Climate change

Mitigating emerging climate-sensitive disease vectors amongst internally displaced communities in Somaliland

Research project East Africa has experienced years of serious droughts exacerbated by the climate crisis. In Somaliland, due to climate change and the worst drought seen in 40 years, the magnitude of internally displaced people (IDP) fleeing from the drought has led ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Somalia (incl. Somaliland) Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Social Research and Development Institute (SORADI), Somaliland University of Hargeisa (UOH), Somaliland Project code: 24-02-KU Total grant: 10,393,256 DKK

Promoting Climate Change Adaptation in a context of multiple crises in Burkina Faso: The role of civil servants

Research project Final grant amount TBA The project aims at identifying and studying the potentialities for the civil servants to promote climate change adaptation and sustainable development within a context of overlapping crises. The climate crisis affects the ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Burkina Faso Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University Joseph KI-Zerbo (UJKZ), Burkina Faso Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), Burkina Faso École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France Project code: 24-03-KU

Agroforestry for People, Ecosystems and Climate (AfPEC)

Research project Background In the light of the biodiversity and climate crises, there is an urgent need for research on green solutions and not least for making science operative. Globally there has been increasing focus to agroforestry as a key tool for curbing cl ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Uganda Lead institution: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Partner institutions: Makerere University (MAK), Uganda University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Seniors without Borders (SwB), Denmark Youth Leading Environmental Change (YLEC), Uganda Forests of the World, Denmark Stjernekommunikation (STJK), Denmark Project code: 24-04-AU Total grant: 10,054,937 DKK

Plastic waste and climate change in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Research project Final grant amount TBA Bangladesh has emerged as a hub for garment production. This has contributed to job creation and reduction of poverty. The problem is, however, that it has also resulted in much plastic waste. Plastic waste that both contr ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Bangladesh Lead institution: University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark Partner institutions: BRAC University (BRACU), Bangladesh Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Project code: 24-05-SDU

Governing Nature-based Climate Solutions: Prospects for a just green transition in Kenya (JUCAN)

Research project Final grant amount TBA Nature based Climate Solutions (NbS) are, in brief, actions that aim at benefiting climate, biodiversity, and people. These solutions are high on the global and national carbon offsetting and biodiversity conservation agen ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Kenya Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN), Kenya Project code: 24-07-KU

Climate, Pollinator biodiversity, Crop Pollination and People’s Livelihoods

Research project Final grant amount TBA This project aims to design climate smart agricultural approaches to sustain crop pollinators and implement beekeeping activities that will reduce poverty and food insecurity among smallholder farmers despite future climat ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI), Tanzania Project code: 24-08-KU

Green options for sustainable exploitation of iron ore reserves in Uganda

Research project Final grant amount TBA Uganda has enormous unexploited iron ore reserves. In Uganda’s Vision 2040, the steel industry is identified as a key sector that can drive the country to become an upper-middle-income economy by 2040, while reducing pover ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Uganda Lead institution: Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark Partner institutions: Makerere University (MAK), Uganda Science, Technology and Innovation Secretariat (STI-OP), Uganda Project code: 24-09-DTU

Climate change mitigation in agroforest landscapes through sustainable sourcing policies (CAFSUS)

Research project The sustainable development goal 15.2 calls for global action to end deforestation and restore degraded forests, which is key to reducing the adverse impacts of climate events especially in low-income countries. A recently issued EU deforestation reg ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Vietnam Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: The National Economics University (NEU), Vietnam Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN), Vietnam University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Vietnam Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam University of Sydney, Australia Project code: 24-M07-KU Total grant: 10,000,000 DKK

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