HAMBURG READY TO BE THE GREEN EUROPEAN CAPITAL 2011

Hamburg aspires to be more sustainable future. The selection to be the Green European Capital in 2011 gave place to a wide range of measures to foment the process of the sustainable development in the city and to attack the effects of the climatic change. Hamburg can support the project of regeneration HafenCity and the factory Airbus as examples of economic progress in a foundation of agreeable environment. From 1990, the city has reduced the emission of CO2 in 15 per cent. It is waiting for a more significant reduction in the future, of 40 per cent in 2020 and of 80 per cent in 2050. The city will foment the boarding of the sustainable tourism with more investments in the public transport, the introduction of buses stimulated by hydrogen, without gas emissions and a city with a wide program of rent of bicycles for tourists. www.hamburg-tourism.de