Meet Marius Sylvestersen (2/2)

Marius is the Chief Innovation Officer at University of Copenhagen. He has been driving sustainable change at government and city-level since Denmark hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in 2009. Marius has a background in social science and is a thought leader on innovation, smart city, and the green economy. He also served as Director of the Smart City Program at the City of Copenhagen between 2015 and 2021. You said that the first step to becoming a carbon-neutral city is to transform its energy system. How did Copenhagen achieve this? Basically the Danish and the Copenhagen model is to rely heavily on wind power. We have a legacy of working with wind turbines that dates back to the seventies when we had two oil crises that hit Denmark pretty severely. At that time a couple of companies started to work with the first types of wind turbines. Obviously, we now have Vestas and other big companies working with that so at the moment more than 50% of our electricity comes from wind power, which is the highest in the world. <a href="https://medium.com/urban-ai/meet-marius-sylvestersen-2-2-f5268c2e8358">Website</a>