change has catastrophic consequences for what is already a very vulnerable continent. The negative consequences of the rich countries' resource consumption for the poor countries were hotly debated at the UN climate summit COP15, and there was general consensus that the rich countries must provide compensation. "Consequently, Denmark will spend DKK 1.2 billion of its foreign aid funding to counter this," declared the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy and Minister for Gender Equality Lykke Friis together with the Danish Minister for Development Søren Pind at a recent meeting at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Life Sciences.

A report just published by the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation on distance learning at LIFE - Faculty of Life Sciencesat University of Copenhagen concludes ...

"Development cooperation can play an important role in ensuring that the poorest countries will benefit from climate change funding," says Olof Drakenberg, policy analyst at the Environmental Economics Unit at the School ...

Although agriculture, particularly in the developing world, is often associated with massive deforestation, scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre demonstrated today, in a study using detailed satellite imagery, that ...

(AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed ...

Every summer, tens of thousands of people across Australia revel in live outdoor music, staying for a day or pitching their tents for a weekend. When the