DIIS researches how climate and natural resources are handled locally and internationally, and the implications for human security, countries’ development and international politics.
Despite progress made over the last decades, millions of people around the world still do not have access to safe drinking water on a sustainable basis. This DIIS comment points to four factors which pose a threat to a Water for All vision coming true – and to what governments and aid agencies should do at Rio+20
Denmark takes over the European Union presidency for six months from 1 January 2012. The Danish government should use this opportunity to play an active role in promoting the sustainable production and utilization of biofuels by pushing for the use of stricter biofuel sustainability standards that give commitments to rural development and smallholder business models and that take into account direct and indirect land use change