News about Sustainability

Student voices shaping global health: Meet our Student Advisory Board

Created to embed student perspectives into the School of Global Health’s strategic development and activities, the Student Advisory Board empowers students from the University of Copenhagen.

Researchers revive yoghurt made from... ants

An old traditional recipe for yoghurt made from ants has been recreated by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. In a new study, they show how ants and the bacteria that live on them can transform milk into…

Researchers revive yoghurt made from... ants

An old traditional recipe for yoghurt made from ants has been recreated by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. In a new study, they show how ants and the bacteria that live on them can transform milk into…

Call for abstracts: Rethinking Global Aid - The Reset

Global aid is at a crossroads. Rising nationalism, colonial legacies, declining support for development assistance, and a shifting multilateral order are reshaping the foundations of international cooperation.

New report on Danish soy imports and EU deforestation regulation

Researchers from the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) highlights key challenges in ensuring Denmark’s soy sourcing practices do not contribute to global deforestation and conversion of other natural…

Winner of the SCIENCE PhD Award

Kirstine Lund Christiansen has been awarded the SCIENCE PhD Award 2025 for her outstanding thesis, “Legitimising Voluntary and Market-based Climate Action: Corporate Narratives, Nature-based Offsetting and the Greening…

CLIMA to Host the 13th European Environmental Law Forum Conference (EELF) in Copenhagen 2026

CLIMA will host the 13th European Environmental Law Forum (EELF) Conference from 26 to 28 August 2026.

International Consortium to transform CO₂ into food

Scientists from the Department of Food and Resource Economics join international effort to turn CO₂ into food for the second phase of The Acetate Consortium initiative, funded by Gates Foundation and the Novo Nordisk…

Sustainable production and commercialization of valuable pigments from cyanobacteria

Photosynthetic microbes convert CO2 into useful bioproducts. How can we optimize their productivity?

Emanuela Rassu

Emanuela Rassu is a PhD candidate in Law and Management of Sustainability at the University of Siena, where her research focuses on the multilevel governance of a “just” energy transition.

Researchers call for tools to link nature and public health

New study urges governments to rethink how the measure and address the health of both people and the planet.

Full Recording: Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research webinar

On June 24 2025, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted a webinar on Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research.

CLIMA researcher Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer awarded Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship

Dr. Ana Stella Ebbersmeyer has received a Carlsberg Foundation Fellowship for her Arctic cruise tourism law-science project, EMBARC.

Tshifhiwa Bernard Magoro

Bernard is a LLM student from the North Sea Energy Law Program under the supervision of Beatriz Martinez Romera.

Emilie Victoria Nørgaard Elkjær

Emilie specializes in climate and energy law, holding an LL.M. from the University of Groningen and currently studying at the University of Copenhagen.

Emilie Victoria Nørgaard Elkjær

Emilie holds an LL.M. in Energy and Climate Law and is now pursuing a second master’s in climate and energy law at the University of Copenhagen.

Tshifhiwa Bernard Magoro

Bernard is a LLM student from the North Sea Energy Law Program under the supervision of Beatriz Martinez Romera.

Call for abstracts: Extreme heat and health in the context of climate change

The goal of this symposium is to highlight a global health emergency: The impact of extreme heat on public health due to climate change.

Studieforløb i Kenya: Brug din faglighed i globalt udviklingssamarbejde

Deltag i et internationalt lærings- og innovationsforløb om Danmarks udviklingssamarbejde, FN’s Verdensmål og sundhedsudfordringer i Kibera, Kenya.

Ox-eye daisy, bellis and yarrow: Flower strips with at least two sown species provide 70 percent more natural enemies of pests

Planting flower strips in a field with at least two species can increase the number of natural enemies of pests by 70 percent. The more flower species, the better the effect, according to a new meta-analysis from the…

Scientific breakthrough: We can now halve the price of costly cancer drug

The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it’s difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn’t been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University…

Benedetta Virginia Freddi

Benedetta Virginia Freddi, a law Master’s student at the University of Trento, researches how EU case law influences national rules on environmental liability, focusing on the precautionary principle.

Call for Abstracts: XVII Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability

The XVII Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy & Sustainability on 23 October 2025 invites students and early-career researchers to present their work and receive feedback.

Thinking Collectively through Ecological Crisis

In April 2025, researchers from the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies contributed to the seminar ‘Challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability around the world’ at the University of Copenhagen.