Sustainability: not at any cost! Danes are green, but not crazy: sustainability could not be more important than safety or than the results of the conference. The priorities were the following:
1. Safety
2. Results of the event, of the debates
3. Showcase of green technologies to stimulate their development
4. Sustainability of the event

What was done?

- More than 65% of food was organic and all the coffee was organic too. The water served was tapwater bottled onsite.

- 127 green cars and limos were imported from Germany. Interesting to hear from Jan-Christoph that importing them was CO2-costly, but was a way to help green technologies be used, seen, tried. This clearly follows objective 3 in the list above

- From the airport, delegates were encouraged to take public transport. All delegates got a free public transport pass. This also helped keep traffic limited during a large conference…

- PINs were handed out to delegates, saying “I drink tap water and save 99% CO2” for instance, an interesting way to communicate.

- No gifts were handed out, and the money saved financed the sustainability studies of 11 students from all around the world.

- LED lights were imported for the conference, and will remain in Denmark for rent for other events.

- The CO2 emissions of the event were compensated, including transport to Copenhagen, while the UN only request local emissions to be compensated by the host country.

- Cisco set up 75 meeting rooms for virtual conferences all around the world, and eight in the Bella Center.

- 15.000m2 of recyclable carpet were used.