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Stockholm and Hamburg win first European Green Capital awards

February 23, 2009

Stockholm and Hamburg were today named as the first winners of the new European Green Capital award. The Swedish capital will be the European Green Capital in 2010 followed by Hamburg in 2011.

European Commission press release: https://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/305&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

T&E was represented on the jury for the awards by policy officer Nina Renshaw.

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