12-01-2011

Sønderborg: Climate friendliness makes for growth

The ambition of the south Jutland town of Sønderborg is to create a CO2-neutral growth area in a region with a competitive commercial sector.

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How green are you and your city?

Today, it is hard to find a city, an organisation or even an individual that does not relate in some extent to climate change. But when you take a closer look at ‘green strategies’, important differences appear in their core beliefs. Is there a belief that technological solutions will be able to respond to the climate challenges? Or is the belief more on sensible individuals able to respond to the challenges by changing their consumer behaviour? Is the most important response found in ‘community action’? Is it in stronger regulations? Or is the belief that we need a combination of all these strategies to ‘fix it’? What shade of ‘green’ are you and your city?

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