Sponsors
Premium Sponsors
Novozymes is the world leader in bioinnovation. Together with customers across a broad array of industries we create tomorrow’s industrial biosolutions, improving our customers’ business and the use of our planet’s resources. In Novozymes, we aim at influencing opinion-leaders and COP15 decisions-makers towards an ambitious protocol. The COP15 conference constitutes a unique opportunity to position sustainable technologies, and an opportunity for Novozymes to brand our bio-technologies, our products, our company and our overall sustainability business model.
For further information, visit www.novozymes.com
Vestas installed its first wind turbine in 1979 and has since played an active role in the fast-moving wind power industry. With a 23 per cent market share, Vestas is the No. 1 supplier of modern energy solutions. We have installed more than 35,000 wind turbines in 63 countries on five continents. We install an average of one wind turbine every four hours, twenty-four hours a day. In fact, our wind turbines generate more than 60 million MWh of energy per year, or enough electricity to supply millions of households.
For further information, visit www.vestas.com
Greening Partner and Official Carrier
SAS wants to create a responsible and sustainable traffic growth as well as reduce the environmental
impact. This can be read in a new environmental strategy agreed on in March 2008. The goal is a 20 %
reduction in emissions in 2020. An ambitious environmental strategy which means a 50% reduction in
CO2 emissions in 2020 per passenger kilometre. This goal must be reached through a specific effort
on a number of isolated areas, for instance new technology, better exploitation of the aircrafts, more
efficient and direct flights, green landings, fuel save programmes, an increase in replacement of the
aircrafts and several other initiatives.
SAS takes on an active role in the environmental debate and through the commitment in Greening
Event Partner and Official Carrier wants to work towards a reduced environmental impact. SAS works
towards CO2 compensation of air travel in connection to COP15 and all conferences in this partnership.
This will be carried out by buying CO2 reduction in renewable energy projects in a scale which
matches the air travels in connection to the conferences.
For further information, visit www.sas.dk
Media Partner
Berlingske Tidende is one of the oldest newspapers in Europe with a history of more than 259 years of publishing and has more than 300,000 readers every day. Despite the solid and historical roots, the newspaper has managed to renew itself over the years - and some of the most extensive and successful renewal processes in Danish media over the last few years have been carried out at Berlingske Tidende. Latest the integration of print and web, berlingske.dk, was implemented to ensure that we as a media house are able to communicate with readers and users around the clock.
Editorially, we constantly make sure to be frontrunners on news and to provide the best coverage on the large topics – one of them being the climate challenges. We have organized a task force crosswise of the editorial newsrooms to ensure the necessary insight and dept in our coverage.
For further information, visit www.berlingske.dk
Supporters
The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation is an institution under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
The Agency's activities deal with, among other things:
- Public research funding.
- Researcher mobility.
- Dialogue on priorities in research and technology initiatives.
- Regionalisation of research and innovation.
- Commercialisation of research.
- Interaction between knowledge institutions and the business community.
- Innovation policy.
- EU research policy.
- International co-operation on research and innovation.
- Research dissemination, etc.
The Agency also functions as secretariat to the Danish Research Coordination Committee, the Danish Councils for Independent Research, the Danish Council for Strategic Research, the Danish Council for Technology and Innovation, the Danish Research Policy Council and the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty.
For further information, visit www.fi.dk
With over 37,000 students and more than 7,000 employees, the University of Copenhagen is the largest institution of research and education in Denmark. The purpose of the University – to quote the University Statute – is to ’conduct research and provide further education to the highest academic level’. Approximately one hundred different institutes, departments, laboratories, centres, museums, etc., form the nucleus of the University, where professors, lecturers and other academic staff, as well as most of the technical and administrative personnel, carry out their daily work, and where teaching takes place.
For further information, visit www.ku.dk/english
Invest in Denmark is part of the Danish Trade Council in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Our mission is to service foreign companies considering the possibility of establishing business operations in Denmark. Through active, focused marketing efforts in North America, Asia and Europe, potential investors are given an insight into the business opportunities that Denmark can offer.
Our overall political goal is to maintain and attract foreign direct investment to Denmark, thereby strengthening the globalisation of Danish business and increasing the level of competence and knowledge. This leads to improved competitiveness for the Danish business community and contributes to the creation of healthy and attractive jobs.
For further information, visit www.investindk.com
