Domestic windmills and industrial grade wind turbines already provide 7% of the electricity. The Danish Ministry of Energy is confident that this will have risen to 50% by 2030

Denmark now exports windmills to 35 countries and manufactures 50% of the world’s windmills

Half of all its waste is recycled

80% of the paper it uses is recycled paper

Businesses pay a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. The revenue is used to finance energy conservation and efficiency projects

Government-guaranteed additive-free foods now crowd out chemically-treated foods on supermarket shelves

More than 6,000 miles of cycleways have been built and car parks have been turned into cycle parks. Copenhagen operates a penny-in-the-slot bicycle hire scheme

A 9.5-mile $2 billion transport link between Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmo was delayed for years by environmental concerns. In the end an artificial island was built at considerable additional expense to enable a tunnel to be built under the sea so as not to disturb the fragile marine environment

Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens amusement park is now Greening its activities: bringing its heating and lighting systems under central control; converting its vehicles to run on electricity; turning its kitchen waste into feed for 1,400 pigs; monitoring the watering of its acres of flowerbeds; and clearing up its algae-choked lake

The 4,400 residents of the island of Samso have unanimously volunteered to live a decade from now on nothing but solar, wind and biomass energy from organic waste and agricultural surplus