Press Release: Eco-innovation can boost environment and economic growth

More than a hundred prominent Danish and European researchers, politicians, officials and corporate leaders met in Copenhagen on19-20 April 2005 to discuss challenges and potentials regarding eco-innovation. A new report, resulting from a project financed by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and entitled 'Green technology foresight about environmentally friendly products and materials: Challenges from nanotechnology, biotechnology and ICT', shows that high technology has environmental potentials in Denmark but that barriers have to be broken down and risks have to be handled.

Denmark: Danish Ministry for the Environment: Press Release, 18.4.05 http://www.mim.dk/Nyheder/Pressemeddelelser/180405_Eco-innovation.htm

Denmark: Danish Ministry for the Environment: Conference Copenhagen 19-20 April 2005: Eco-innovation: Potentials and challenges of tomorrow's technologies http://www.frontlinien.dk/eco/index.htm

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