Lykke Leonardsen, Head of Department, Copenhagen Climate Plan, City of Copenhagen, Denmark.

1. MEETING CLIMATE
TARGETS – AND
FACING REALITY

2. A GROWING CITY
• 590.000 citizens
• 1000 more every month
• We expect to be 100.000 more by 2025
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3. COCREATING COPENHAGEN
• A liveable city – a city full
of life
• A city with responsibility –
both for citizens and
globally
• A city with an edge and
room for differences
• Co-creation

4. CLIMATE PLAN
Copenhagen as driver for
sustainable innovation
Source: Nasa
WORLD TEMPERATURE JUNE 2015

5. 5
CLIMATE PLAN – CARBON NEUTRAL IN 2025

6. CLIMATE PLAN
MAJOR GOALS FOR 2025
• 20 pct. reduction in heat consumption
• Improvement of building structures and conditions
• Strategy for reducing the energy consumption in CPH
• New financial and organizational models
• 20 pct. reduction of electricity consumption in
commercial and service companies
• 10 pct. reduction of electricity consumption in
households
• Installation of solar cells
• Smart City, Open data Portal, Copenhagen
Connecting
ENERGY CONSUMPTION

7. CLIMATE PLAN
MAJOR GOALS FOR 2025
• Carbon neutral district heating in CPH
• Electricity production is based on wind and biomass
• 100 wind turbines before 2025; onshore and offshore
• Geothermal, heatpumps and solar heat.
• Plastic waste is separated
• Biogasification of organic waste
ENERGY PRODUCTION

8. CLIMATE PLAN
MAJOR GOALS FOR 2025
• 75 pct. of all trips in Copenhagen are on
foot, by bike or public transport.
• 50 pct. of trips to work or school in
Copenhagen are by bike.
• 20 pct. more passengers use public
transport.
• 20-30 pct. of all light vehicles run on new
fuels
- electricity, hydrogen, biogas or
bioethanol.
• 30-40 pct. of all heavy vehicles use new
fuels.
MOBILITY

9. 21-06-2016
• CO2 emissions cut by 40 percent since
2005
• But that was the low hanging fruits
• Next roadmap – 2017-2020
• Focus on energy consumption, mobility
and waste
A CARBON NEUTRAL CITY – THE NEXT STEPS

10. A NEW CHALLENGE FOR THE CITY
• Warmer
• Wetter
• Wilder

11. Then this happens…..
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12. JULY 2011 – THE CITY IS VULNERABLE
• 150 mm rain in 2 hours
• Damages close to 1 billion euro
• Damages to critical infrastructure
• A game changer for the city
• Development of a Cloudburst management Plan

13. THE GAME CHANGER
• High political attention
(nationally and locally)
• More speed - and to hell
with uncertainties
• Change in legislation - new
finance mechanisms to
enable surface solutions

14. 10. September 2012
THE CLOUDBURST MANAGEMENT PLAN

15. FOLLOWING THE NATURAL FLOW OF WATER

16. DIVIDING THE CITY INTO CATCHMENT AREAS

17. TYPES OF SOLUTIONS
• Cloudburst boulevards
– transporting water
• Retention boulevards –
delaying water
• Central delays – for
storing water

18. A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE
• Citywide project
• Connected system
• 300 projects
• 20 years to implement
• The biggest construction project
for the city in many years
• Calls for a lot of innovation

19. THE OPPORTUNITIES OF ADAPTATION
• Focus on urban spaces
• Green and blue urban spaces
• We are developing af concept for the
integration of water in the urban
space
• Green adaptation – using the
synergies to create green corridors
and hopefully increase biodiversity
• Synergies – saves times and money

20. CREATING MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN SPACES
• Storm water management
system on the surface
• Water management 1-10%
of the time
• When it is not raining it
serves as normal roads,
parks, squares etc.
• Urban Nature as one of the
main goals

21. LONG TERM IMPLEMENTATION
• Will take approximately 20 years of implementing
• Flexibility in the implementation phase
• In choice of solutions
• In capacity (following climate projections)
• In multifunctionality (the use of the city changes)

22. • No city has ever done what we are doing
• Smart solutions
• How do we combine water management with urban
space improvement
• How do we combine cloudburst solutions with
solutions for harvesting water?
• Cleaning
• Controlling the flow of water?
• Real time monitoring and warning systems?
• Emergency measures?
INNOVATION AND SMART SOLUTIONS

23. COOPERATION WITH CITIZENS
• In all projects!
• Citizens know their city –and
their local neighbourhoods
• Challenge to make urban space
improvements, recreational
activities and storm water
management to work together
• Also cooperation through local
district councils and
regeneration projects
• Communicating the challenge
also to citizens

24. A CITY WITH MANY AGENDAS – AND NOT
ENOUGH ROOM FOR THEM ALL
• Traffic – bikes vs. Cars
• Bikes vs. Pedestrians
• Parking vs. Green spaces and trees
• Housing
• Schools and institutions
• Carbon Neutrality
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25. CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION
• Constant organisational and
political backup
• Economic – keeping prices low –
and keeping adaptation from
stopping economic development
• Different wishes to urban life –
how do we fit in?
• We need to work within the
existing infrastructure in the city

26. DIFFERENT PLANNING LOGICS
• Adaptation the Copenhagen way
interferes with a lot of different
planning logics
• When engineers meet architects
• When planners meet the
environmentalists
• And they in turn meet the
economists
• And then we haven’t even
mentioned the legal experts….
• Then we have to work a little bit
for sweet music to appear

27. CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IS THE
BACKBONE OF THE LIVEABLE CITY OF THE
FUTURE
• Hydraulic structure will be the
backbone for all urban space
developments for the next 20 years.
• It is through the cloudburst projects
that other strategies for the city will be
implemented – such as urban nature,
bicycling etc.
• Annual project packets based on the
hydraulic structure – with urban space
improvements as parts of the projects
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28. Thank you for your attention
Lykke Leonardsen
lykleo@tmf.kk.dk