Klimahistorier
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03.10.2025
Vi Kører Grønt 2025 – let's break the record again this year – updated 22 October
SDU is once again participating in Vi Kører Grønt (We Drive Green), Odense Municipality's annual campaign that focuses on green and active transport habits to and from work. The campaign takes place from 27 October to 21 November 2025 (weeks 44-47).
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05.09.2025
From full bloom to autumn – and Christmas gifts can once again support biodiversity at SDU
You may remember the story from the spring, when the lawn at the administration building at SDU in Odense was transformed into a flowerbed.
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20.06.2025
Strong commitment to SDU Green Lab
At the University of Southern Denmark, the SDU Green Lab project is experiencing great momentum. The certifications and the derived benefits in SDU's laboratories have been well anchored in the organisation with the participation of students, researchers and the Central Administration. There is currently a waiting list to work with sustainable optimisation, which has resulted in many great certifications.
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06.06.2025
Become a climate ambassador at SDU
– and put climate on the agenda where you work.
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23.05.2025
The Seabed is Breathing. If We Listen, We Can Learn About the Future’s Climate
At the bottom of the world’s deep oceans, the sediments breathe — a quiet yet vital process that shapes everything from climate to biodiversity. Wenjie Xiao is working to understand how this affects our planet — and what it might reveal about the climate of the future.
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21.05.2025
Why did the grass disappear?
You may have wondered why an excavator recently removed large sections of the lawn at the administration building at SDU in Odense? Here is the explanation.
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09.05.2025
Train to Stockholm – a step towards more sustainable work-related trips
Six employees from SDU chose rails over boarding zones and baggage carousels when travelling to a professional event in Sweden – and discovered a climate-friendly travel option with no stress and room for contemplation.
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30.04.2025
Not surprising – but disappointing!
The new climate policy of the United States is not surprising – but disappointing. As a university, we must continue to contribute important climate knowledge and to work purposefully to reduce SDU’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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26.03.2025
SDU’s climate initiative is a great success
The SDU Climate Cluster (SCC) has gained momentum during its first year of existence. Many exciting projects have been initiated, funded by large EU grants. This provides an optimal foundation for acting as an academic catalyst for researching and implementing specific measures in society that will benefit a more sustainable future. It’s about knowledge for change. Today, SCC manages external grants totalling more than DKK 300 million. The latest EU project amounts to DKK 212 million.
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20.03.2025
Danish researchers help set world record: Transparent solar cells could turn future buildings into power plants
An international research project involving the University of Southern Denmark has developed transparent solar cells with record-breaking efficiency. These new windows allow light to pass through while simultaneously generating electricity—a technology that could transform buildings in cities worldwide.
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18.12.2024
New climate plan in 2025–2027
SDU will continue its targeted efforts to reduce the University’s greenhouse gas emissions. SDU’s management has therefore approved a more ambitious climate plan (2.0) for the period 2025–2027, which will replace SDU’s previous climate plan (1.0) for the period 2022–2024.
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06.12.2024
We Go Green - the winners are announced
We Go Green 2024 was a record year. Almost twice as many people participated in the campaign in 2024 as in 2023.
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26.11.2024
The success of the Roman Empire is also climate history
Professor Jesper Majbom Madsen from the Department of Culture and Language has received over DKK 3 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark for an interdisciplinary project on the impact of climate change on the political development of the Roman Empire. The project is carried out in close collaboration with Professor Sebastian Mernild, head of the SDU Climate Cluster.
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25.10.2024
SDU’s interdisciplinary climate initiative is good business
We know it all too well. Something has changed. Through the media, we witness extreme weather events every day around the globe, including in Denmark. We have realised that the climate crisis requires that we must also change ourselves. Learn to do things in new ways. The only question is, how?
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12.04.2024
New PhD projects in SDU Climate Cluster
Public support for climate solutions, energy savings in sports facilities, more efficient PtX, increased CO2 absorption in the oceans and better utilization of land areas are the topics of the new PhD projects supported by SDU Climate Cluster.
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22.03.2023
SDU’s new elite centres will help solve climate challenges
The first two of a total of five elite centres have been designated at the SDU Climate Cluster. The two new research centres focus on nature-based solutions and solar energy, respectively. The remaining three centres will be designated this summer.
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01.03.2023
The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) - WildDrone
sUAS News
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06.02.2023
Student satellites can contribute with important knowledge in the fight against climate change
A group of students from The University of Southern Denmark are together with students from several other Danish universities developing two satellites that can contribute to our understanding of the climate changes. Soon, they will send the first satellite into space.