Summiteers Summit to Save the Himalayas will bring in mountaineering luminaries form Nepal and around the world to Copenhagen to jointly call for the attention of the global community to focus on the perils of climate change in the Himalayas, a global heritage. The program will be organized as an accompanying event of the fifteenth conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to celebrate the International Mountain Day on December 11, 2009. Mountaineering icons, marching in summit gears on the streets of Copenhagen, will be joined by many mountain lovers in issuing a declaration to save the Himalayas from the impacts of climate change.

The program starts at 11.00 on Christiansborg Slotsplads and at 11.30 there will be a peaceful march to Kongens Nytorv and back. Between 12.30 and 13.30 there will be speeches and entertainment on Christiansborg Slotsplads. Several Nepalese Ministers and the Danish minister for development, Ulla Tørnæs, will be present together with world famous Mountain climbers including the world record holder with 19 climbs to the summit of Mount Everest.

 www.savehimalayas.org

Illumenarts / Glowing Climate
While the diplomats iron their shirts for the upcoming COP15, Glowing Climate opens the doors to a festival in the city district of Ørestad. Experience a unique light and media exhibition shown on water, land, house fronts and inside buildings in the cityscape of Ørestad. With humor, poetry and provocation the artists deliver a comment to the ongoing and urgent climate debate. The exhibition contains artwork by aspiring as well as established Nordic artists.

The exhibited artists include: Hilden & Diaz, Karoline H. Larsen, Johnsen & Nielsen, Jari Haanperä, Bojen & Ørum, Thorbjørn Lausten, Thomas Lindvig, Steven Scott and Jens Galschiøt.Glowing.

The festival is also packed with parties, debates, tours and a climate run.

Time December 13 – 18. Every day 5pm – 10pm
Location Ørestad
www Illumenarts.dk
www glowingclimate.dk
Free entry
The Climate Run – 100 Danish Kroner which is donated to DanChurchAid – “Folkekirkens Nødhjælp”

On the edge of the climate
DanChurchAid presents the exhibition ”People on the edge of the climate” on Frue Plads in Copenhagen. Photographer Mikkel Østergård and journalist Malene Haakansson have captured situations from the daily life of two families in Uganda and Ethiopia for whom the climate changes are already very tangible.

Time November 17 – December 19
Location Frue Plads
www.gronkirke.dk
Free entry

The World First – Humans First/ Global Day of Action
On Saturday December 12.
You are invited to join a global demonstration.
GCCA, a broad coalition of climate and environmental, peace, solidarity and developmental organizations will bring together all those who are in favour of a more ambitious, socially minded and globally fair climate agreement.

The demonstration will begin at the Danish parliament on Christiansborg’s slotsplads and proceed out to Bella Center, where the climate summit takes place. On the same day, manifestations such as this will take place in close to 100 countries around the world under the title of Global Day of Action.

Time December 12 at 1pm
Location Christiansborg Slotsplads
1240 København K
www 12dec09.dk

Climate Bottom Meeting – Windows of Hope
Workshops, rituals and a funeral a day. The Climate Bottom Meeting views itself as the public alternative to the Climate summit. The Climate Bottom Meeting includes people and contributions from all parts of the world. There will be a considerable line-up including lectures, workshops and cultural activities such as music, films, dance, rituals and exhibitions which together present a broad and collective view of the climate debate and the issue of sustainability.

At the Climate Bottom Meeting, each day has its own theme with workshops, presentations and a funeral – an aspect of the industrial way of life, which we must put behind us if we are to stabilize the climate for the long term and re-establish a sustainable presence on Earth.

Time December 5 – 18
LocationFredens Eng og Fabrikken, Christiania
Bådsmandsstræde 43, 1407 København K
Location Pladsen ved Vartorv, København K

The full program for the Climate Base Meeting can be seen on
www climatebottom.dk

Co2 Cubes – Visualize a Tonne of Change
How much space does a ton of CO2 take up? About as much as a three storey building. And that is exactly how much each person in an industrialized country on average lets out into the atmosphere per month. You will learn this and much more in a multimedia exhibition at Sankt Jørgens lake and the Tycho Brahe Planetarium. Via the exhibition you can both physically and virtually participate in the global debate about how we can reduce the CO2 emissions.

Time December 7 – 18.

NGO Film Festival ”CO2 CUBE” will be showing in the Planetarium.

Time December 12 at 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Location St. Jørgens Lake, Tycho Brahe Planetarium
Gl. Kongevej 10, 1610 København V
www.millenniumart.org
www.tycho.dk
Free entry

Bright Green Future
The Confederation of Danish Industry invites all the people of Copenhagen inside the large Forum building to a light green experience which will educate you in an entertaining way. Test-drive the WMAX robot on the Segway test circuit. Take a 3D trip with the ground water. Go on the hunt for 12 windmills and win cool prizes. See the solutions to the climate challenges proposed by roughly 160 leading companies present in the building.

See the revolutionizing solutions, listen to the experts and scientists suggestions for a bright green future and participate in the many family related activities.

Time December 12 -13 from 10am – 6pm
Location Forum Copenhagen
Julius Thomsens Plads 1
1925 Frederiksberg C
www brightgreen.dk
Entry fee

International sermon
Sunday December 13 an international and ecumenical sermon will be held in Copenhagen’s cathedral. The Anglican archbishop Rowan Williams will preach for among others Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The sermon is held in English and will end at 3pm where the church bells will toll 350 times for awareness, hope and action – together with the rest of the churches in Denmark and the whole world.

Photo: Ty Stange

Time December 13 at 2pm
Location Frue Plads
Københavs Domkirke, Vor Frue Kirke
Nørregade 8, 1165 København K
www gronkirke.dk
Free entry

Arctic Tent
There is no other place in the world where climate change is more apparent than in the Arctic region. During the month of December scientists, representatives of the region’s indigenous people, political leaders, artists and adventurers will pop in for a visit at the WWF’s tent on Nytorv and give their view and story about one of the world’s most endangered regions.

See a photo exhibition and a giant ice sculpture, experience films and lectures about the Arctic, the world’s wildest place.

Time December 5 – 18.  Open daily 11am – 8pm
(December 5: 2pm – 8pm, December 10: Closed, December 13: 2pm – 8pm)
Location Nytorv, København K
www panda.org/arctic
Free entry

Climate forum 09
All of Copenhagen is invited inside the sports arena “DGI-byen” for an inspirational conference with a program that offers culture, debate, exhibitions, lectures creative workshops, films and music, created by and for people from all the continents.

28 Danish environmental organizations have organized the conference with contributions from authors, scientists and internationally renowned cultural figures. You can also participate in the daily climate briefings, where you, in a down to earth way, can gain insight into how the negotiations are developing in the Bella Center.

Time December 7 – 18 at 10am – 12midnight
Location DGI-byen
Tietgensgade 65, 1704 København V
www klimaforum09.org
Free entry

Trash-formed
With a common interest in illustrating how art and design can contribute in reducing the strain on the environment, designer and cultural entrepreneur Klaus Samsøe, designer Victoria Ladefoged and communications consultant Caroline Vogelius Wiener have come together in the art and design group “re:Something” and have given form to a number of objects made out of recyclable material.

The exhibition Trash:Formed tells the story of the development process of trash into a new product.

Time September 17 – January 3 2010
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 5pm, Monday closed
Location The Danish Museum of Art & Design – Kunstindustrimuseet
Bredgade 68, 1260 København K
www kunstindustrimuseet.dk
Entry fee (Wednesday free of charge)

How many cows pollute an e-mail Mom?
We are constantly bombarded with global warming from all sides, and now the turn has come to communication. CO2 is created each time you send an e-mail, check your profile on Facebook and make a call on your cell phone. Should we go offline to save the earth? Luckily not. The Danish Postal Museums special exhibition tells you why.

Warning: The exhibition can cause bad consciousness and moral dilemmas. In return you will receive a number of good advices which can reduce your own CO2 communication usage immediately without having to go offline.

Time April 3 – January 3 2010. Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm, Wednesday 10am – 8pm, Sunday 12noon – 4pm,
Monday closed
Location The Danish Postal Museum – Post & Tele Museum
Købmagergade 37, 1150 København K
www ptt-museum.dk
Free entry

Experience the sustainable city environment of the future – Nordhavn
Dive into the visions, challenges and dilemmas that are connected with planning and developing the whole new city environment Nordhavn. You can delve into the First prize project’s master plan and hear what thoughts the architects behind have given the project.

See how your life in the sustainable Nordhavn might look like in the future. During your visit you will be able to make your own choices and consider what you think makes a city sustainable and vibrant to live in.

The exhibition is presented by the Danish Architecture Center, City and Harbour, 2+1 and the municipality of Copenhagen.

Time December 5 – 16. Every day 11am – 4pm, Wednesday 11am – 8pm
Location Kalkbrænderihavnen
Sundkrogskaj 17, 2100 København Ø
ved restaurant Ocean Club
www nordhavnen.dk
Free entry

On a bike in Copenhagen
The Museum of Copenhagen hosts an imaginative exhibition about bicycles seen from all kinds of angles. Follow the bicycle’s history in Copenhagen from kick-bike and penny farthing to the present day custom built bikes, carrier cycles and city bikes. From spectacular entertainment and toy to irreplaceable everyday tool.

The exhibition also offers beautiful old fashioned bicycle models, bicycles in the art, music, literature – and in the busy every day life of people in Copenhagen.

Time November 21 – June 27. All days between 10am – 4pm, Wednesday 10am – 9pm

Copenhagen under water
The water will flow in the streets when The Museum of Copenhagen puts its beautiful ancient medieval town under water as a comment to the global warming.

Time December 11 – 13
Location The Museum of Copenhagen – Københavns Bymuseum
Vesterbrogade 59, 1620 København V
www bymuseum.dk
Entry fee. Schools and High Schools have free entry fee

Climate – Denmark from ice age to the future
Denmark has not always been grey and wet. The exhibition ”Denmark from ice age to future” contributes to the climate debate with exciting knowledge about how Danish weather and climate has changed over the ages and why. The exhibition also takes a sneak peak into the future.

Time October 31 – March 7. Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm, Monday closed

Indians of the Rainforest
The exhibition ”Indians of the Rainforest” follows Venezuela’s Indians in the forest, on the rivers and in their community houses. Come to the exhibition and learn about the natives’ close bond to nature and go exploring amongst necklaces of animal teeth, blowpipes with poison darts, hammocks and much more.

Time October 3 – February 28. Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm, Monday closed

Indigenous peoples’ day – about indigenous people and the climate
Lectures, panel discussions, films, debates and a reception about indigenous peoples’ present and future, and how their way of life has come under the influence of the global climate changes.
Please note: Most of the program will be in English.

Time December 12 at 10am – 5pm

Indigenous peoples’ film festival

Short film about the climate consequences for the indigenous people in different parts of the world – presented by themselves.
Please note: Only in English

Time December 9 – 13. Every day from 4pm – 6pm
Location National Museum – Nationalmuseet.
Frederiksholms Kanal 12, 1220 København K
www natmus.dk
Free entry

Understanding Climate Change from Space
Since 1975 scientists and engineers have been working on creating a European space program. The result of their efforts has among other things helped create the satellites which today play such a vital role in our understanding of the changes to our Earth.

Under the climate summit you can experience at Kongens Nytorv a model of an ESA CryoSat-2 satellite in actual size. The satellite will be sent into orbit in 2010 on a mission to monitor the polar ice. The satellite has an impressive degree of accuracy and can therefore help to determine some of the climate changes that will affect future generations

Time December 4 -18
www esa.int
Free entry

Cool Globes
Cool Globes is an outdoor art exhibition, which spreads out across the whole city with 28 decorated globes. Each globe is decorated by a Danish or international artist and all of the globes carry messages, that point to possible ways of bringing down the CO2 emission levels.

”It’s not about everyone doing everything. It’s about everyone doing something.”

Time November 13 – December 31
Location Main exhibition at Kongens Nytorv and various metrostations
www coolglobes.dk
Free entry

Seal the Deal! Klimalabyrint
See the renowned Hard Rain photo exhibition which has been created by the help of Bob Dylan. Find you way through the climate labyrinth and make your voice heard by signing the UN’s global petition ”Seal the Deal!”

The walls of the climate labyrinth are made by hundreds of banners which have been stamped and signed by thousands of worried citizens all over the world.

Time December 5 – 18
Location The square outside of Magasin du Nord
www sealthedeal2009.org
www hardrainproject.com
www unep.org
Free entry

Climate change(s) people’s stories
The French Embassy, The European Environment Agency and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts focus on climate changes in the photo exhibition ”Climate change(s) people stories”. The exhibition can be seen both on the facades of the three institution’s buildings as well as inside The European Environment Agency. The exhibition is created by The Collectif Argos photographers.

On December 8 the climber Antoine Le Menestrel and his team of Lézards Bleus will perform the climbing stunt “Service on all levels”, where they focus on the individual in relation to the monumental.

Time December 7 – 18. Weekdays 9am – 5pm, closed during the weekend
Location The European Environment Agency: Kgs. Nytorv 6, 1050 Kbh K
www eea.europa.eu/cop15

On December 8 the climber Antoine Le Menestrel and his team of Lézards Bleus will perform the climbing stunt “Service on all levels”, where they focus on the individual in relation to the monumental.

Time See opening hours on the embassy homepage
Location The French Embassy: Kgs. Nytorv 4, 1050 Kbh K
www ambafrance-dk.org
www kunstakademiet.dk
Free entry

Native land, Stop eject
The gallery ”Kunsthallen Charlottenborg” will display a magnificent exhibition created by Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Large video installations explain the consequences of globalization and climate change and investigate the meaning of migration in a time where great migrations of people will take place.

The exhibition presents the works of Raymond Depardon, Paul Virilio, Diller Scofidio and Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan.

Time December 5 – February 21
Tuesday – Sunday 12 – 5 pm, Monday closed
Public tours: Saturday and Sunday at 2pm
Location Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nyhavn 2, 1051 København K
www kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk
Entry fee

KLIMA – The world is changing
In the Machine Hall and the Kettle House – two historic buildings in the Botanical gardens – the Natural History Museum presents a new big special exhibition in the newly reopened exhibition halls.

A hungry polar bear, whitened and dead corals, bird species that leave – and arrive to – Denmark, and four fantastically glowing globes are just a few of the many beautiful and amazing pieces, illustrating the change occurring to our world.

The exhibition is produced by the American Museum of Natural History in New York in co-operation with a long line of other world renowned museums, including the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

Time October 9 – February 28. Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 4pm, Monday closed
Location Botanical garden and Museum- Botanisk Have & Museum
Natural History Museum of Denmark – Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
Øster Farimagsgade 2 B
1353 København K
www botanik.snm.ku.dk
Entry fee

RETHINK The Implicit
Exotic birds crow in the brush, while insects buzz energetically in the lazy atmosphere. The Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson highlights elements in nature, which are usually taken as a given, under the theme “RETHINK The Implicit” at the Centre of Contemporary Art. Together with five other artists he focuses on the resources, we have thus far overlooked – until the climate changes created a focus on the basic phenomenons of nature, which we risk loosing, such as water, air, land and light.

Time October 31 – December 27
Monday – Sunday 10am – 17pm Thursday 10am – 9pm
Location Centre of Contemporary Art – Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Oslo Plads, 2100 København Ø
www denfrie.dk
Entry fee

RETHINK Kakotopia
A mouse with a screaming yellow security helmet races into hiding from a shower of acid rain. The artist and CEO Bill Burns travels around the world with miniature versions of human safety equipment – for animals. Under the theme of RETHINK Kakotopia, which is exhibited in Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, the Canadian and twelve other artists contemplate the new values and visions that might occur in a possible chaotic future due to the climate changes.

Time October 31 – January 1
Tuesday – Sunday 12noon – 5pm, Thursday 12noon – 9pm, Monday closed
Location Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center – Kunsthallen Nikolaj
Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 København K
www kunsthallennikolaj.dk
Entry fee (Wednesday free entry)

Nature Strikes Back
Experience a highly topical narrative about society’s changing views on nature from antiquity until today. The exhibition brings into perspective the relationship with nature by telling the stories of how Western culture through the ages has understood nature in different ways. See art work by some of the greatest artist through history.

Time October 9 – March 7. Tuesday – Sunday 10am to 5pm, Wednesday 10am – 8pm, Monday closed

RETHINK Relations
Experience four works by Olafur Eliasson and the Cuban-American artistic couple Allora & Calzadilla among others, and challenge your own thoughts on Climate change.

Time October 31. – April 5. Tuesday – Sunday 10am to 5pm, Wednesday 10am – 8pm, Monday closed
Location National Gallery of Denmark – Statens Museum for Kunst
Sølvgade 48-50, 1307 København K
www smk.dk
Entry: Free of charge

The North Atlantic wharf is literally dressed to focus on Greenland, the Arctic and the global climate, when an art exhibition transforms the building into a giant iceberg. Inside the beautiful old warehouse there will be three separate exhibitions each with their own focus on the climate changes in the northern regions.

Arctic Venue
Acrtic climate changes is a window into the future’s climate. Danish and international premiere scientists  supply the newest findings on climate change in the Arctic – and their significance for the world.

Time December 12 – 18, every dag from 10am -6pm

In the Eye of Climate Change
Experience a Greenland you have never seen before! Exhibition which focuses on the climate changes difficult challenge to Greenland.

Time December 12 – 20, every day from 10am – 6pm

The ice is burning
Explore a landscape full of polar bears, seals and birds, all of whom are threatened by the high temperatures in the Arctic.

Time December 2 – 20, every day from 10am – 6pm
Location The North Atlantic wharf – Nordatlantens Brygge
Strandgade 91, 1401 København K
www bryggen.dk
www climategreenland.gl
Entry fee