 Thank you Ladies and gentlemen, good morning What a venue what an exciting program what a wonderful host you are here in Tokyo? I'm Lars Taglison CEO at who for greater Copenhagen utility Thank you for inviting me to present We as a multi utility contribute to make our city sustainable and liveable also Let me first Introduce you to who for we are the largest utility company in Denmark with 1300 employees serving one million customers We are fully owned by Copenhagen Municipality and surrounding stability around Copenhagen also in before we are supplying drinking water waste water Stormwater services district heating district cooling Town gas and renewable energy to our customers We are operate operating under strictly governmental regulation on efficiency and by prevented and by preventing smart solution We maintain our services green safe and cheap We signed the principles for water wise in Brisbane in Brisbane year 2016 and Include the SGGs in in our business strategies as well Let me start by looking back at major achievements in the past then continue with the present days activities Modern utility in Denmark test is starting point at the cholera epidemic during the summer of 1853 Which claim about 5% of the city's population in Denmark and in the Copenhagen doctors and engineers wanted That the city was vulnerable Wound that the city was one one one vulnerable to the cholera Which was infesting cities all over Europe through the mid-1800 Introducing centralized water supply replacing the old wooden pipes with cast-iron pipes and Soaring the city made the city resilience to further attacks from many infectious in intestinal diseases The brick sewer on the right side here From is from 1866 is today one of our cloud birds outlets to the harbor of Copenhagen The intervention was successful and cholera never returned to Copenhagen. That's really old pictures. I can see now Bartholomew Copenhagen a harbor was popular for hundreds of years here. You can see the emerging conflicts between swimmers and ships and In the 1950s the water quality in the harbor was so poor that swimming and fishing was permanently prohibited During the 1970s and the 80s beaches all over the country experienced closure and fishermen caught dead fishes and dead lobsters as well a National plan to protect all receiving water was were implemented by all net Danish municipalities between 1970 and year 2000 Copenhagen prepared a sewer as sewer master plan leading to construction of retention basins Closing of overflows to recipients and construction of three wastewater treatment plans Here's your own a construction of retention retention basins in 1970 said 1997 with a volume volume of 30,000 cubic meters the result in Copenhagen was opening of city bathing areas in 2002 and Permission to catch Pelagic fish in 2005 no diseases outbreaks have been recorded related to bathing or fishing in Copenhagen harbor till today water consumption in Copenhagen grew quickly from 1860 and on onwards in and and onwards and it's a 1970 it came close to 200 liter Per day the household consumption was generally 60 or 65 percent of the total consumption Through the 1970s water meters were installed at our old buildings Which together with increase in water tariffs and better leakage control? reduced water consumption dramatically water savings campaign Further reduced to consumption and the daily per capita consumption means now On and moving below the target of 100 liter per day Copenhagen municipality has prepared a climate plan in connection with cup 15 that took place in Copenhagen in 2009 and this climate plan is still the framework of many of our activities The climate plan is setting targets for mitigation as well as setting up the frame for an adoption plan an Important target in the plan in the climate plan is for Copenhagen to be the first capital in the world to be carbon neutral And how is who for contributing to achieve this to achieving this goal? But in this week eating I can first inform you that in Denmark all household waste is in in series and Converted into heat and power We are also converting from natural gas or coal to biomass in Existing power station, and we are now replacing the old district heating system district heating system in Copenhagen which was based on steam and it's now based on hot water and With better it insulated pipes. We have a much lower loss from the pipes overall result is Estimated to be that 80% of the district heating supply would be carbon neutral in the year 2020 within district cooling a 70% reduction in carbon emission is achieved Compared to individual system among others by using harbour water for cooling Presently about 100 megawatt district cooling and is connected now for town gas biogas from wastewater treatment plants are contributing to Carbon reduction as well presently 30% of town gas is carbon neutral today our work with a new renewable energy includes setting up Windmills, and we are well on the way to our target to have 360 megawatt installed by year 2025 Finally, we are planting forests around our ground water boreholes, and of course we are using electric vehicles For transportation in our company Within water supplies. We believe that we are the capital city with the lowest energy consumption per cubic meter That comes out of that comes out of the tab We are on zero point three kilowatt hour per per cubic meter Part of the reason for having this low energy consumption is our low water loss Our water resource is 100% groundwater based and there's no need to Groundwater based and there's Therefore, there's no need for using chlorination for disinfecting the water We are also promoting that people should drink water from the tap One liter of tap water image 900 time less carbon compared to one liter of water in a plastic bottle tap waters general Tap water in general has the lowest content of unwanted chemicals compared to most of the bottled water Therefore consumers are beginning to shift to Usable containers and restaurants are serving tap water in jars instead of plastic bottles we have installed solar panels in all our waterworks and a major sewer pumping stations as well There's here's an example From waterworks where you can see our consumption from the power grid in Year 2014 before installing in the solar panels After the panels were installed you can see what we are drawing down to zero from the grid on a good sunny day And we do have sunny days in Denmark as you know and It's all solar power based On an annual basic this has sold resulted in a 25% reduction in the power bought from the grid Go making city prepared a climate adaption plan following extreme extreme rain events in the city And it's this adaption plan plan is addressing the issue of more and heavier rainfall Rising sea level and the fact that the weather is getting warmer in our city in July 2011 we Experienced a serious cloudburst that made Copenhagen look like Venice This was a real game changer impacting citizens and politicians and making people aware that this was something we needed to do something about The losses were high when the rain was running into basement flooding them and damaged properties With over 90,000 insurance claims the public awareness of climate change increased and the governmental And the government is responded with new legislation legislation starting Stating the making the city resilient against cloudburst should be financed through the water bill In close cooperation with who for the municipality prepared a cloudburst management plan Identifying over 300 projects on public land and further hundreds of projects on private land private streets and housing estates Every project from a small green street to metrocytes tunnel has now a role in realizing the comprehensive plan The plan in the plan provides investment levels that are feasible related to the potential lost the coming 100 years And stays the magnitude of rain the city should be protected against The cloudburst management plan is defining how to utility how utility is Responsible for pipes and tunnels on public land, which is traditional business for us The city take care takes care of your urban space and improvements, which means interventions about ground The private land owners have to protect their own structures against water up to a certain level and finance it themselves Who for is also implementing green streets and providing roof water for urban waterscapes This is a new challenge for your utility, but both intervention contributes To handling rain where it falls and minimize the center centralized cloudburst transportation system It further contributes the cool to the city during the hot summers and makes it in the year-round More attractive and livable to the citizens We find a great great benefit from letting our young young water professional participate and contribute to the activities in Iowa Young water professionals are other we are where young professionals are meeting across countries and professions We support and participate in the annual two-week Copenhagen urban lab and the three-week course in urbanization and health At Copenhagen University Where the results were impressive innovating and inspiring for us Emergent Water leaders must understand how to contribute resiliency and livability with means which means being able to communicate and cooperate with other professionals than your own from different entities University utility manufacturers contractors and be inspired across country as well a Mutual utility can contribute to mitigation and the adoption and describe above But the new challenges will be around the corner all the time and doing our daily work will be to be combined With a high degree of alert flexibility and innovation protection of public health Was and will always be a main objective of a utility Without provision of basic services and in a reliable and affordable way the citizens health will be challenged taking a bike ride To the harbor for relaxing or jumping into the clean harbour water has become a symbol of livability in Copenhagen, and I hope I see you all in year 2020. Thank you for your attention