TOUR2012/13EUROPE

Connie Hedegaard

“This is exactly what we need. Such an initiative helps move the agenda forward on all fronts, including on research and education.

“I am pleased that TOUR2012EUROPE will continue this work all the way to 2020. There is lots of potential for energy savings, which are waiting to be explored if knowledge and techno- logy are better deployed. – I wish you every success with the tour.”

Nicolai Wammen

“An awareness campaign as TOUR2012EUROPE is helping to put a positive focus on the climate change agenda, and what can be done locally to reduce CO2 emissions. I am pleased that TOUR2012EUROPE is a long term event, conducted every second year until 2020 including all 27 EU coun- tries. Hence, we maintain our focus on the important climate agenda. With the upcoming Danish EU Presidency and the government’s ambitious climate targets TOUR2012EUROPE represents an ideal platform for achieving broad exposure of the Green Denmark to citizens and decision makers within businesses and policy throughout Europe.”

Yvo de Boer

KPMG’s Special Global Advisor,
Climate Change a Sustainability

“With the advances made at the UN climate change conference in Dur- ban, we are heading in a direction in which technological development becomes a key component of global efforts to combat climate change. The new commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, its market mechanisms and the Green Climate Fund are well placed to contribute to global deployment of climate mitigation and adaptation technologies. Clean energy invest- ments hit a record-setting €185 billion in 2010, a 30 percent increase over 2009 figures, primarily led by China, Germany and the United States. Given a right framework, these figures are expected to rise rapidly, with the ma- jority to come from private investors. The TOUR2012EUROPE series of green business exhibitions is an important initiative to help business, government and investors get down to the business of making clean technology work.”