SEMANTIC TOOLS FOR CARBON REDUCTION IN URBAN PLANNING Co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme Copenhagen Sustainable city - The Copenhagen way  The North Harbour, Copenhagen, Denmark As an urban development project, the North Harbour shows how  cities can be both environmentally and economically sustainable  without losing out on quality of life or welfare. The North Harbour  will be a CO2 friendly city, and a place where it is easy to have a  green conscience. It will be easy to utilize environmentally  sustainable energy, heating and cooling solutions both in  businesses and private homes. District heating and cooling is planned to cover the entire area and  allows for flexibility in terms of supply technologies. In the short  term, well-known and well-tested sustainable energy sources will  be used. In the long term, the district energy infrastructure and  connected heat storage will ensure that the North Harbour will be able to use the future's most appropriate  sustainable technologies and sources of energy, for instance solar energy, wind energy and  geothermal heat extracted from the ground deep below the North Harbour. Also groundwater and are planned to be  used for cooling purposes.   Power consumption in the North Harbour will be kept at a minimum through the building design and the integration  of information technology to control and monitoring. Building and infrastructure will be subject to environmental  impact assessment and will be designed on the basis of principles aimed at keeping resource consumption, waste  production and negative environmental impact to a minimum.   The electricity required will be generated by wind turbines and, in the long term, also by solar cells. The future city  district of the North Harbour will be a world leader in the use of sustainable technologies.   Blog  |  GIS  |