Carbon Neutrality: idealism or realistic goal?

My next story for the Journalisthøjskolen is on the goal of Århus to become carbon neutral by 2030. Carbon neutrality means reducing a city's net carbon footprint to zero. The island we'll be visiting in two weeks, Samsø, is completely carbon neutral. They're the largest city in the world to become carbon neutral, though they only have 4,200 citizens.

We'll be focusing on why this goal is difficult to achieve. In the presentation we listened to a few weeks back, the presenter said the main obstacle was not government funding, which has increased exponentially in the last few years, but citizen involvement. We are prepared to hit the streets, asking citizens about how they plan to help achieve this goal, or why they don't care to participate.

We won't be able to take a trip to Copenhagen for this trip, but I found an interesting article and video about a carbon neutral building at the University of Copenhagen. Check it out.

Århus is not the only municipality in Denmark to set goals for carbon neutrality. The Sønderborg municipality also has a plan to become carbon neutral by 2029. Their plan is called ProjectZero. We'll have to see if they are finding similar problems to Århus.

More to follow...