Copenhagen’s Carbon Neutral Greenwashing

Mikael Colville-Andersen
11 min readMar 6, 2022

It was back in 2012 that Copenhagen started its journey to becoming “the world’s first carbon neutral capital by 2025”. Right off the bat, I’d like you to notice my use of quotation marks. Shortly after it was announced, the hype about this municipal goal gained considerable media purchase. It swelled and swelled for years until it became a hype tsunami. It’s been absolutely everywhere, in a veritable labyrinth of…

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Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urban designer, author and host of the global documentary series about urbanism, The Life-Sized City. Impatient Idealist.