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Climate change and environment

The debate on climate change is often portrayed as a battle between believers and deniers, but in many ways the real challenge lies in getting the believers to act. This requires good solutions and an understanding of the social, economic and political processes that constrain and shape these solutions.

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Livestreaming is only for sign ups

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mining in Congo
    Photo/illustration by Erberto Zani / Alamy Stock Photo
    Livestreaming

    The dirty side of the green transition

    DIIS Auditorium
    Extractive industries in the Anthropocene
  • Skitse illustration af energiøen i Danmark
    Photo/illustration by Energistyrelsen
    Webinar

    Ways out of the energy crisis?

    Attend via Zoom
    How may the green transition alter energy security balance in the Baltic Sea region?
  • Kenya
    Photo/illustration by Mikkel Funder

    Rights and resilience

    DIIS Auditorium
    Exploring the links between climate change adaptation and land rights
  • west africa
    Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly Filbert
    Webinar

    West Africa Perspectives

    Online via Zoom
    It matters how the dynamics of West Africa are discussed. Join this webinar to understand why, and hear more about appropriate responses to some of the main challenges that the region is facing.
  • Pexels. Jens Mahnke.
    Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license
    Blogs

    Reports from the field: Join DIIS’ partners on fieldwork in Ghana

    In two blog posts Professor Dzodzi Tsikata, Director at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, and Deborah Atobrah, a Senior Research Fellow at the same place, provide us with a snapshot into the research carried out as part of the 5-year programme, Domestic Security Implications of Peacekeeping in Ghana (D-SIP).
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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...

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