News about Climate

The counting of nine billion trees could help manage climate credits and nature restoration

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and NASA have developed a method that has now mapped several billion trees and their carbon uptake in Africa’s Sahel. In the future, the method could be used to monitor…

Bo Jellesmark Thorsen appointed as new member of the Danish Council on Climate Change

The Danish Council on Climate Change have appointed three new members that will contribute with their expertise in energy, bio-resources, and economics. Among the three new members is Professor Bo Jellesmark Thorsen,…

Critical, but willing to drink: Consumers’ perspectives on the use of advanced breeding methods in dairy production

Danish consumers are concerned about advanced breeding methods in dairy production. However, a new research study has found that they are willing to drink the milk as long as the methods have not been used directly on…

Critical, but willing to drink: Consumers’ perspectives on the use of advanced breeding methods in dairy production

Danish consumers are concerned about advanced breeding methods in dairy production. However, a new research study has found that they are willing to drink the milk as long as the methods have not been used directly on…

Putting a price tag on the amenity value of private forests

When it comes to venturing into and enjoying nature, forests are the people’s top choice, at least in Denmark. This is also reflected in the sales prices of properties with private forest. But beyond earnings potential,…

Interdisciplinary Collaborations

ROCS Meeting Successfully Converges Ongoing Research and Solidifies Interdisciplinary Collaborations In December, the ROCS team met with close collaborators to discuss preliminary findings and continue to weave the…

Monthly seminars in FutureArcticLives

FutureArcticLIves partners conduct monthly webinars around the 14th of each month, discussing preliminary results and other relevant subjects.

New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise

The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and University of Copenhagen that meltwater in tunnels beneath…

New knowledge about ice sheet movement can shed light on when sea levels will rise

The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and University of Copenhagen that meltwater in tunnels beneath…

Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet”

Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…

Elite Research winner: “You shouldn’t count yourself out just because you don’t think you are quite there yet”

Today, newly appointed Professor Eline Lorenzen receives the Ministry of Higher Education and Science’s Elite Research Prize for her research in biodiversity and environmental changes and her capacity for…

María Carro Pitarch

María Carro Pitarch is a PhD Candidate at the International Law Department at the University of Valencia (Spain) and Lecturer in EU Law.

Nature’s future pharmacy in peril

For thousands of years, people have relied on the healing properties of plants – in some places they are still the only freely available remedies to this day. Half of the drugs approved worldwide in the last four decade…

Barriers to interdisciplinarity: an early career researchers’ perspective on urban climate governance

About a year ago, our Cities in Global Climate Governance early career researchers’ (ECR) group took up a project to begin reviewing all of the contemporary global urban climate governance literature.

New publication: Inter-Risk Framing Contests

A group of DISTRACT researchers have recently published a new article in the field leading journal SOCIOLOGY, entitled Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during…

A time machine for anticipating bird diversity

Genetic bird data shows patterns of trait diversity over the distant past and under a previous period of dramatic global climate warming. A new study identifies trait combinations and trait-sets associated with…

Ina Banja Albrektsen

Electricity interconnection target in the European Union

Kirstine Frida Rysbjerg

Market regulation of agricultural land in Denmark

New global health research projects about climate change and health in 2023

Danida Fellowship Center has granted the Global Health Section at the University of Copenhagen 30 million DKK for three new climate change and health related research projects in Tanzania, Kenya, and Bangladesh.

Nuggets mined from thousands of tweets can persuade us to eat more climate-friendly

Experience and opinion trump fact in Twitter conversations about sustainable food. In a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers demonstrate that natural language algorithms make it possible to identify people's…

Nuggets mined from thousands of tweets can persuade us to eat more climate-friendly

Experience and opinion trump fact in Twitter conversations about sustainable food. In a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers demonstrate that natural language algorithms make it possible to identify people's…

Invitation to the inauguration of professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen

Invitation to the inauguration of professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen March 3 at 1 pm in Copenhagen Plant Science Center Auditorium A2.11.01 - CPSC1, entrance via Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C

DKK 20 million from the A.P. Moller Foundation to the green transition

In the future Geocenter Denmark with the participation of IGN will be able to collect seismic data and knowledge about the underground for use in the green transition and for the training of students.

Dawoon Jung

Visiting Stay: March 2023 Dr Dawoon Jung is a Research Fellow in the Ocean Law and Policy team at the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore and an associate editor of the Asian Journal of…