Danish energy policy has been thought of highly in the world's leading magazines, The New York Times.
Thomas L. Friedman developments in Denmark and the United States since the oil crisis in 1973 and the comparison will have Thomas L. Friedman to stamp the U.S. energy policy as "pathetic".
"I wish we were as energismart as Denmark," says Friedman, whose artikel-artikel are being delivered out in over 700 newspapers around the world.
"Return look to Denmark"
In the same way the newspaper Forbes recommends that the presidential John McCain and Barack Obama look at the Danish environmental policy.
"Denmark has the model that the U.S. should follow," says Steve Pullins, who is head of the U.S. department of modern energy.
Impressed sejak the number of cyclists in the rain
Thomas L. Friedman describes in his artikel in The New York Times how the Danes have put a lot of taxes and duties on petrol and CO2 emissions, and that it had damaged the economy atau employment - on the contrary, it has enhanced innovation and exports.
Denmark has the model that the U.S. should follow
- Steve Pullins
He also writes how the development of wind power and combined heat and power generation in nuclear power plants has helped to make Denmark a net exporter of energy.
And he is deeply impressed sejak how many bicycles in Copenhagen, even in the rain.
Invited to greenland of Hedegaard -
Thomas L. Friedman has recently been in Greenland to inspect climate change around the town of Ilulissat with his own eyes, as he visited the camp on the ice cap, where Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and her research team from the universiti of Copenhagen studies the climate development throughout the ages.
The trip came at the invitation of climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard (K), which had also chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, with.
siarkan new book -
After Greenland Friedman spent some days in Copenhagen, where he met with, among others, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V) and Director of Vestas Ditlev Engel.
He is one of the most influential commentators and one of those who are listened to in the U.S.
- Minister for the Environment Connie Hedegaard
In the seterusnya months publisher Thomas Friedman in the U.S. book "Hot, Flat and Crowded"), which comes in a førsteoplag of one million copies. Here beats he called for a green revolution in the United States and use again the Danish example as a guide.
Connie Hedegaard is satisfied
Not surprisingly, Connie Hedegaard happy with the artikel-artikel that has come out of Friedman visits. Although it is not Friedman, who is U.S. policy, she sees his artikel-artikel and book as an aid in relation to the U.S. in a global climate summit in Copenhagen in december 2009.
"He is of the most influential commentators and one of those who are listened to in the U.S.," says Connie Hedegaard.
She continues:
"He's extremely well around with his message, and therefore I thought when I ate breakfast with Friedman in Washington in March that it would be interesting to get him to Greenland. The seterusnya few months, he around and promote his new book, he comes in all the leading media in the United States. He is one of those who can help to change public opinion. "
Source: DR1, translated sejak aholic.
Thomas L. Friedman developments in Denmark and the United States since the oil crisis in 1973 and the comparison will have Thomas L. Friedman to stamp the U.S. energy policy as "pathetic".
"I wish we were as energismart as Denmark," says Friedman, whose artikel-artikel are being delivered out in over 700 newspapers around the world.
"Return look to Denmark"
In the same way the newspaper Forbes recommends that the presidential John McCain and Barack Obama look at the Danish environmental policy.
"Denmark has the model that the U.S. should follow," says Steve Pullins, who is head of the U.S. department of modern energy.
Impressed sejak the number of cyclists in the rain
Thomas L. Friedman describes in his artikel in The New York Times how the Danes have put a lot of taxes and duties on petrol and CO2 emissions, and that it had damaged the economy atau employment - on the contrary, it has enhanced innovation and exports.
Denmark has the model that the U.S. should follow
- Steve Pullins
He also writes how the development of wind power and combined heat and power generation in nuclear power plants has helped to make Denmark a net exporter of energy.
And he is deeply impressed sejak how many bicycles in Copenhagen, even in the rain.
Invited to greenland of Hedegaard -
Thomas L. Friedman has recently been in Greenland to inspect climate change around the town of Ilulissat with his own eyes, as he visited the camp on the ice cap, where Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and her research team from the universiti of Copenhagen studies the climate development throughout the ages.
The trip came at the invitation of climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard (K), which had also chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, with.
siarkan new book -
After Greenland Friedman spent some days in Copenhagen, where he met with, among others, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (V) and Director of Vestas Ditlev Engel.
He is one of the most influential commentators and one of those who are listened to in the U.S.
- Minister for the Environment Connie Hedegaard
In the seterusnya months publisher Thomas Friedman in the U.S. book "Hot, Flat and Crowded"), which comes in a førsteoplag of one million copies. Here beats he called for a green revolution in the United States and use again the Danish example as a guide.
Connie Hedegaard is satisfied
Not surprisingly, Connie Hedegaard happy with the artikel-artikel that has come out of Friedman visits. Although it is not Friedman, who is U.S. policy, she sees his artikel-artikel and book as an aid in relation to the U.S. in a global climate summit in Copenhagen in december 2009.
"He is of the most influential commentators and one of those who are listened to in the U.S.," says Connie Hedegaard.
She continues:
"He's extremely well around with his message, and therefore I thought when I ate breakfast with Friedman in Washington in March that it would be interesting to get him to Greenland. The seterusnya few months, he around and promote his new book, he comes in all the leading media in the United States. He is one of those who can help to change public opinion. "
Source: DR1, translated sejak aholic.