Territorial Review Copenhagen - Region Hovedstaden

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guidelines in the forthcoming Climate Change Action Plan (2009). The
city‘s ambitious targets, especially with transportation and organic food, are
laudable and reflect the administration‘s desire to decrease air pollution and
increase liveability (Box 2.9). However, key commitments remain absent, in
particular more conventional targets for water use, the residential sector and
government buildings and services. While the Copenhagen Agenda 21
(2004-07) explicitly targeted water conservation, groundwater consumption
and water recycling were absent from the Eco-Metropole vision. 41 This is
especially problematic given the Danish Meteorological Institute‘s forecast
of temperature increases in Denmark by 3˚ to 5˚C by 2100. 42 Other cities
have offered more refined plans for the residential sector and government
buildings. Cape Town‘s Energy and Climate Change Strategy, for instance,
established targets for energy efficiency in municipal buildings and more
efficient lighting in households and city-owned housing (City of Cape
Town, 2006; OECD, 2008). Equally important given the fluidity of much of
the contamination in Copenhagen, additional effort needs to be made to
forge such agendas on a regional basis. Promising initiatives exist on this
front, e.g. the Capital Region‘s Soil Contamination Strategy (2007) and
Copenhagen Capacity/Technical University of Denmark‘s forthcoming
clean-tech cluster project, but additional work with regional air and noise
pollution may be required.
Box 2.9. Environmental targets for the city of Copenhagen (2015)
Area Progress (2007)
Air and noise pollution
A reduction in Copenhagen‘s CO 2
emissions by 20%
Copenhageners should be able to
sleep peacefully, free from
harmful traffic-induced noise. All
schools and institutions should be
subject to only low traffic noise
levels.
The air should be clean enough
not to damage Copenhageners‘
health.
Copenhagen emits a
combined total of 2.4 million
tons, or 4.9 tons per
inhabitant (2005 figures).
There are no current
measurements for traffic
noise levels at night. About
40 000 dwellings are subject
to excessive noise levels; 10
schools and 20 institutions are
subject to excessive noise
from street traffic.
In 2005, the limit for daily
average value for PM10 (50
μg/m3) was exceeded 64