Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent, and mitigating climate change and its impacts will require global commitment, enormous resources and innovative ideas and processes. Danish consulting engineers contribute to the fight against climate change when working with national and local governments to adapt to and mitigate the significant impacts of climate change, including changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and extreme weather events. We work with national and local governments to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters, to integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning, and to institutional strengthening and capacity building on climate adaptation, mitigation and impact reduction, etc.
PROJECT: CLIMATE RESILIENCE TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA
With 85 percent of Papua New Guinea’s 7 million people relying on agriculture, the hazards caused by climate changes are severely impacting peoples' livelihood. NTU’s team is providing a range of services, including technical assistance, capacity building and climate impact assessments, to help determine best-case practice for climate proofing the country’s rural bridges and coastal assets. In the provinces of Bougainvillea, East New Britain, Manus, Milne Bay and Morobe Provences, the vast deterioration of the costal assets is currently affecting roughly 13,000 households. In order to ensure their future safety, climate resilient solutions will have to be applied along the coast. NTU’s team is designing and implementing appropriate engineering standards to accommodate the impact of climate change.
COUNTRY: PAPUE NEW GUINEA
COMPANY: NTU INTERNATIONAL A/S
SECONDARY GOALS: 9, 11 & 16
PROJECT: CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM (CDM) PROGRAM – DANISH ENERGY AGENCY, MINISTRY OF CLIMATE AND ENERGY
The Danish Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) program in Malaysia has provided an important incentive for project owners to develop green and sustainable climate projects. Once projects were designated, DEM assisted the Danish Embassy throughout their negotiations regarding their Letter of Intent (LoI) and Emissions Reduction Purchase Agreement (ERPA) as well as participating in monitoring on-going CDM projects generating Certi ed Emission Reductions (CERs) for Denmark. For the Danish Embassy in Malaysia, DEM provided relevant technical advice on climate change, including information on market trends, methodology, developments, etc. that would contribute to triple bottom line sustainability with relation to people, planet and profit.
COUNTRY: MALAYSIA
COMPANY: DEM
SECONDARY GOALS: 7, 11 & 17
PROJECT: PROFESSIONALIZING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE FOR NOVO NORDISK
NIRAS has developed an EP&L (Environmental Profit & Loss account) and corporate carbon account for Novo Nordisk and assessed the company’s dependency on environmental impacts such as greenhouse gasses, air polluting particulates and water consumption. Consequently, Novo Nordisk revised its strategy and is now putting equal emphasis on tackling environmental challenges at key suppliers and on optimizing environmental opportunities related to own operations. Speci c actions initiated, based on the account, ranges from installation of renewable energy, conversion to less pollutions and more efficient technologies, improvement of waste management and take-back schemes as well as implementation of new circular business models. The EP&L methodology is in high demand, also in developing countries.
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COMPANY: NIRAS A/S
SECONDARY GOALS: 6, 7 & 12
PROJECT: FINANCING LOW CARBON, CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Ramboll has been working with the Asian Development Bank to develop a methodology to predict climate impacts on urban infrastructure as well as predict the carbon profiles of cities. Ramboll’s approach has put an emphasis upon the use of an “archetype city” with the specific cities being Tbilisi, Ulaanbaatar, Ho Chi Minh City, Suva, Dhaka, and Mandalay. For each of the cities, infrastructure and climate vulnerability have been assessed and investment needs prioritised.
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COMPANY: RAMBØLL DANMARK A/S
SECONDARY GOALS: 9 & 11