Net zero: Copenhagen's failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans

The Danish capital reneged on its net zero target after an incinerator failed to secure state aid.

Inge-Merete Hougaard, Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Ecology, Lund University • conversation
Sept. 13, 2022 • ~8 min

How treaties protecting fossil fuel investors could jeopardize global efforts to save the climate – and cost countries billions

A new study adds up the potential legal and financial risk countries could face from hundreds of agreements, like those under the Energy Charter Treaty.

Kyla Tienhaara, Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment, Queen's University, Ontario • conversation
May 5, 2022 • ~9 min

Why freezing the Arctic Council is bad news for global security

The Arctic Council was the world’s primary forum for cooperation among the eight Arctic nations and a channel for diplomacy – until Russia launched a war.

Gabriella Gricius, Graduate Fellow with North American and Arctic Defense Security Network, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Colorado State University • conversation
April 20, 2022 • ~7 min

Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions instead of eyesores

Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.

Margaret Birney Vickery, Lecturer in Art History, University of Massachusetts Amherst • conversation
May 15, 2020 • ~9 min

Women tend to get diagnoses later than men

Research finds that women receive diagnoses later than men in connection with 770 types of diseases, and by an average of four years.

Cecilie Krabbe-Copenhagen • futurity
March 11, 2019 • ~4 min

‘Striking number’ of Danish households are food insecure

New research in Denmark highlights the consequences of food insecurity.

Maria Horneck-Copenhagen • futurity
Dec. 24, 2018 • ~3 min

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