Welcome to the free Copenhagen Images of HIER.nu, hosted by the Dutch Klimaatbureau. In this database you'll find an extensive collection of high resolution pictures of the city of Copenhagen. Under specific conditions these images can be used by anyone wanting to report on the all-important climate summit that will be held in Copenhagen from December 7th till 18th 2009.

During this UN conference agreement must be reached on the new international climate treaty, that is to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012. The new treaty contains concrete emissions goals for the year 2020.

40 percent
In making this new climate treaty and the world wide attempts to rein in climate change a success it's essential that all industrialised countries commit themselves in Copenhagen to an emission reduction of 40 percent between 1990 en 2020. In order to remind all parties to this necessity all pictures in the Copenhagen Images have been labelled with the 40 logo.

Copyright – conditions of use
All images can be published freely as long as this 40 logo remains visible. In case of technical impossibilities to publish pictures with the logo in your medium a request can be sent to Rolf Schuttenhelm of the Klimaatbureau. He can provide in the original pictures under additional conditions, such as placing an indexable link from your domain to the Copenhagen Images on www.hier.nu or expressing the 40 percent target in the main text or caption of your article.

Subjects
Below you’ll find an overview of pictures of the city of Copenhagen, the typical street view and its main tourist attractions. Apart from that Copenhagen Images contains activists expressions in the renowned commune of Christiania, symbolic climate pictures and images of the Bella Center, the Copenhagen congress centre, where the actual climate summit will be held.

Updates
In the upcoming months Copenhagen Images will be supplemented with regular updates. Of course we also welcome your high resolution contributions!

STREET VIEW OF COPENHAGEN - part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6
Broad streets, large parks en ponds, unanimous traffic law-obedience, cyclists, runners, charming blondes, young families. Notable about Copenhagen’s street view is its healthy demographics, with trendy and sporty people, almost all of whom ride their bike to work. Apart from regular bikes (lady models all carry a wicker basket up front) the high concentration of cargo bikes (- trikes mostly) is striking. Many of these are handmade in Christiania. Among young and old a broad support of this free state exists, judging by the many visible hooded sweaters with the text ‘Bevar Christiania’, preserve Christiania.




NYHAVN
The ‘new’ harbour, but actually the old one. Crowded terraces under sweet, painted Scandinavian warehouses. One of the most typical images of Copenhagen. People at the terraces speak French, English, German and Dutch. When you hear a Scandinavian tongue, it would be Swedish, day trippers from nearby Malmö. In short, Nyhavn is for the tourists.




CHRISTIANIA
The city within the city. Since the beginning of the seventies a hippy commune, hardly changed by the ravages of time (or be it the introduction of paintbrush graffiti). Christiania includes the eastern fortifications of Copenhagen. The front part, with large squatted barracks, is touristy, with all sorts of taverns and bars – and, like elsewhere in Copenhagen, impressive wall paintings and graffiti pieces. This part can sometimes look radically different at night, when the riot police decides to clear one of the buildings – each time meeting tough resistance from the inhabitants. The north-eastern part of Christiania is considerably larger and has a distinctly different atmosphere. Lots of green on an alternation of the actual star shaped earthen walls and wide moats of the city's old defenses. To this day Norwegian, Swedish and Danish filibusters jointly build new blockhouses to live in. It creates remarkable pieces of contemporary architecture, extensively decorated with wall paintings and sometimes equipped with solar panels to provide for green electricity and the desired off-grid lifestyle. Christiania bikes, the characteristic cargo bikes that show up as far as Amsterdam, are indeed being made in this part of Copenhagen.




THE LITTLE MERMAID
Den lille havfrue. Tribute to Hans Christian Andersen. Above all the place where busloads of Japanese and other non-European tourists strike down for a couple of minutes in an attempt to experience Copenhagen ‘while doing Europe’. It produces a thousand senseless snapshots a day – which can also be found in Copenhagen Images. Because no matter personal preferences, the little mermaid is undeniably the most distinctive image of Copenhagen. Illustrative photos incorporate the harbour opposite the water, with its horizon of smoke billowing industry and offshore wind parks, Denmark’s speciality. A bit further, rather strangely unnoticed, stands ‘the new mermaid’. Considerably bigger and considerably more lascivious. Hence also worth a picture.




COPENHAGEN CONGRESS CENTER - BELLA CENTER
The congress centre on the isle of Amager, directly south of Copenhagen, where the actual climate conference will be held. Rather unattractive sixties build with a nineties façade to suggest some modernity. Further mostly a building site. Bella Hotel, Scandinavia’s largest hotel, is arising on the spot. Its doors will open in 2011 – so too late for the climate summit. By contrast, Vestas did deliver the lone wind turbine in time (beginning of 2009) to allow for the market leader itself and the Danish government to show off during the conference. Inside the building visitors can read on a special display the exact amount of clean energy that’s been produced so far.




COPENHAGEN FROM THE SKY
The harbour, the warehouses, the governmental centre, the characteristic skyline with the many decorated church towers and spires, offshore wind energy and, in the distance, the Øresund and the bridge to Malmö, Sweden.

Please also check our special Copenhagen Climate Conference Action Page