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The '''UN City''' (Danish: '''FN Byen''') is located in [[Copenhagen]], and consists of two campuses that combined house 11 [[United Nations]] agencies. The plans for a UN City in Copenhagen were born in 2002, and the location at Marmormolen was selected in 2005. Campus 1 on Marmormolen currently accommodates staff members from all 11 agencies. Campus 2, located by the container port, constitutes UNICEF's new state of the art high bay warehouse and is currently considered{{By whom|date=October 2021}} to be the world's largest non-food humanitarian warehouse. UN City currently accommodates 2000 employees<ref>{{Cite web |last=wpmaster |title=UN City in Copenhagen - 11 UN agencies, 2 campuses, 2000 employees » |url=https://un.dk/ |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=un.dk |language=en-US}}</ref> from 104 different countries, of which 1,700 employees are located in campus 1, making it the sixth largest UN campus measured by the number of staff.<ref name='undk'>{{cite web | url = http://un.dk/da/node/17 | title = Forenede Nationer i Danmark | accessdate = 2014-03-12 | author = United Nations | authorlink = United Nations | language = Danish}}</ref><ref name='information'>{{cite web | url = http://www.information.dk/467009 | title = Information | accessdate = 2014-03-12 | author = Information | authorlink = Information | language = Danish}}</ref> The building was designed by Danish architecture firm [[3XN]],<ref name='3xn'>{{cite web | url = http://www.3xn.dk/arkitektur/kronologisk/65-fn-byen | title = FN Byen | accessdate = 2013-11-05 | author = 3xn | authorlink = 3xn | language = Danish}}</ref> totals 45,000 m² office space and 7,000 m² basement and was inaugurated on the 4th of July 2013 by Secretary-General [[Ban Ki-moon]] and Her Majesty [[Margrethe II of Denmark]].<ref name='byoghavn' /> The building is built with a large focus on sustainability and [[Environmentally friendly|environmental friendliness]], and the calculated energy consumption for the building is less than 50 [[Watt|kWh]]/m²/year.<ref name='3xn' /> The building has been awarded with the European Commission's Green Building Award for New Buildings and LEED's Platinum-certificate.<ref name="undk" /> The [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Denmark)|Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]<ref name='byoghavn'>{{cite web | url = http://www.byoghavn.dk/presse/nyheder/2013/s%C3%A5dan+blev+fn+byen+til.aspx | title = Sådan blev FN BYEN til | accessdate = 2014-01-25 | author = By & Havn | authorlink = By & Havn | language = Danish}}</ref> rent UN City for the UN through official development assistance funds.