COOL Campaign at CPH

"Copenhagen Airport has reduced CO2 emissions per passager by 65 per cent since 1990."
"By 2012, electrical power consumption at Copenhagen Airport will be cut by ten per cent, an amount corresponding to the power consumption of 1100 Danish households."

In the months up to the UN climate conference in Denmark this December, messages and facts like these will appear on signs and banners in Copenhagen Airport terminals as the airport deploys its CO(2)OL Travel campaign to inform passengers of its own environmental and climate conservation efforts.

Copenhagen Airport: An environmentally responsible enterprise
"As a large-scale operation and workplace in the transport sector, we are responsible for the emission of a substantial amount of CO2, but we are also an environmentally responsible enterprise. In recent years, we have implemented various schemes that help reduce CO2 emissions from the airport's activities, and we'll be pushing even harder in the next few months with a number of new energy-related initiatives," said Henrik Peter Jørgensen, VP for Communications at Copenhagen Airports A/S.

"In the run-up to the climate summit in Copenhagen, we'll be telling passengers about some of our own climate initiatives and results, and we want to do it in a simple and down-to-earth way, through our CO(2)OL Travel campaign," Jørgensen explained.

Super-sized globe decorates Terminal 3
Passengers will also have the opportunity to see a giant decorated globe on the airport's Terminal 3 balcony as part of the international art exhibit entitled "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet".

The exhibition features 28 super-sized globes decorated by different artists and notable personalities, each globe offering specific messages about what each of us can do to reduce global warming and ensure a better climate.

Supported by US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Cool Globes has its origins in Chicago. In connection with the IOC meeting in Copenhagen, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley formally handed the exhibition over to Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard, after which the exhibition's first globe - created by artist Carol Giannasi - was set up on the Terminal 3 balcony.

Cool Globes will be using all of Copenhagen as its exhibition hall, including the city's Metro stations and main city squares. The official opening of the exhibition is 13 November 2009, by which time all the globes will have arrived in Copenhagen.

The Cool Globes exhibition has toured six US cities so far, with a total of more than five million visitors attending this free event.

Read more about Cool Globes at http://www.coolglobes.com/