People often wonder what happens to Nordic Horizons speakers – in the case of Samsø and Søren Hermansen – they just keep going from strength to strength. The tiny Danish island has just been made UN climate leader award winner for 2021 for; ‘completely transforming its energy system from fossil fuels to renewable energy to become the world’s first renewable energy island. Key results that have been achieved include: becoming carbon negative; 100% local ownership of renewable energy investments; and significant socio-economic benefits from the energy transition.’
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Søren Hermansen and the Samsø team will be at COP 26 to receive their award on Nov 10th. Nordic Horizons Director Lesley Riddoch (who has a priceless media pass) will be there and report back.
Meanwhile, here’s a link to the excellent short talk Søren gave to an NH audience in the Scottish Parliament back in 2013.
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And here are notes of that original meeting kindly provided by Dave Watson from Unison – a prolific blogger  www.unisondave.blogspot.co.uk
Here are the the full digital notes from the original Great Green Danes Nordic Horizon event.
