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The Crown Plaza in Copenhagen -- to the untrained eye, a normal hotel. 

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To the hotel's management, a carbon-neutral building showcasing real sustainable business. 

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It sits on the outskirts of the Danish capital, where the goal is to be the world's first carbon-neutral city by 2025. 

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No surprise, then, that within the city you find a certain tendency towards green thinking built into the business heads of its community.

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Essentially what we've done is we wanted to show that you can deliver a fully serviced international four-star branded hotel without really impacting the environment.

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So, I'm not immediately feeling green.

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No. Absolutely. The whole idea is that you don't see a difference.

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All right, so where's the core of your green credentials?

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Actually, in the basement.

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This is the key to the hotel's efficiency -- pumping natural cold water from underground, and using it for all heating and cooling needs.

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On the air-conditioning part of it the savings is almost 90 percent.

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Small-scale features like solar panels and energy-saving lighting all help maximize efficiency. They even have an electricity-generating bicycle in the gym.

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This is gimmicks-ville, but I quite like it.

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Copenhagen's large community of cyclists all travel carbon-free on a daily basis. Now they can also take their bicycles onto carbon-neutral trains.

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The train runs on electricity. And we had a customer demand. They want CO2-free transportation. 

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So, we're sure that all the energy that we're using, it comes from wind and water. So we're... it's 100 percent CO2-free transportation.

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And that tells us something about the culture on the streets of the city. Time for lunch. 

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Well, I guess the environmental focus is something that's been built into the Copenhagen way of thinking and has been for a while, I guess.

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That way of thinking might just be the key for the man who plans to make the whole city carbon-neutral.

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Of course it's a very ambitious plan, to be carbon-neutral -- the first carbon-neutral capital in the world -- by 2025. 

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It's ambitious, but I think it's realistic, because we have already shown that over the last 10 years we have reduced our CO2 emissions by 20 percent. 

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So, I think it's very realistic.

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We see that green growth, sustainable solutions, integrated in our city can boost the economy.