COP30 warm-up event

Warm up billede

From 10 to 21 November 2025, Brazil will host the UN Climate Change Conference, COP30, in the city of Belém. The conference takes place at a crucial moment for the global endeavour to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Please join us to hear about what to expect from the conference and hope for.

Please register for the warm-up event - Deadline 15 October.

Program

15:00 – 15:05

Welcome

Dean Bo Jellesmark Thorsen opens the event (Faculty of SCIENCE)
15:05 – 15:15

Setting the scene
What is COP30 all about?

Professor Katherine Richardson (Globe Institute)
15:15 – 16:00

Needs, expectations and hopes
What key themes need to be in focus, and what to expect and hope for considering state of things, challenges and opportunities?

  • Deputy Director Ulrich Bang (Danish Chamber of Commerce)
  • International Director Jarl Krausing (CONCITO)
  • Professor Peter Ditlevsen (Physics of Ice Climate and Earth (PICE) group, Niels Bohr Institute)
  • Professor Lars Tønder (Centre for Sustainability & Society (SUSY), Department of Political Science)
  • Professor Joanna Rejman (NIVI Research Center, Department of Immunology and Microbiology)
16:00 – 16:40

Health, food and climate justice
Three research perspectives

  • Professor Flemming Konradsen (Chief Scientific Officer for Health, Novo Nordisk Foundation)
  • Professor Wusheng Yu (Department of Food and Resource Economics)
  • Associate Professor & Director Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen (Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE)
16:40 – 17:20

Implementation, economy and governance
Three research perspectives

  • Professor Michele Betsill (Department of Political Science)
  • Professor Lars Gårn Hansen (Department of Food and Resource Economics)
  • Associate Professor Beatriz Martinez Romera (Head of Centre for Climate Change Law and Governance)
17:20 – 18:00 Networking