Is it going too far to accuse a large number of Danish corporate executives for being irresponsible and greedy, considering the response they have given to the Danish government’s new climate plan? Well, judge for yourself when you have read
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Danes to lead by example: slash 2/5 of carbon emissions by 2020
What you see here are what I consider the two most important ‘mile-stone’ kind of climate news stories that came out of 6 August 2013. The photo of the dead polar bear speaks for itself — just like the photos
The real value of cycling
Cycling is not only good for your health, it is also profitable for society. A new study from Denmark shows that sick leave drops by one day per 1,200 kilometres travelled on the cycle track, and what is spent on
Wake-up call for European industry and media
Corporate leaders and employees in the world of business and trade, and editors and journalists in the media world: You, not the politicians, hold the key to saving this planet — and your own children — from a climate catastrophe.
World leaders: ‘No, we will not get our act together’
In this blog-post I explain why — in our efforts to create climate safety — I believe we must focus less on our politicians and more on the public, the popular and the personal. In particular the youth movements and
Danish university to train climate change graduates
Denmark has positioned itself among the first in Europe to offer comprehensive interdisciplinary graduate training in climate change. ‘Climate Change, Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation’ is the name of a new 2-year interdisciplinary MSc programme at Copenhagen University that combines both
Measuring what matters: sustainable well-being
The Happy Planet Index, allegedly ‘the leading global measure of sustainable well-being’, shows the extent to which countries deliver long, happy, sustainable lives for the people that live in them. The Danes rank as No 110 on the list of
Authors and global warming: why don’t they care?
Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder is out with a new book, ‘Anna – A fable about the Earth’s climate and environment’. Fiction, in other words, about climate change. Something we haven’t seen much of among international bestsellers til this date. But,
All Danes must see this interview
This was the tv interview which was to become my personal ‘climate wake-up call’. That moment where I realised that the world leaders are not going to solve this CO2-emission and greenhouse-gas problem for us. The interview was with the