to greener and more energy efficient economies with a greater share of renewable a...
18. May 2011 China and Denmark lead the way in clean technology DENMARK earns the biggest share of its national revenue from producing windmills and other clean technologies, the US is rapidly expanding its clea...
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