Green research and green solutions

Universities have a special position and a responsibility to play a key role in shaping a more sustainable future. At the University of Copenhagen, a focal point is, therefore, research and education that contribute to solutions addressing sustainability and global challenges.

Over two billion people thirst for drinking water

Jiwoong Lee turns sea water into drinking water. That usually requires large amounts of energy, but a new method can desalt the water by the use of CO2.

Green research centres

KU's nye maskinrum for løsningsorienteret, tværdisciplinær grøn forskning

Centret fremmer tværfaglig forskning og samarbejde mellem forskere, erhvervsliv og beslutningstagere.

Forskning i klima og bæredygtighed inden for samfundsvidenskaben.

The Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) is committed to research that supports a green transition of society

Current climate and sustainability research

Plant-based foods

Researchers want to convert rapeseed proteins from feed to food

Providing enough proteins through sustainable food production is a huge challenge up to 2050, when the global population is expected to be 9.7 billion people.

Significantly reducing agricultural CO2 emissions by way of wheatgrass

Wheatgrass has the potential to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Denmark by up to 10 percent

Green research and green solutions

Fixin’ to be flexitarian: Scrap fish and invasive species can liven up vegetables

Greening the way we eat needn’t mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to “boring” vegetables. University of Copenhagen gastrophysicist Ole G.…

Increased CO2 emissions from world’s tundra surprise researchers

As they warm, Arctic tundra environments will probably release 30% more CO2 than they do today – an increase that is nearly four times more than previously estimated. This is the conclusion of a large international stud…

Iconic savanna mammals face genetic problems due to fences and roads

Wildebeest migrations have become a rarer sight in Africa as humans continue to interrupt their historic migratory routes with roads, fences, cities, livestock and farmland. This has led to genetic decay in those herds…

Economist: Tens of billions of dollars in forest products are being overlooked

Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests – including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in official trade statistics, their economic valu…

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More information about climate and sustainability

We have put together a course mapping, to gather courses and programmes related to the sustainability field - all in one page.