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As climate changes hold the prospects of transforming the peripheral status of the Arctic zone, traditional stakeholders of the High North such as Denmark as well as new players from afar are monitoring the situation closely.
In a risky world the global poor are now expected to embrace uncertainty as a fitness test of their adaptability and resilience.
This seminar examines the rejection of earlier modernist understandings of the catastrophic event as an ‘accident’ originating outside society, in favour of seeing such events as directly linked to how the human and natural worlds work and interact.
20-03-2013 | Climate Change and Development Politics
In global climate negotiations, the G77 discourse portrays developing countries as victims of climate change.
Climate change brings unprecedented challenges for livelihoods in developing countries.
The landscape of biofuels has developed rapidly during the past decade. Not only are many countries involved in the production and/or consumption of biofuels, biofuels have also become global rather than local commodities.
The Green Economy has been identified as one of the two overarching themes of the upcoming UN Summit in Rio de Janeiro, ‘Rio+20’, in June this year.
12-04-2012 | Addressing Climate Change and Conflict in Development Cooperation – Experiences from Natural Resource Management
Climate change is rarely the sole cause of conflict, but it can intensify and multiply existing conflicts over natural resources.
19-11-2010 | A New Global Governance? Climate Change Negotiations and International Development Cooperation
Climate change negotiations are a volatile policy field. They address a potentially devastating issue, they are based on contradicting interests and principles, and their organisation is not as ingrained as other older policy fields.
Population growth and climate change are often regarded as factors that will lead to increased water conflicts in developing countries in the future.
11-08-2010 | Carbon Footprints, Trade and Development
Carbon footprint labels and border measures are at the centre of current debates cutting across climate change, trade and development policies.
FN’s rolle som det naturlige centrum for globalt samarbejde er til debat. G8 er blevet til G20 – et handlekraftigt og overskueligt forum, der samler 85 procent af verdens økonomi omkring ét mødebord.
Seminaret er det andet af tre i seminarrække EU bag kulisserne – Europa-Parlamentets vej til magten.
Danske og udenlandske EU-aktører vil over de tre arrangementer fortælle om deres personlige opfattelser af og bidrag til begivenheder, der har formet magten i Europa-Parlamentet.
Danske og udenlandske EU-aktører vil over de tre arrangementer fortælle om deres personlige opfattelser af og bidrag til begivenheder, der har formet magten i Europa-Parlamentet.
30-09-2009 | Natural Resources and the Return of Geopolitics?
Increased demand for natural resources over the past twenty years caused by population growth, depletion of known reserves, massive economic growth in India and China, Western consumerism and, not least, climate change has once again put geopolitical issues at the top of the list of security concerns
“Low Carbon Development” has become a new buzz-word in both climate change and development debates, and increasing evidence suggests that it can also help address poverty alleviation in developing countries.
21-04-2009 | Poverty, Forests and Climate Change – Practical Strategies for Ensuring Pro-Poor Approaches to REDD
One of the controversial issues at the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen is the establishment of a possible global mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).
The world’s low income countries are facing an enormous task in the years to come. Not only are they continuing their uphill battle for economic growth and poverty reduction; they also have to wrestle the global climate changes that are threatening exactly these countries the most.
10-12-2008 | Migration and Climate Change
Climate change will force people to flee – current estimates of the number of displaced range from 25 million to one billion by the year 2050. DIIS seminar discusses the topic of climate change and displacement.
26-06-2008 | Udenrigspolitiske udfordringer i det 21. århundrede
Udenrigsminister Per Stig Møller debatterer det 21. århundredes udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitiske udfordringer med et panel af fire yngre forskere, samt forskere og studerende blandt publikum
The second of six seminars in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series. With Christina Nilsson, Lola Garcia Alix, Thomas Birk and Sara Trærup
27-05-2008 | Good International Environmental Citizenship
Warming up to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is to be held in Copenhagen, Lorraine Elliot will attempt to shed light on the question of when a country can claim it is a good environmental citizen, and whether is it possible to use the label to assume international leadership?
Aaron Cosbey, Tao Wang and John Kornerup Bang will present a Trade Monday perspective on climate change
The first of six seminars in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series. With Chasca Twyman
18-12-2007 | EU-Afrika-topmødet: Hvor peger resultaterne hen?
Relationerne mellem EU og Afrika bliver stadig mere og mere sammensatte, men bygger de også i højere grad på ligeværdighed? Det, og andre spørgsmål adresseres af tidligere EU-kommissær for udvikling, Poul Nielson og institutleder Gorm Rye Nielsen fra RUC
I anledning af valget inviterer DIIS til debatmøde om fremtidens udviklingsbistand. Repræsentanter fra alle partier er inviteret til et debatarrangement, der vil diskutere Danmarks målsætning om fattigdomsbekæmpelse set i forhold til bistand gennem multilaterale organisationer, integration af andre politikområder i bistanden såsom klima, handel og indvandring, skrøbelige stater og Paris-erklæringen.
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