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Public Seminar
SUSTAINABILITY TURNED INSIDE OUT What is sustainability and why do we keep talking about it? CBS Sustainability Platform invited students to the seminar âSustainability Turned Inside Outâ on October 8 to discuss and learn more about the different aspects of how the public and private sectors as well as academia work with sustainability. Furthermore, the presenters were invited to offer advice on what students should focus on to achieve a career within sustainability.
By Line Pedini Rasmussen, Research Assistant, CBS Sustainability Platformjis.dbp@cbs.dk The topics of inter-sector partnerships and the cross-disciplinary aspects of sustainability were highlighted by Niels Carsten Bluhme, Michael Johansen and Alan Irwin. Niels Carsten Bluhme, Area Director for City, Environment and Labor in Albertslund Municipality underscored the importance of partnerships for the success of green transition. In the upcoming years, the city of Albertslund needs to undertake a thorough renovation of buildings and infrastructure opening up for opportunities to use the city as a living lab to move towards a more sustainable city.
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More people are moving into the cities â a tendency that demands responsible growth. In Albertslund alone, the population has increased from 3,000 inhabitants to 30,000 in just 8 years. There is an âenormous responsibility by the public sector to participate in growth in Denmark because of the high taxation level. Without growth we will not have a sustainable future,â argued Bluhme. The municipality has engaged in partnership with several institutions of higher education and platforms specialized in sustainability such as Gate21, Green Cities and Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster.