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DIIS researches how climate and natural resources are handled locally and internationally, and the implications for human security, countries’ development and international politics.
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Food and agriculture
Climate change and environment
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Research and activites

  • Locally-led Adaptation report and pb cover
    Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly Filbert
    Webinar

    Locally-led climate change adaptation: From principles to practice

    Online via Zoom
    Climate change adaptation in the Global South is urgent. Locally-led approaches are gaining momentum. But what does that mean in practice and does it work? This webinar launches a new DIIS report on lessons from locally-led adaptation in East Africa
  • European and African leaders discussing climate change problems - AI generated
    Photo/illustration by Marie Barse via Open AI ChatGPT Dall E
    Livestreaming

    Climate security: rethinking African-European partnerships amid crises

    DIIS Auditorium
    Join us for an open discussion on how to rethink climate, peace and security efforts with African partners
  • Illustration of William Pitt and Napoleon Bonaparte cutting the world
    Photo/illustration by James Gillray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
    Livestreaming

    Geopolitics and international relations (1899-2024) in Europe and beyond

    DIIS Auditorium
    Past, present and future
  • South China sea disputes, water cannon against Philippines
    Photo/illustration by China Coast Guard/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
    Livestreaming

    Deeply immersed: Taking stock of South China Sea developments

    DIIS, Auditorium
    Viewed as an important strategic waterway from a regional and global perspective, the South China Sea has long constituted a critical arena for various maritime and territorial disputes that are now resurfacing.
  • shepherds walking in Africa
    Photo/illustration by Mikkel Funder
    Webinar

    Governing climate change adaptation: Lessons from the ground

    Online via Zoom
    How should climate change adaptation be governed? This webinar examines how climate change adaptation policies and projects govern mobility, land rights and finance in the African context, and what the lessons are for adaptation governance.
  • Solar cells in Niger
    Photo/illustration by Joerg Boethling / Alamy Stock Photo
    Livestreaming

    How can finance for climate change adaptation be spent more effectively?

    DIIS Auditorium
    The seminar analyses the institutional architecture of how and where finance for climate change adaptation is spent and which route of transfer it follows from national to local levels
  • Village overview. Photo: Lu Chi.
    Fieldwork story

    Nagaland fieldwork

    First visit to Machi village on the India-Myanmar border. Written by Lu Chi
  • Helene Maria Kyed and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen share MyClimate research findings at Folkemødet in Denmark
    Research findings

    How does violent conflict affect climate change dynamics?

    Helene Maria Kyed shares MyClimate research findings at Folkemødet in Denmark
  • Livestreaming

    Somali diaspora humanitarianism in complex crises

    DIIS Auditorium
    When disaster strike, diaspora groups are often first responders and remain engaged during lengthy and complex crises. Join this roundtable where we discuss practices, possibilities and pitfalls
  • Blinken og Lavrov corona greeting
    Photo/illustration by Pool/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
    Webinar

    The Arctic Council in the shadow of the War in Ukraine

    Online via Zoom
    This webinar brings together officials and experts from Denmark, Greenland, Norway and Finland to discuss the current and future state of the Arctic Council following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
  • Poster - seminar In search of a new social order
    Livestreaming

    In search of a new social order - North-South learnings

    DIIS Auditorium
    How to develop societies that benefit the weakest sections in the Global North as well as in the Global South? What are the possibilities of anti-capitalist democratic development?
  • Drought in Somalia Dead animal because of climate change
    Photo/illustration by ICRC, Taaxta Ismail
    Livestreaming

    No climate security without human security: Insights from Africa’s climate hotspots

    DIIS Auditorium
    This seminar brings together scholars and practitioners to discuss pathways for a broadened climate security agenda on fragile states centered on addressing livelihood and security needs of populations
  • flooded homes within a village after the River Nile broke the dykes in Jonglei State, South Sudan, October 5, 2020.
    Photo/illustration by Andreea Campeanu/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
    Livestreaming

    Resistance in the 21st century

    DIIS Auditorium
    Defying the state in theory and practice
  • Jason Box
    Photo/illustration by Jason Box

    The Greenland ice sheet and our planetary future

    DIIS Auditorium
    Join us for an expedition exploring the science and global politics of vanishing ice, from Greenland to COP27, with famous glaciologist Jason Box
  • Tank i en skov i Ukraine
    Photo/illustration by kibri_ho / Shutterstock.com
    Webinar

    Protecting the environment in times of armed conflict

    Online via Zoom
    In late 2022, the UN General Assembly is expected to adopt a set of guiding principles for the Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict (PERAC). This webinar will present and discuss the principles as well as the problems relating to their implementation. We have invited three organizations to identify key issues in moving this agenda forward
  • fire in australian forrest because of climate change
    Photo/illustration by Matt Palmer on Unsplash
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    Development challenges in a changing climate

    DIIS, auditorium
    Insights from DIIS' latest research on development efforts and challenges across the globe - and their interactions with increasingly widespread and acute climate change impacts
  • nuclear energy
    Photo/illustration by Nicolas HIPPERT on Unsplash
    Webinar

    The future of nuclear energy in the Baltic Sea Region

    Online via Zoom
    This webinar invites four experts on nuclear energy from Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Germany to discuss the future of nuclear energy in the respective countries of the Baltic Sea
  • Dødt dyr pga. tørke
    Photo/illustration by ICRC / Yazdi, Pedram
    Livestreaming

    Loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change

    DIIS Auditorium
    At this seminar, we assess recent developments in loss and damage policy, research and practice to identify possible ways forward towards COP27 and beyond
  • Nuclear disarmament demonstration
    Photo/illustration by RobertoBarcellona / Shutterstock
    Livestreaming

    Nuclear war and the future prospects of nuclear disarmament

    Five prominent international experts offer their reflections on the threat of nuclear war and the prospects of nuclear arms reductions
  • Armed_Islamist_fighters_race_near_the_Mauritania-Mali_border-photo-Jemal-Ould-Mohamed-Oumar
    Photo/illustration by Jemal Ould Mohamed Oumar via Wikimedia Commons copyright license
    Call for papers

    Call for papers for conference on Natural Resource Management and Conflict in Africa

    We invite abstracts and papers that are interdisciplinary and oriented towards providing unique perspectives on natural resource management and conflict in Africa.
  • Migrants on a truck
    Photo/illustration by ICRC / Therrien, François
    Livestreaming

    Climate change is not the cause, migration not the problem

    Auditorium
    Climate change is often seen as causing migration. This excludes the many other causes of, and responsibilities for, crises that follow climate-change. Join us for this seminar where expert Jesse Ribot offers an insight into the multiple causes producing precarity and shaping migration in Senegal
  • Soil erosion in the Upper West Region, Ghana
    Photo/illustration by Nauja Kleist
    Livestreaming

    Climate change and human mobility

    DIIS, Auditorium
    How is climate change and mobility linked and how do people cope through moving or staying? These are some of the questions four researchers discuss based on their research at this seminar
  • Mining machinery in Greenland
    Photo/illustration by Raelene Goddard / Alamy Stock Photo
    Webinar

    Chinese involvement in the Arctic minerals sector

    What motivates Chinese companies - and their Western counterparts?
  • Volunteers plant trees in Thailand
    Photo/illustration by Sura Nualpradid / Shutterstock.com
    Livestreaming

    Beyond green grabbing: rights, governance and nature-based solutions in the Global South

    Auditorium, DIIS
    This seminar will discuss how the rights and benefits of indigenous people and local communities can be secured in nature-based solutions
  • report from DIIS with man sailing in a boat in Africa
    Photo/illustration by Eddie Gerald, Alamy Stock Photo (background photo)
    Webinar

    Report launch: Devolved finance and governance of climate change adaptation

    Online via Zoom
    At this webinar, we launch a new DIIS report that examines issues of devolved adaptation governance in depth. Hear authors present highlights from the report as well as national and international perspectives from experts working with devolved adaptation finance
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    CCRI - Climate Change and Rural Institutions

    "Climate Change and Rural Institutions" was a four-year multi-partner research programme, coordinated by DIIS in collaboration with partners in Nepal, Vietnam, Uganda and Zambia. The programme...

  • Global Day of Actio
    Photo/illustration by Friends of the Earth International copyright license

    DIIS Climate Collaboration

    Global challenges require global collaboration. In recognition of this, DIIS works closely with a range of national and international partners in our climate change research. Apart from projects...

  • Governing Adaptation Finance for Transformation, GAP

    Governing Adaptation Finance for Transformation (GAP)

    GAP is a research programme analysing the institutional architecture of how and where finance for climate change adaptation is spent and which route of transfer it follows from national to local...

  • Photograph: Central Ethiopia, Neil Webster

    Governing Climate Mobility

    The Governing Climate Mobility programme (GCM) examines how governance contexts influence mobility options and decisions in areas affected by climate change. Development literature and...

  • Timber Rush – Private forestry on village land. Photo by Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

    Timber Rush – Private forestry on village land

    Timber Rush investigates the scale and drivers of the current investments in land and timber in Tanzania, testing the hypothesis that investments are first and foremost driven by domestic factors...