The government’s more ambitious targets for CO₂ reductions require new technologies, but also a new tax structure that will serve as an incentive to use types of energy with the lowest CO₂ emissions, says CITIES’ Henrik Madsen.

The government’s more ambitious targets for CO₂ reductions require new technologies, but also a new tax structure that will serve as an incentive to use types of energy with the lowest CO₂ emissions.

For technology, the green transition cannot do without the right policy – and vice versa. This is the message in the presentation that Professor Henrik Madsen, DTU Compute, will give at Ajour 2019 – the Danish Engineers´ Association’s annual trade fair. (Maskinmesternes Forening.)

In Ajourmagasinet Henrik Madsen tells more about his upcoming presentation ‘Intelligent energy – an acceleration of the green transition through digitalisation’. The presentation is based, among other things, on a memo that a CITIES task force has recently send to the Danish Energy Agency and politicians on how dynamic CO₂ taxes can support the green transition.

Read the article (Danish version) in Ajourmagasinet here.

Read the note ‘Energy Taxes for the Future’ (Danish version) here

Here you can read more about Ajour 2019, which takes place on Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 at the Odense Congress Center