Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is not yet committed to attend.
Does your country have a Rio+20 preparatory committee?
Denmark's Ministry of the Environment is leading the Rio+20 committee.
Has your country completed a sustainable development review?
Denmark has conducted a sustainable development review since Rio 1992.
Is your country planning on announcing new initiatives at Rio?
Denmark initiated the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF), promoting innovative public-private partnerships in biofuels, international trade, renewable energy, and energy efficiency
Denmark, China, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates recently launched a Global Sustainable Cities Network, to be a platform for pioneering urban sustainability efforts. The initial focus areas include waste-to-energy and city-level demand management.
Denmark, Germany, and Spain released a global renewable resource atlas that maps the potential for solar and wind energy across the world. They also announced plans to assess the cost-effectiveness of those resources in different countries, based on energy prices, project finance costs, and available incentives.
References
Summit-Watcher Yiting Wang, NRDC
Responses provided by a country delegate. For more information, visit the official Denmark page.
