@@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.

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

The clean part is not true in the entire city but rest of it is defekt true and many people bike abd love it too.

@@cristianotorres7847 Someone had a bad day. Just jealous.

@@cristianotorres7847 ... that's not my experience of Copenhagen. You're incredibly negative about the city if you live there then why not leave?

@@cristianotorres7847 lmao you aint the only 1.

@@cristianotorres7847 Nogen trænger til en krammer 😳

Wondering Monitor awesome, glad to hear your experience! Drop us a line if you do end up moving there :)

Wondering Monitor it’s cheap if you live in Denmark but for foreigners ppl can’t really afford it

just a few things .. I live in Denmark and it is pricey because we get a high salary. (an uneducated worker get 15-20$ pr. hrs.) but we also have a high income tax, and the green initiatives are paid by the taxes not the company's so the prices of commodities are not affected by the green movement, we started on windmills in the early 90's, and people where laughing at us back then. and we have a lot of laws when building and designing so the carbon footprint it as low as possible. unfortunately the last 10 years we had a government that thought we done enough, so they slowed down on the green initiatives. that resulted in a decline in our hunt for green cites. but now we have a new goverment that has 70% carbon reduction (as of 1990) as a top priority and mikey ... no it is not cheap for Danes as well.. a bottle of coke is still 5$, but we are great at reusing our stuff, and everywhere you go or look there are shops and people that tell you to stop wasting food and reuse everything from plastic trays to electronics. we have 6 diffrent trash cans to sort our trash in. so no it is not cheap to live here for a dane either... but when we travel we feel like kings, because everything is sooo cheap

vilikkebruge google oh yes, I noticed the prices on everything. VAT is even higher than where I live now (25% in Denmark if I recall correctly?). I guess it also depends from person to person, but personally I don't mind paying extra tax for initiatives like these, of which we all benefit. Really liked the mindset that a lot of people seemed to share, a sense that we need to do this for all of us. Noticed it when talking to locals (young and old, common people and high educated, and also migrated Danes), in Copenhagen, and even in places like Køge and Gilleleje.

@@wonderingmonitor1996 yes there is a flat 25% VAT on everything here (we are talking about removing it on organic food, so we can eat more healthy and eat less meat.) The labor cost are also pretty high, we also pay the highest tax on electricity in EU, but most people are either happy or content about it. besides we got free schools from 1st grade to PhD, free healthcare, it is such a blessing not to pay 400$ for an ambulance, or choose between my pension or a chemotherapy. so that is why most people are happy about the high tax levels. but what people often forget about the green energy sector is how many it employs. in Denmark we got Vestas a windmill company ( the largest in the world) it was just a small company in the 80's. but then we started to build windmills in the 90's and it gave Vestas and other Danish windmill company's lot of experience long time before other country's even heard the world renewable energy, and now it employs 17.000 people ( that is a lot in danish context). and the same with our heating system, we made that in the 80/90s, because of the high oil prices, so now it is pretty much our grabrage that warms us. facebook just opened a datacenter in Odense where the extra heat is going to the central heating system instead of going to the air. so everything is about reusing as much as you can

@Jenson Ramsden 09 Clifton ok

Omg i love this ❤️

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.

kus mijn kloten

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Mario Toller. We need to make this the top comment

Yep, I was thinking the same thing ! Thanks for the comment.

THANK YOU I saw that and I was like no fucking way that has gotta be fake

Yeah. The idea of a carbon neutral city is kind of bs. I think that the improvements are important, but it is also a sort of green washing

Honestly yeah I was so confused I thought I got it wrong.

Danskere i en nøddeskal

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!😆

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 😉

Ryan Botha thanks so much! Glad you liked the video and that it inspired you. Let us know if you do end up pursuing those goals in your own country, we love sharing the cool stuff our subscribers are working on!

The key to achieving stuff like this, is dealing with corruption. Denmark is the least corrupt nation in the world, which in return results in our population generally trusting the government and each other.

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.

Dan, what made you decide to immigrate to the country? what do you now for work?

When did you immigrate into the country? Are you from the United States?

There are many ways of doing it. For example, Austria has mountains, more difficult to bike, but a lot of hydropower.

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 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f950pKWYvNOWcXU.html

Yes, and there's an artificial ski slope on the incinerator. It's called CopenHill.

So glad you like it, thanks for watching!

Thank you! Please copy/paste.

@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.

Thank you!

You're welcome, thank you!

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.

Tanzeel Ahmed not even close but kmag is danish too

Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!

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

It's picking up! Thanks for the positive vibes :)

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😊

Thanks for asking! This is actually the first video in the series but we have more on the way.

We're jealous!

the reason most people bike in Copenhagen, is there are very few parking spaces !!!, plus public transportation is expensive , and last but not least, a lot of danes like to get the exercise done while transporting themselves to or from work-it's practical and saves time-it's only a small group who does it due to the environment

That's really cool. Hope more countries begin to follow the example; it works so well at improving transportation, emissions and quality of life it's fairly surprising more haven't. Paris and Seville have been making strides, though: www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/28/seville-cycling-capital-southern-europe-bike-lanes

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 😂✌️

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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aK1zZrmUp5bLfI0.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.

Colin DeVoe bring a bike!

Just don't decide based only on this video

you're more than welcome !!

Yeah, but it's not reality. Frank Jensen destroyed Copenhagen, but that's not what he want to talk about.

Glad you like it, thanks for watching!

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.

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.

There are plenty of parks and open spaces in Copenhagen. It is a fairly green city, also in that way☺

where there is a will there is a way