the Royal family are masters of reminding others of their responsibility to ensure the ailing environment.
Extra Magazine’s review of the royal speeches in recent years reveals that Margrethe and crown prince expresses seemingly sincere concern for the escalating emissions of greenhouse gases, both to the companies, heads of state and the danes.
the Climate concern is hot air.
Although the royal family in a statement to ekstrabladet claim that they use their common sense, cost their high standard of living expensive to the environment.
the Royal family: Using common sense
the Extra Leaf has been addressed to the royal court to ask why the minister and co. do not save on CO2 emissions, since they care about the climate.
– We use our common sense and thinking every time, what mode of transport is most appropriate to use in relation to the individual event, informs the Royal family’s communications department.
the Royal family prefer comfort above anything else, and it is often at the expense of the climate, when, for example, they travel for up to 35 times with Defence aircraft and helicopter in one year, the fire go up the chimney and keeps the private holiday on the CO2 bomb It.
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Here is the royal green words
the Queen of the metro opening in 2019
– No one knows how the capital will look like in 100 years. But we know that these tunnels will twist under the city and offer quick and sustainable transport for the people in the generations to come.
Photo: Anthon Unger
the Queen’s new year speech in 2018:
– Therefore, we must listen carefully to the young people, when we are discussing how we can avoid that challenge the balance in nature. We must have consideration for the future. We need to think about in a timely manner.
In Greenland melts the ice. Here are the changes also evident.
Photo: Mads Nissen
the Queen to China’s præsidentpar in 2012
– In these years there is no challenge, well more current than climate change and global warming. Here, Denmark and China have much to gain by standing together in the efforts to counter climate change.
Photo: Finn Frandsen/Ritzau Scanpix
the crown prince at the Polish state visit in 2019
– Energy and climate are especially important areas in the Polish-Danish relationship. Danish and Polish companies are now taking each other in hand to develop offshore wind turbines in the Baltic sea.
– It is a win-win situation – not only for Poland and Denmark, but also for the global climate.
the crown prince, incidentally, is the patron of State of Green – a Danish public-private partnership that puts the focus on global climate and environmental challenges.
Photo: Kacper Pempel/Ritzau Scanpix
crown princess Houston, Texas 2019
– I think quiet that you can say that Denmark today is the global leader in the field of sustainable energy.
– We hold the proud record for having the most wind energy in our energy sector, equivalent to more than 40 percent last year.
Photo: Daniel Kramer/Ritzau Scanpix
Here is the royal family’s CO2 emissions
shuttles
The queen flew according to the Defense three days in a row back and forth between the Marselisborg and Copenhagen with Defence helicopter EH-101 in the summer, when she lived on the aarhus slot.
26. June she met Mette Frederiksen and Lars Løkke Rasmussen, and the day after she met the new and the outgoing government.
28. June watched she the band of the life årsdagsparade.
the Queen also used the Defence helicopter earlier in the year, when she in February and flew two times from the Fredensborg Castle to Jutland and back again and one more time from Kastrup airport and to Paderborn, which is located centrally in Germany, between Hanover and Dortmund.
Photo: Kristian Linnemann
Flying grandma
Number of trips with Defence’s EH-101 helicopter and CL-604 Challenger aircraft
35
25
13
18
26
26*
(Source: Defense)
*Note: up To and including the third quarter
Photo: Chris Jackson//Ritzau Scanpix
CO2 bomb Dannebrog
the Royal family sputters tons of CO2 out of the Dannebrog.
It shows figures from the Defense worked by the Dea.
the Only service in 2018 resulted in the ship’s diesel engines emitted 589 tonnes of CO2, equivalent to 31 residents ‘ consumption in a year.
According to the green think tank Concito emit a dane, an average of 19 tonnes of CO2 per year.
Photo: Jens Dresling
Double-discharge
on several occasions, both flying and sailing the royal to remote destinations.
It is valid according to information from the Defense, for example, a Margrethe’s and prince Henrik’s visit to Greenland in 2015, Margrethes visit on the Faroe islands in 2016, and her visit to Estonia in 2019.
Thus was the king in the summer sail the Dannebrog Tallinn, in good time, so that the 78 meter long ship was for today, when Margaret landed with Defence Challenger aircraft in the Estonian airport.
On the way to be able to Margrethe ‘arrive’ to Estonia on the Dannebrog by driving from the airport and board on the cabinet, which only was used for the official visit to arrival and a final-hour front desk.
Photo: Martin Lehmann
On the black family vacation
in Addition, using the royal family members also It for private travel.
For example, the inferred crown prince and crown princess 46 tonnes of CO2 last year, when they chartered It for a private cruise in Danish waters.
Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
the Firing of the sparrows
Slots and the Danish agency for culture heats up thousands of square meters in the castles, the royal family has at its disposal.
It also applies in Sorgenfri Slot, where the main building has been empty since 1995, and the Hermitage museum, as the royal family only uses a few times a year.
the Castles are warmed up to room temperature, when the royal family uses them, and they are kept according to the Slots – and the Danish agency for culture by a minimum of 10 degrees, when not in use, so as to avoid, to the furniture and walls are infected with mold.
Photo: Aleksander Klug
