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Asparagus and orchids are more similar than you think

How is a beech leaf constructed? What determines the appearance of an asparagus? A new 'encyclopaedia’ created by researchers at the University of Copenhagen helps us learn more about the building blocks of plants. The…

Johan Nikolaj Lausen

Regime Interactions in Marine Conservation Beyond National Jurisdiction

New study on global biodiversity hotspots

Based on millions of distribution data, researchers reveal unexpected patterns that may redefine our understanding of global hotspots of biodiversity.

Innovative stormwater solution unveiled to tackle record rainfall in Denmark

Denmark faced unprecedented rainfall in 2023, breaking historical records and posing ongoing challenges with stormwater and flooding of streets and basements. Rather than resorting to expanding CO2-intensive concrete…

Large nitrous oxide emissions from flooded fields suggests action

AGRICULTURE Danish agriculture faces challenges in reducing the release of greenhouse gases. New research from the University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Nature Management (IGN) reveals unexpectedly…

A grassroot movement fighting for sustainability grown big

CPR Goes Green started as a grassroot initiative at CPR almost four years ago. Now the initiative has spread to many places at SUND and the “Goes Green”-teams are learning from each other’s initiatives to help labs to…

2023 Publications Highlights

VOLT center started this year and there have been many exciting activities, collaborations, new people joining, cool instruments arriving and promising data being generated. While most of the new data still needs to be…

Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark

Postdoc Inge-Merete Hougaard has recently published the article 'Enacting biochar as a climate solution in Denmark' in the journal Environmental Science and Policy.

Alessandro Galli

Alessandro Galli, an LLM candidate at the University of Milan, researches the role of State aid in supporting environmental protection, renewable energy development, and climate change.

Call for Abstracts – InterAct Conference International Law-Making: Actors in Shipping and Climate Change

The Center for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen welcomes proposals for paper presentations for the conference ‘International law-making: Actors in shipping and…

Call for Abstracts - Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability: Oceans Special Edition

The Center for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) and the Copenhagen Ocean Hub are organizing a special edition of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy and Sustainability with a focus on oceans. The…

10 months of VOLT: a review of 2023

VOLT has started in March 2023 and what a year it has been! The official opening ceremony was in June, with a great turnout, VIP guest speakers and a musical moment, followed by a reception. In addition, while waiting…

Large nitrous oxide emissions from flooded fields suggests action

New research from IGN reveals unexpectedly large nitrous oxide emissions from the flooded fields on Zealand. The results have recently been published in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

Researchers invent "methane cleaner": Could become a permanent fixture in cattle and pig barns

In a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and chlorine to eradicate low-concentration methane from air. The result gets us closer to being able to remove greenhouse gases…

Student creates green investment tool

A student at University of Copenhagen has developed a method for optimizing profit relative to risk while also including sustainability and social responsibility concerns. The tool is relevant to both professional and…

Eirik Finserås

Eiriks research is related to a comparative assessment of national licensing procedures for offshore wind in the North Sea Basin. Currently entitled `A Comparative Legal Analysis of North Sea Offshore Wind Licensing…

Extreme poverty rendering Madagascar vulnerable to underreported extreme heat would not have occurred without climate change

Researchers Nick Baumgart and Emmanuel Raju from COPE and the School of Global Health join their peers in this new study (featured on the Guardian) titled "Extreme poverty rendering Madagascar highly vulnerable to…

Kathrine Hyun Kjærgaard Pedersen

Renewable energy and the green transition

Reflections on the Humanitarian Congress Berlin 2023

Three students studying Disaster Risk Management - Katharina Bucsits, Madeline Ewbank and Christos Tsampoulatidis - attended HC Berlin in-person and share their takeaways on key themes below.

Danish researchers puncture 100-year-old theory of odd little 'water balloons'

Quinoa and many other extremely resilient plants are covered with strange balloon-like 'bladders' that for 127 years were believed to be responsible for protecting them from drought and salt. Research results from the…

Danish researchers puncture 100-year-old theory of odd little 'water balloons'

Quinoa and many other extremely resilient plants are covered with strange balloon-like 'bladders' that for 127 years were believed to be responsible for protecting them from drought and salt. Research results from the…

Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact

Professor Bente Halkier and PhD student Amanda Krog Juvik have together with Toke Haunstrup Christensen, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen and Malene Freudendal-Pedersen published the paper "Exploring routinization and reflexivity i…

New beetle species has bottle-opener shaped genitalia: Now that calls for a Carlsberg!

Six new beetle species have been discovered in South America by researchers at the University of Copenhagen. Among them is one with a distinctively shaped sexual organ that has led the researchers to name it after globa…

New research: Fivefold increase in the melting of Greenland's glaciers over the last 20 years

In the largest survey of its kind ever conducted, using both satellite imagery and old aerial photos from the Danish National Archives, researchers from the University of Copenhagen firmly establish that Greenland’s…