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For a long time it has been Copenhagen municipality's aim to plant 100.000 trees before 2025. Only one third of them have been planted, mostly in the city forest on Amager. But that will change soon, as the municipality has decided to use 1.3 billion kroners to reach its goal! Picture: Naturpark Amager.

Join us next wednesday, 3rd of June 2020 on a virtual architecture and urban planning tour. We will 'walk' around Hyllie, a commercial hub close to the Øresund Bridge, and the Western Harbour, a residential neighbourhood developed on a brownfield site. The sustainable neighbourhoods focus on the latest high-tech solutions and form Swedish flagships of energy efficiency. Both areas aspire to be in harmony with nature as much as possible, with diverse green space and a high biodiversity. Find...

We can't loose track of other challenges we were facing. Therefore we want to highlight again the vision for the Nordic Region, something we should continue to keep in mind. The Nordic Council of Ministers envisioned last year in Iceland that the Nordic region will become the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030. Co-operation is key in achieving this goal.

The shared priorities:

1. A green Nordic region – towards carbon neutrality and a sustainable...

Bornholm has been chosen as the most sustainable island in Europe! Samsø, another Danish Island, is a close second. Bornholm has been focusing for a long time on the green transition. Bornholm, among other things, has distinguished itself by beginning the phase-out of coal and oil early. And with limited financial resources available installing renewable energy sources. The result is an efficient and reduced energy consumption and large reductions in CO2 emissions. Other initiatives as...

Bo Christiansen wrote an article for the leading Austrian architecture magazine...

It has been three weeks today that Denmark started to close down. As much as possible we have been trying to stand together, but stay apart. As many others, we have said goodbye to our office space at Bloxhub and are writing this from our home office. Everyone had to make tough decisions which were necessary to flatten the curve. And it seems to be working for now. On Monday Mette Frederiksen, prime minister of Denmark, announced that with continuous efforts and stabilizing numbers, we can...

In February Scaledenmark held a talk for a Japanese delegation who wanted to learn more about Copenhagen’s urban development towards a carbon-neutral city. Our lecture “Copenhagen CO2-Neutral by 2025” provided them with a lot of inspiring case-studies. Find out more info about this and other talks under our “Lectures” tab above!

Some of the companies forming in the Japanese...

Scaledenmark can look back on a year – and by extension decade – of guiding urban leaders from all around the world in the Øresund region. Through engaged storytelling we have empowered a wide range of professionals and students to implement Copenhagen and Malmö’s holistic sustainable design solutions in their own practice.

We are...