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COWI to sponsor climate congress 

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COWI is experiencing a growing interest in traditional, climate-related services, such as sustainable energy.
COWI is making a generous contribution to a climate congress in March 2009, where researchers from all over the globe will gather in the Danish capital of Copenhagen to discuss climate change.

Prior to the climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, climate and energy researchers from all over the world will gather to discuss climate changes at a climate congress in Copenhagen in March 2009. COWI is one of a number of major sponsors supporting the event.

COWI's range of expertise profiled at one location

"We are sponsoring this event to showcase the many climate-related services that we offer, and to illustrate the spectrum of our consultancy expertise on anything from environmental issues to energy and infrastructure projects," says Lars-Peter Søbye, Executive Vice President, Denmark.

"Rather than sponsoring several events, we have chosen to profile ourselves at a single location. It makes sense for us to be active on the research side of things, where researchers meet, rather than in the political arena of the climate summit."

How can CO2 emissions be reduced?

The University of Copenhagen has taken the initiative to gather some of the world's leading scientists to present the latest advances in research, well ahead of the crucial climate summit.

At the climate congress, researchers will attempt to answer questions on how, and to what degree CO2 emissions, can be reduced; how technology can contribute in the form of alternative energy sources; and how people can be encouraged to reduce their carbon footprint.

Growing interest in climate-related services

In respect of the demand for our traditional, climate-related services, such as engineering, environmental science and economics, almost all of COWI's departments are currently experiencing that customers have a particular focus on the effects of climate change and its consequences. Projects can take the form of new sewage systems, sustainable energy and housing.

By Christina Tækker, cht@cowi.dk
Published: 03.03.2008


Facts about the climate congress 

The University of Copenhagen is arranging the climate congress in close cooperation with an alliance of some of the world's leading universities, such as Australia's National University, the universities of Berkeley and Yale in the USA, and ETH in Zürich, Tokyo, Singapore, Peking, Cambridge and Oxford. The alliance is called the International Alliance of Research Universities.

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